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Through the reading of this book it is certainly clear by now that, among the obstacles interfering with an adequate perception of the consistency of civic activism in Europe and its role in the development of the European democratic experiment, there are two kinds of elements, namely preconceptions and legal constraints, which tend to impose themselves on reality.
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See also http://www.cittadinanzattiva.it (last access: 19th December 2008).
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The first working paper was presented in 2005: Lamanna et al. (2005).
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Further information on the European Day of Patients’ Rights can be found at the Active Citizenship Network website, in http://www.activecitizenship.net/content/blogcategory/33/78 (last access: 15th December 2008).
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These are some of the most relevant judgments of the European Court of Justice related to the issue of patients’ rights: Decker (C-120/95, 28 April 1998), Kohll (C-158/96, 28th April 1998), Geraets-Smits & Peerbooms (C-157/99, 12th July 2001), Vanbraekel (C-368/98, 12th July 2001), IKA (C-326/00, 25th February 2003), Müller-Fauré́ & van Riet (C-385/99, 13th May 2003), Inizan (C-56/01, 23rd October 2003), Leichtle (C-8/02, 18th March 2004) and Watts (C-327/04, 16th May 2005). All of that can be downloaded from the site displaying the repertoire of the European Court: http://curia.europa.eu/en/content/juris/index_rep.htm (last access: 15th December 2008).
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Moro, G. (2012). The European Civic Movement for Patients’ Rights. In: Citizens in Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1942-6_8
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