This Staff Working Document accompanies the proposal for a Regulation on the European citizens' initiative. It synthetises the analyses that have taken place since 2015 on the current Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 on the ...

Η Συνθήκη της Λισσαβώνας, που τέθηκε σε ισχύ την 1η Δεκεμβρίου 2009, ενισχύει με τις διατάξεις της τον εκδημοκρατισμό του κοινοτικού πολιτικού συστήματος, καθώς εμπεριέχει το μεγαλύτερο μέρος των καινοτομιών που προέβλεπε ...

Democracy is one of the fundamental values on which the European Union is founded. To ensure the functioning of a representative democracy on the European level, the treaties determine that the citizens of the European ...

The European Pillar of Social Rights is about delivering new and more effective rights for citizens. It has 3 main categories: 1) equal opportunities and access to the labour market, 2) fair working conditions, 3) social ...

This paper summarises the approach taken by the European Commission during the Economic Adjustment Programmes (2010 to 2018) to address reforms to Greece’s public administration. It will argue that it was necessary to ...

The Commission is developing an indicator-based assessment framework for public administration with the intention of capturing public administrations’ strengths and weaknesses in policymaking, human resources management, ...