Whittling Down the Collective Interest

oleh: Merijn Chamon, Thomas Verellen

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH

Deskripsi

<p>On Friday 31 July, the Cypriot parliament voted against the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. This latest development in the ratification process of CETA illustrates perfectly how facultative mixity continuously frustrates our collective interest in seeing the development of a European public sphere by forcing the discussion on European issues in isolated national public spheres.</p>