Iniţiativa cetăţenească europeană și virtuţile democraţiei directe sub forma e-democraţiei
European citizens’ initiative and virtues of direct democracy in the form of e-democracy

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with a new mechanism of European governance: the European citizens’ initiative that gives to minimum 1 million EU citizens from at least 7 Member States the right to make normative acts proposals to the European Commission. This mechanism, which is an instrument of direct democracy, has been introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon and regulated subsequently by the Regulation no. 211/2011. The article makes a deep analysis of this Regulation provisions and also of the contents of the citizens’ initiatives that have been materialized so far. The number of these initiatives is remarkably high, despite the restrictive requirements for their registration, but so far the Europeans have been reluctant to promote them. If this mechanism is successful, the e-democracy, as a form of direct democracy, could be a solution for expressing the will of more than 500 million EU citizens.

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