
Jürgen Habermas: "Democracy in Europe" (2014)
Holberg Prize Talks
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Constitutional Foundations in the European Union
Citizens of the European Union are winning to share equal rights with people of future member states, he says. The best possible outcome is that citizens harmonize their two allegiances when they push ahead with the integration process as if they had participated in the constitution building process from the outset,. Nick discussions in the late 18th century had a different outcome: at the end of a rather long, fast, he said by conflicts, one which even led for a civil war, there stood the first democratically national domain in federal state.
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