{"id":1050,"date":"2006-01-18T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/113758244930136967\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T10:48:00","slug":"113758244930136967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/113758244930136967\/","title":{"rendered":"113758244930136967"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>The European Parliament is set to vote on what to do with the constitution tomorrow &#8211; but is this just putting the cart before the horse? As <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/20700\" title=\"EU Observer - National parliaments rebuff MEPs on constitution\">national parliaments begin to work together<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eupolitix.com\/EN\/News\/200601\/e0000908-3aa0-46a0-b8ef-a6e208750719.htm\" title=\"EUPolitix - EU constitution: MEPs split on handling rejection\">MEPs try to work out the way forward<\/a>, cross-border political discussion and co-operation is taking place up top. But what about the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/articles\/2004-05-13-fredriksson-en.html\" title=\"Eurozine - Energizing the European public space\">the European public sphere<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;in the absence of a common identity, there is no true and sustainable European community. And any such common identity is vitally dependent on the existence of a pan-European public space. A European public space would be a realm in which transnational values and principles &#8211; or transnational practices if you will &#8211; can be defined, shaped and reshaped, and in which supranational political institutions can gain legitimacy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting series of articles from Eurozine are linked down the side of that article, providing a handy overview of this ongoing debate over the possibility of a truly EU-wide demos and identity, as the Austrian EU presidency kcks off its campaign to get the continent discussing precisely what it is that we all want.<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament is set to vote on what to do with the constitution tomorrow &#8211; but is this just putting the cart before the horse? As national parliaments begin to work together and MEPs try to work out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/113758244930136967\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}