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safeguards and direct citizen participation tors – in eu policy and the feeling that eu policy is just being imposed on them. Thus both instruments may not only serve to strengthen the representative and accountability dimension of legitimacy, but also, albeit in the longer term, foster processes of identification. Moreover, preferenda and constitutional safeguards are interesting for their potential to mobilise actors outside the political and administrative circuits and thus to appeal to citizens. The extensive discussions which can be awakened by preferenda may motivate interest groups to gauge the views of their supporters and to enter into debate with their members. Civil society organisations are encouraged to step outside of their one-dimensional, specialist consultations with the government at the European or national level. Politicians who take positions and enter into debates on eu issues in the context of preferenda or constitutional debates also (precisely because of the serious nature of the instruments) generate media attention. This can give rise to a catalyst effect which culminates in a major impulse for the regular politicians and policy makers to contribute to the improvement of eu policy legitimisation in the Netherlands. 117
ediscovering europe in the netherlands notes 1 The cda (Christian Democrats), pvda (Labour), vvd (Liberal) and sp (Socialist) parliamentary parties, Lower House, session 2005-2006 24 490 no. 411. 2 Decision of the European Court of Justice of 13 September 2005. 3 With the argument that accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (echr) would render a separate eu charter superfluous. In this way, the ‘danger’ that the Court in Luxembourg might expand its powers on the basis of the Charter could be averted. This would render Part II of the Constitutional Treaty unnecessary. nrc Handelsblad, Europaredactie, 10 November 2006. 4 bbc news, ‘eu constitution: British Red Lines’, 25 November 2003; ‘Britten dreigen met Veto-Grondwet’, nrc Handelsblad, 25 November 2003. 5 Nationale Conventie, Hart voor de publieke zaak 2006, p.47. 6 The Dutch ombudsman has, in this regard, suggested that better co-ordination is called for on this point. 118
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