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strengthening the legitimacy of dutch eu policy: conclusions and recommendations their own accord to the embedding of Europe in the Netherlands; eu policy is often too marginal a part of their regular activities, and those organisations that are concerned with Europe are currently not sufficiently focused on the national political arena. Consequently, politicians and policy makers are crucial when it comes to leading the political and social embedding of the eu at the national level. It is only if they take on this role themselves, that the news media and civil society will subsequently become mobilised. And only then will things take a turn for the better so that the media and civil society organisations will provide more effective links between policy makers and citizens, so that eu policy can become more firmly embedded in Dutch society. The proposals for strengthening the social embedding and legitimacy of eu policy in the Netherlands put forward in this report offer a portfolio of instruments from which politicians and policy makers may select as they deem fit. Some, like the use of red and green lines as political safeguards, transforming the Subsidiarity Committee into a prioritisation committee and strengthening the strategic role of the Prime Minister in the reiz-ea (Subcommittee currently responsible for European affairs), could be realised within a relatively short period of time. Other instruments, such as the introduction of preferenda and the creation of constitutional safeguards, are more radical in nature and require extensive political consideration and debate, partly in light of possible reforms at the eu level. Whichever combination is chosen and whichever (supplementary) sources of legitimacy are addressed, it has to be acknowledged that there are no simple remedies or quick fixes. The dynamic of European integration and the social and political changes in the Netherlands demand continuous attention for European and national processes of democratic and constitutional legitimisation. 167
ediscovering europe in the netherlands note 1. Letter to Parliament on eu Treaty amendment, from the Minister and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Parliamentary papers (Kamerstukken) II, session 2007, 21 501-20, no. 344. 168
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