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A review of RECON’s overall performance commends the project for producing high-quality research that is of great importance for present-day Europe. It is ‘recommended that the empirical findings and the theory developed within RECON be made standard knowledge in textbooks on Europe’.

Can the nation state safeguard democracy in the age of Europeanisation and globalisation? Can democracy as such be reconstituted in Europe, and if so, at what level? How to strengthen democracy in the EU was the key question of the RECON outreach conference May 19.

The RECON project is summing up its five years of research in two outreach conferences, asking the key question: How to strengthen democracy in the EU? The first conference was held in Brussels on the 19th of May  and the other one will be held in Oslo on November 24th.