Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.

The European Parliament can exercise its power only if citizens feel represented there.

European citizens particularly in peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain are anxious.

But not all European citizens are practicing Christians. Many are not Christians at all.

With its ten new members, the European Union comprises 25 countries and 453 million citizens.

Energy can be a key driver of European competitiveness and the transition to a low carbon economy, benefiting European businesses and citizens alike.

AMSTERDAM Most European citizens (for example, more than 60 in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the European Union.

Perhaps most important, they have undermined the basis on which political union rests namely, persuading European Union citizens to identify with the European idea.

The above allowances are also granted to citizens of the member States of the European Union as well as to the citizens of the countries of the European Economic Area (law 2819 2000, Article 11) who reside in Greece.

Moreover, in 2006, 57 of European citizens declared themselves ready to move abroad for professional reasons.

Low income citizens of any member state of the European Union are entitled to legal assistance.

A comparative constitutional law survey had shown that many European constitutions reserved the same constitutional rights to their citizens as the Greek Constitution did to its citizens.

No surprise, then, that many EU citizens refuse, or at least hesitate, to embrace the European cause.

As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.

Only a new European debate that includes both Europe s citizens and its institutions can combat alter Europeanism effectively.

By contrast, turning creditor country citizens tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries debts would undermine European cohesion.

It is unimportant that many European Muslims are just as disenchanted and secular as their non Muslim fellow citizens.

Simply put, it places the interests of Europe's citizens more than ever at the heart of the European Union's activities.

Energy can be a key driver of European competitiveness and the transition to a low carbon economy, benefiting European businesses and citizens alike. But realizing this promise requires European leaders to provide a vision and act decisively now.

As a result, roughly 400,000 European scholars currently reside in the US, and almost 60 of European citizens who received doctorates in US from 1998 to 2001 chose to remain there.

In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point.

Indeed, with two thirds of member states and a majority of European citizens supporting the Treaty, it cannot simply be abandoned.

Having promised that rapid consolidation would be good for growth, and having delivered recession, the European Union has disappointed its citizens.

As of 2007, nearly 92 of the population had Belgian citizenship, and other European Union member citizens account for around 6 .

June 20 Boxer Rebellion Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.

It is hard for Americans, whose world series are essentially domestic affairs, to understand the emotions engendered in European citizens when their nations compete for the European soccer championship every four years.

In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point. A citizens' initiative of this kind will require one million signatures, obtained in different countries.

Severe economic distress and political pressure are buffeting relationships among citizens, sovereign states, and supranational institutions such as the European Central Bank.

The Council, meanwhile, appears to anticipate the European Parliament s future upper house, with the lower house already elected by all EU citizens.

If European governments today distance themselves from America, as their citizens frequently demand, they will both antagonize and further weaken the US.

Citizens of the European Union, including those of the UK, have the right to live and work in any EU member state.

In relation to the European regional instruments, some States argue that national minorities only comprise groups composed of citizens of the State.

Many citizens of France s 24 partners in the European Union, or of states that aspire to enter the EU soon, are angry indeed, indignant at France s rejection of the European Union s constitutional treaty.

In fact, a majority of Europe s citizens prefer that European forces be deployed only for non combat missions. And, so far, virtually all European military operations have been aimed at evacuating European nationals, delivering humanitarian aid, or maintaining peace in the aftermath of conflict.

In the midst of a financial crisis, it seems unbelievable that European citizens will bear the financial burden of paying off China and India.

Beyond economics, many observers noted that European Union citizens would accept tight monetary bonds only if they were participating in a shared political community.

Indeed, the older and more embedded democracy is in European countries, the more skeptical are their citizens towards the claims of the constitutional treaty.

Perhaps understandably, most citizens of West European states accustomed to the political stability and economic prosperity of the last several decades do not want to give up the benefits that the European integration process has brought to them.

What makes this desolate economic landscape even gloomier is the striking inability of European leaders to explain what has happened and is happening to their citizens.

Most European leaders are not as practiced in the art of deception as the Bush administration they have greater difficulty hiding the numbers from their citizens.

Long struggling European citizens especially the long term unemployed have yet to gain any sustained benefit from the austerity measures to which they have been subjected.

A process of escalating alienation and indifference between the Union and its citizens is at work, illustrated by low turnout in the last European Parliament elections.

PARIS While Europe s citizens largely support the establishment of a common security and defense policy, most European leaders have demonstrated a clear lack of interest in creating one including at last month s European Council meeting. What accounts for this paradox?

Today, the imminent crisis is in Europe, where the European Central Bank seems to be putting its own balance sheet and those of European banks loaded with debt from Ireland, Greece, and Portugal above the well being of these countries citizens.