caa a22 4500 378898809 CHVBK 20180305123512.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041018xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0653.1312 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0653.1312 Citizens Should Vote on Secession [Elektronische Daten] [Essi Eerola, Niku Määttänen, Panu Poutvaara] The draft treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union states that each member state may withdraw from the European Union following its own constitutional requirements. We argue that such a rule could lead into an increased use of threat of withdrawal to extract concessions in intergovernmental negotiations. This problem would be exacerbated by national electorates facing an incentive to elect more confrontational politicians. We also suggest a remedy: EU constitution should require that withdrawal from EU membership must be approved by the voters of the withdrawing member state in a referendum. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Federalism nationallicence secession nationallicence the European Union nationallicence referendum nationallicence Eerola Essi RUESG, University of Helsinki, essi.eerola@vatt.fi aut Määttänen Niku The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy and CEBR, niku.maattanen@etla.fi aut Poutvaara Panu Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), CESifo and IZA, poutvaara@ifo.de aut Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-10-18) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1312 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1312 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eerola Essi RUESG, University of Helsinki, essi.eerola@vatt.fi aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Määttänen Niku The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy and CEBR, niku.maattanen@etla.fi aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Poutvaara Panu Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), CESifo and IZA, poutvaara@ifo.de aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-10-18) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter