What Hungary’s referendum says about Europe’s politics and policymaking (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

On October 2, Hungarians were called to the ballot box to vote on the question “Do you want the European Union to be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary even without the consent of Parliament?” The referendum highlights a paradox, at the heart of many of Europe’s challenges today: Policymaking in a variety of domains increasingly takes place at the supranational level, while in the eyes of most citizens, politics still play out overwhelmingly through a national perspective. The lack of a pan-European public sphere only compounds this problem.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/10/03/what-hungarys-referendum-says-about-europes-politics-and-policymaking/