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Youth democratic participation
Youth democratic participation
Avatar: %{name} Julien Tate-Smith 18/02/2022 14:19
To ensure that young people can have a voice in EU policies, some citizens we spoke to suggest...
Ensuring democratic diversity and inclusivity
Ensuring democratic diversity and inclusivity
Avatar: %{name} Julien Tate-Smith 18/02/2022 14:16
What about setting up a quota-system to ensure social diversity and ethnic inclusivity. We spoke...
More effective responses from the EU
Avatar: %{name} Taskó Péter 18/02/2022 14:00
The European Union also makes recommendations and resolutions on many issues that currently do...
Strengthen decision-making process of EU by giving greater powers to EU Council president.
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 14:06
Currently, the EU is weakened by its decision-making process, as all the 27-member state leaders...
Days Revealing Conflicts. Journalism and communication for international cooperation
Avatar: %{name} Fundación Yuste 18/02/2022 14:00
—Journalism as a focus to guide the policies and actions of both public administrations and...
Establish a “Standing Committee for Our Future”, based on a new European Parliament Committee and a Citizens’ Convention
Avatar: %{name} Mouvement européen 18/02/2022 11:53
Projecting itself into its future and drawing it together among Europeans must be the subject of...
Opting for regional constituencies in the European elections in France
Avatar: %{name} Mouvement européen 18/02/2022 11:52
It is at the level of regional constituencies of European size recently created in France...
Encourage the election of leading candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) to the Presidency of the Commission
Avatar: %{name} Mouvement européen 18/02/2022 11:50
The Heads of State and Government are free to agree on the personality they wish to propose for...
Ensuring transparency of European decisions (in the Council and in the “committees” chaired by the Commission)
Avatar: %{name} Mouvement européen 18/02/2022 11:45
The Council of Ministers must debate and vote in public for its entire legislative work, in...
Giving Members of the European Parliament more powers to carry the votes of their constituents more effectively
Avatar: %{name} Mouvement européen 18/02/2022 11:37
The only EU institution whose members have been directly elected by Europeans since 1979, the...
Create different levels of EU membership
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 10:54
It is increasingly becoming obvious that some member states are simply not interested in an...
Replace all unanimity rules with qualified majority voting
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 10:35
Democratic governments normally operate under majority voting processes, and using unanimity...
Stop unanimity rule under article 7 of Lisbon Treaty (TUE)
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 10:25
It is fundamental that the EU’s laws should be adhered to, otherwise the whole EU venture becomes...
Clarify the competencies (powers) of the EU between member states and Brussels
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 10:14
The Lisbon treaty attempts to set competencies decided at member state level and Brussels in TFUE...
Independence right via internal,enlargement
Avatar: %{name} ciscle 18/02/2022 10:11
Any region or nation inside EU has the right to decide his future in order to protect his...
Build a real democratic European government by replacing EU commission & Council
Avatar: %{name} CLIVE BEVERLEY HOLE 18/02/2022 09:57
The current EU institutional framework is based on the original Iron & Coal Community...
Improvement of democratic systems
Avatar: %{name} Matilde 18/02/2022 08:46
Most European countries have adopted democratic systems of government. This happened in the...
Send me a letter, please...
Avatar: %{name} António Rede 17/02/2022 23:03
I would like to receive an EU letter sent to all European citizens, with the definition and...
The European History of the past tells us all about this present!
Avatar: %{name} António Rede 17/02/2022 20:52
European democracy? Manipulation of consciences and creation of dreams is the only common thing I...
The Council should be transformed in a Senate for a second reading of legislation and final decision by the EP.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 18:01
The practice of last years has led the Union to an unbalance of institutions in favor of the...
Qualified or hyperqualified majority for decisions where now unanimity is required.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 18:00
Issues regarding the rule of law, foreign policy, taxation, social affairs and even education...
Presidencies of the European Commission and the European Council should fuse.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 17:58
The EU looks very weak in front of the world powers with the present fragmentation or even...
The president of the European Commission should be directly elected by the citizens among candidates proposed by European parties.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 17:56
The current situation makes the citizens think that their voice is not heard.
Citizens should have the right to be heard in EP commissions if a number of signatures in a number of countries is collected.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 17:54
This should be part of a more advanced European democracy,
European referenda should be possible.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 17:53
Decisions on a joint issue for the 27 call naturally for referenda if the voice of citizens looks...
COFE for All in Occitania: Coffee'COFE: Associative coffee Le Lézard Céret
Avatar: %{name} Claire Sarda-Vergès 17/02/2022 16:39
For an Audiovisual Information Service on the European Union accessible to all Strengthening the...
COFE for all in Occitanie to meet young people: Coffee'COFE: Rotary Club Nîmes
Avatar: %{name} Claire Sarda-Vergès 17/02/2022 16:32
We need to get out of unanimity, draw up mixed lists with several countries. Be able to exclude a...
Changing Article 2 of the EU Treaty
Avatar: %{name} PES Women 17/02/2022 16:00
We propose to expend the list of the Union's values of the Article 2 of the Treaty of the...
Strengthening the role of the Regions in the European Union
Avatar: %{name} Dries Bergen 17/02/2022 15:15
The Belgian Länder should be given more opportunities to play a role in the decision-making of...
‘It shall not be made of one’: reflection on the European Union with the horizon at the Conference on the Future of Europe.
‘It shall not be made of one’: reflection on the European Union with the horizon at the Conference on the Future of Europe.
Avatar: %{name} Andrés González Montero 17/02/2022 14:56
The CoFoE is an exercise of participatory and deliberative democracy that aims to relaunch the...
Establish international family encounters linked to family education as a support goal
Avatar: %{name} Christian Möller 17/02/2022 12:56
In all EU countries, families form the foundation of the members. Families reflect not only the...
European citizens should be able to vote in European, national, local elections or referenda wherever they are.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 11:08
Some countries prevent their nationals to vote depending on their location at the moment of voting.
The number of members of the EP should be reduced and they should meet in a single place, be it Brussels or Strasbourg.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:56
People have difficulties understanding the cost of the way the EP works.
The number of members of the EP should be reduced and they should meet in a single place, be it Brussels or Strasbourg.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:56
People have difficulties understanding the cost of the way the EP works.
Transnational lists should be allowed for the next EP elections.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:54
Those called European parties are the moment an addition of national parties with the same...
A common electoral law for the European Parliament is needed ASAP.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:53
At the moment elections are held under national provisions that sometimes prevent a proper...
A serious push is needed to have European media to inform the public about European issues.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:48
European TVs, press, radio, social media are inexistent or not reaching a broad audience....
The platform of the Conference, or something equivalent, should become permanent.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:47
Europeans need a channel to convey their ideas and initiatives that until now don´t have a proper...
Embassies of member states in another member state could become consulates, underlining the common European identity.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:45
Specific intra-European issues could be dealt with by the Commissioner in charge of Internal...
On top of the existing “European company” modality for businesses, a “European association” legal form should be created by the EU for non-business ac
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:43
NGOs or non-profit activities could benefit of such status.
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European Citizens Initiatives should be simplified.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:41
Statistics show that at the moment the current ECIs are not adapted to the aim of promoting an...
Passports of EU members are purely national just sharing the color of the cover and the mention EU.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 17/02/2022 10:39
Passports of EU members are purely national just sharing the color of the cover and the mention EU.
Free speech must be the rule
Avatar: %{name} Cartier 17/02/2022 10:17
In the preliminary statements of this conference it is stated that :
"la démocratie dans l’UE et...
The EU should allocate dedicated funds to produce audio-visual content in all European languages (national and minoritized).
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 10:07
The EU should allocate dedicated funds to produce audio-visual content in all European languages,...
The European Commission needs an EU Languages Commissioner to deal with linguistic diversity, protection, and promotion.
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 09:55
The European Commission needs an EU Languages Commissioner to deal with linguistic diversity,...
The European Commission should create a European Languages Agency.
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 09:54
The European Commission should create a European Languages Agency to protect and promote all...
The European Parliament should permit the use of other languages than official ones in Plenary speeches
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 09:48
The European Parliament should permit the use of other languages than official ones in Plenary...
The EU should regulate the preconditions and set a legal framework for self-determination
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 09:34
The EU should regulate the preconditions (democratic means, internal enlargement cases, single...
The European Union must recognize the existence of European regions, peoples and nations that demand more sovereignty.
Avatar: %{name} Julie Duval 17/02/2022 09:32
European Institutions must accept that self-determination debates often inherently involve...
For a stronger Europe
Avatar: %{name} Giorgio Magri 17/02/2022 00:52
I would like Europe to finally become a federation of solidarity countries governed by a single...
Strengthening cohesion through exchange and participation
Avatar: %{name} Friedrich Naumann 16/02/2022 20:37
In addition to national or European (institutional) fora, this requires above all a European...
Introducing transnational lists and genuine lead candidates
Avatar: %{name} Friedrich Naumann 16/02/2022 20:36
Transnational lists strengthen the representative system and help make party political positions...
Strengthen the European Parliament, reduce the size of the EU Commission, make the Council of Ministers more able to act
Avatar: %{name} Friedrich Naumann 16/02/2022 20:33
It is necessary to reduce the Commission to 18 Commissioners (the Member States) on a rotational...
Democracy abolished
Avatar: %{name} Silke 16/02/2022 19:29
I live in Germany and I have to say that the situation here is becoming increasingly drastic. We...
Democracy can only exist in nation states
Avatar: %{name} MPEE Magyar Polgári Együttműködés Egyesület 16/02/2022 19:32
Democracy was created by the nation states. Remove the nation states and nothing remains but the...
National education programs should include education on European citizenship, containing history, institutions and values.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 16/02/2022 18:57
A Recommendation to member states to do so becomes urgent and the European Parliament looks like...
9th of may should be a festivity in all member states.
Avatar: %{name} AEC EURGETXO 16/02/2022 18:53
This date, like the European flag and the Hymn to Joy, is a powerful symbolic tool to make...
No European sovereignty or democracy without an autonomous European defence and a true common foreign policy
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 16/02/2022 18:32
To exist and weigh in world affairs for the benefit of its citizens, the EU must speak with one...
The EU should push for all member states to provide the right to vote at 16 for all elections.
Avatar: %{name} European Free Alliance 16/02/2022 17:51
Because they make up the next generation and will shape our future society, the needs and wishes...
Europe of Peoples and States
Avatar: %{name} GEORGES 16/02/2022 17:41
My suggestion is to create a second chamber composed of elected members of the National...
The EU and its member states should make use of deliberative citizens' participation methods to encourage dialogue and overcome policy deadlocks.
Avatar: %{name} European Free Alliance 16/02/2022 17:39
Recent exercises in participative democracy, like the Citizens’ Assembly in Scotland and the...
For a clarity mechanism on the right to self-determination
For a clarity mechanism on the right to self-determination
Avatar: %{name} Jaume Bardolet 16/02/2022 16:53
The EU's main strength is its historical legitimacy, its ability to overcome internal conflicts...
More Bottom-Up Initiatives and Participation; Rework of Systems
Avatar: %{name} ALDA European Association for Local Democracy 16/02/2022 15:29
Citizens want more ways to be able to participate in government on the EU level. For the time...
Ensure votes for EU citizens living in other member states
Ensure votes for EU citizens living in other member states
Avatar: %{name} Sarah Morris 16/02/2022 14:14
Ensure the millions using their right to freedom of movement, living in another EU member state,...
A more integrated Europe
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:26
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Strengthen European identity
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:24
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Making the achievements of the EU more visible to citizens
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:23
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Strengthen the voice of youth in EU politics and the institutions
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:21
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Youth-based review for all new EU policy proposals
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:20
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Strengthen democracy itself
Avatar: %{name} The 25 Percent 16/02/2022 12:17
This idea summarises part of the input collected within The 25 Percent project, which aims to...
Abolish the European Commission
Avatar: %{name} brainfart 16/02/2022 11:00
The European Commission holds too much power and is not directly elected by the people and should...
Let’s free the borders
Avatar: %{name} Silvana 16/02/2022 08:36
Let us free the borders between Member States, freedom of movement without greenpass. Let’s...
Constitutiveness of the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reform of electoral legislation aimed at equality of the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Avatar: %{name} Matej Lozančić 15/02/2022 23:09
It is important to emphasise the necessity of changing the electoral law in Bosnia and...
Protecting our savings and our economy by completing the Banking Union
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 19:04
The Banking Union was created during the debt crisis in Europe, to integrate the EU’s financial...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Avatar: %{name} Ante 15/02/2022 18:59
Make it possible for Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina to elect their own representatives at the...
Making the EU budget for Europeans work: a Budget Union
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 18:25
More than 70 % of the EU budget revenue comes from Member States based on their gross national...
Proposal from the Former Members Association of the European Parliament (FMA) to the Conference on the Future of Europe
Proposal from the Former Members Association of the European Parliament (FMA) to the Conference on the Future of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Former Members 15/02/2022 18:16
The Spitzenkandidaten system should be enforced, first and foremost by Parliament itself. The...
Protecting our core values: democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 18:14
The EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the...
Proposal from the Former Members Association of the European Parliament (FMA) to the Conference on the Future of Europe
Proposal from the Former Members Association of the European Parliament (FMA) to the Conference on the Future of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Former Members 15/02/2022 18:14
EU democracy should be strengthened at all levels (local, regional and national), while...
Proposal from the Former Members Association of the European Parliament (FMA) to the Conference on the Future of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Former Members 15/02/2022 18:11
We believe that the Conference should concentrate on broad questions related to European...
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy. 5
Avatar: %{name} Saccà 15/02/2022 17:47
These changes are essential to support European sovereignty at international level and to free up...
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy. 4
Avatar: %{name} Saccà 15/02/2022 17:44
The logic of 3 is imposed in continuity with Maastricht and with the path of Peace of a common...
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy. 3
Avatar: %{name} Saccà 15/02/2022 17:42
We have the sure source of having more own resources, so, as with the Maastricht deficit, we...
Top candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for a more democratic European Commission
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 17:40
Currently (Art. 17(7) TEU), the European Council (heads of government, representing the Member...
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy. 2
Avatar: %{name} Saccà 15/02/2022 17:36
The pandemic, New Generation E.U., health policy and sovereignty show that the Union of Small...
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy.
‘Quo vadis Europa?’; EU Governance, Single Market and External Challenges: own resources, fiscal dumping, social dumping and democracy.
Avatar: %{name} Saccà 15/02/2022 17:28
The Single Market, governed by the Single European Act, the first reform of the Treaties, gives...
For genuine European elections, EU-wide transnational voter lists
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 17:12
The European elections are still only national elections juxtaposed in 27 Member States. MEPs are...
A more democratic and efficient EU with a stronger Parliament
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 16:44
Although the most democratic institution in the EU, the European Parliament (EP) has no...
To be stronger together, a European Democratic Federation
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 16:11
European integration, born to bring peace, prosperity and social justice to Europeans on a...
Reforms needed for European sovereignty
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 15:43
European sovereignty must be created in areas where national policies can no longer be effective....
No European democracy with veto Right Direct powers in the European Parliament over the budget and foreign policy
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 15:35
The current treaties require unanimity in two crucial areas: the budget and foreign policy. The...
A stronger Parliament for a better Europe
Avatar: %{name} Claudia SALVI 15/02/2022 15:12
Students in class IV AFM of the I.I.S. “A. Volta” of Nicosia presented, as part of the “Europe I...
No real European democracy without an autonomous European fiscal power
Avatar: %{name} François MENNERAT 15/02/2022 15:06
The creation of a fiscal power has always coincided with the founding act of a political...
Manifesto of GEM± proposals to strengthen multilingualism in the EU
Avatar: %{name} Pour une gouvernance européenne multilingue 15/02/2022 14:30
For European Multilingual Governance, ASBL Für eine Gemeinsame Europapolitik der Mehrsprachigkeit...
State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Avatar: %{name} Manuela Göbbel 15/02/2022 10:48
Attached is the resolution of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament on the Future of Europe of 2...
Directly Elected Commissioners
Avatar: %{name} David Roden 15/02/2022 09:22
1/ all commissioner candidates stand for election in their member state - the commissioner so...
Upgrading multilingualism in the EU
Avatar: %{name} Franca 14/02/2022 19:49
GEM+ Manifesto For European Multilingual Governance, ASBL Für eine Gemeinsame Europapolitik der...
Strasbourg call for the Conference on the Future of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Agora Strasbourg Capitale européenne 14/02/2022 17:58
The Conference on the Future of Europe was officially launched in Strasbourg, the place of...
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