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The New Platform
Avatar: %{name} Søren Winther Lundby 20/04/2021 09:52
The next generation of the social media platforms ought to arise in the EU. In suggest The New...
Twelve ideas to improve representativeness and democracy
Twelve ideas to improve representativeness and democracy
Avatar: %{name} Laurent Marcellin 03/05/2021 23:09
Introduce bonus/malus quotas to vary the profiles (gender, age, CSP, geographical area) that are...
A European public service broadcaster
Avatar: %{name} Arne Wind 20/04/2021 12:25
The EU needs a public broadcaster/news organisation. Today, the world is seeing the EU through...
A Europe for Europeans
Avatar: %{name} Matthias Waibel 19/04/2021 21:27
1) Center the EU around Europeans. On an individual level and on a regional level. 2) EU...
Enhancing the European Focus of European Elections with Transnational Campaign Platform Requirement
Avatar: %{name} Klaus Feldmann 19/04/2021 16:30
Elections for European Parliament lack focus on Europe. They are run nationally, by national...
Increasing the participation of young people in shaping European policies
Avatar: %{name} Marco Teixeira 24/04/2021 12:40
The distancing of young people in participating in the definition of European policies, public...
Lobbying platform for a sustainable future
Avatar: %{name} Martin Jenny 19/04/2021 22:35
Currently, EU laws are heavily influenced by lobbyists commissioned by financially strong...
Strengthening subsidiarity
Avatar: %{name} Karoly Lorant 24/04/2021 18:52
Public opinion polls show that the vast majority of European citizens support European...
What the Outcome of the Citizens Consultation?
What the Outcome of the Citizens Consultation?
Avatar: %{name} Simona Bonfante 19/04/2021 21:48
The outcome of the citizens consultation held on this platform is non stated. What it will be...
Direct election of the president of the European Commission
Avatar: %{name} Jose Cruset 19/04/2021 17:01
In order to protect democracy the president of the European Commission should be voted by the...
EU ambassadors for the European idea
Avatar: %{name} Jonas Derichs 19/04/2021 18:04
European Union. What do I need that for? What’s that anyway? In this way or something, many...
Basic Points of a Constitutional Frame for Europe’s Multi-level Governance
Avatar: %{name} riccardo lala 03/05/2021 18:00
The restructuring of the European Legal Order is a very complex task, which cannot be carried out...
There should be only one advice
Avatar: %{name} Philip Hackemann 29/04/2021 15:44
The complicated nomenclature of the EU institutions confuses many people. The European Council...
Learning European languages
Avatar: %{name} Alain Girardet 19/04/2021 21:48
It must be a priority. Beyond their national language, learn at least that of neighbouring...
Making Europe a direct democracy
Avatar: %{name} Aurélien Cosma 19/04/2021 20:54
The European Union today suffers from a significant deficit in democratic representativeness....
Strengthening of subsidiarity. Making subsidiarity enforceable!
Avatar: %{name} dieter MAIER 11/05/2021 20:25
The EU should only be given tasks that the nation state can't apply. Global security policy, for...
A federal and democratic Europe
A federal and democratic Europe
Avatar: %{name} Arthur Patou 20/04/2021 10:01
History is a very interesting source of ideas and scenarios that allow us to better master our...
Democracy in Portugal? What idea?
Avatar: %{name} António Rede 30/04/2021 14:20
Ideas and denounces are in all my participations, for those who know how to read this spelling...
Role of the European Movement within the European Institutional Framework
Avatar: %{name} riccardo lala 03/05/2021 18:00
Role OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT WITHIN EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK It is several singular...
Voluntary unwinding of the EU
Avatar: %{name} Ismo Haapala 09/05/2021 17:45
European countries are mostly old nation states, with a number of new or re-entering countries in...
I propose to incorporate blockchain technology into the democratic process (i.e. in elections)
I propose to incorporate blockchain technology into the democratic process (i.e. in elections)
Avatar: %{name} Vi Jo 19/04/2021 22:52
Blockchain/DLT has many usecases, one of which is to achieve better security and verifiability in...
On the veto law
Avatar: %{name} lam UNKNOWN 20/04/2021 02:23
It's clear that the veto law is severely limiting the EU's capability to act fast. There are many...
Democratic Constitution for a European State
Avatar: %{name} Martin Göb-Fuchsberger 22/04/2021 03:09
The European Union needs to be further developed into a federal state whose constitution...
Giving the voice back to national parliaments
Giving the voice back to national parliaments
Avatar: %{name} Alonso de Mendoza 19/04/2021 17:41
Creating a forum for discussion on the future of the European Union, in which the governing...
EU institutions and decision-making radically new
Avatar: %{name} Christian Hofmann 20/04/2021 18:16
The European Commission and the EU Council are replaced by a six-monthly leadership of one or...
Security outside the European Union
Avatar: %{name} Jerónimo Sánchez Blanco 20/02/2022 19:59
Great importance was attached to the need to protect European Democracy, as indicated by the...
Highly developed platform for collecting and managing citizens’ ideas
Avatar: %{name} Luc Maltier 20/04/2021 11:04
On the same principle as this platform, create a permanent platform: * to look at the ideas...
Let’s vote for the President of the European Commission in the elections to the European Parliament (picking one from all candidates in the list)
Avatar: %{name} Carlos Buendía Hontañón 01/05/2021 18:11
I propose that: — (when?) in the elections to the European Parliament (EP). — (who?) all European...
Language as a mean to communication: Institutionalise a second language to be learned in all EU Member States
Avatar: %{name} Barbara Polak-Labit 19/04/2021 18:26
Additionally to fostering European diversity through multilingualism, a realistic mean of...
Concrete proposals for the national link with the European Parliament — following 'The Future of Europe: what role does the national parliament play?’
Avatar: %{name} Sophie Semenowicz 02/12/2021 12:14
On 29 November 2021, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Thijs Reuten, Mendeltje van Cologne and Peter Teffer,...
Appointment of committee members by Parliament
Avatar: %{name} Damien Cmoi 21/04/2021 17:20
The members of the committee must be appointed by the parliament (representative of the European...
An assembly dedicated to civil society organisations in Strasbourg.
Avatar: %{name} Julien Gastelo 20/04/2021 13:33
Democracies are at the end of their life, as civil society organisations express themselves in a...
Europe of regions not national
Europe of regions not national
Avatar: %{name} Peter Korecky 20/04/2021 15:59
A Europe of regions requires the transformation of an EU Parliament with directly elected...
We need more Democracy
Avatar: %{name} Giorgio Conticelli 01/05/2021 18:14
We need more democracy in Europe. We need a real power for the EU Parliament, with control over...
Consultative European Citizens’ Council
Avatar: %{name} DIDIER HADDAD 19/04/2021 19:12
In support of the Council of Europe, it would be important to have a consultative body composed...
European Federation
Avatar: %{name} Jean Deconick 19/04/2021 21:06
The union should be transformed into a federation. As model we can use mix of Germany and Russia....
Expel Spain from the EU because of their Police brutality in Catalonia
Avatar: %{name} Ray Neville 26/04/2021 20:40
As a committed EU supporter I do NOT want to be part of an EU that tolerates the brutal treatment...
Let's abolish the committees
Avatar: %{name} Bob Schuman 02/05/2021 17:50
Let’s discontinue the activities of the Economic and Social Committee and of the Committee of...
End with extortion and braking — end with the possibility to veto!
End with extortion and braking — end with the possibility to veto!
Avatar: %{name} Wolfgang Obermüller 22/04/2021 00:53
Europe is not able to act, at least much too much if unanimity is absolutely necessary for...
Europeans, let’s federate!
Europeans, let’s federate!
Avatar: %{name} Michel Caillouët 20/04/2021 08:44
Friends of Europe, let us federate! The challenges of 2021 and beyond: European federalism more...
Listening — but not just as part of this action!
Listening — but not just as part of this action!
Avatar: %{name} Gerhard Kuchta 09/05/2021 09:51
So positive is this action to listen to the views and suggestions of EU citizens: Listening...
European Army of Blue helmets
Avatar: %{name} Max Himmelreich 19/08/2021 01:00
No individual European Nation needs a large army. An army, yes, but not anything large enough to...
Lack of transparency
Avatar: %{name} Nathalie Konstantinovitch 20/04/2021 08:55
The dual presidency of Ursula/Charles Michel is incomprehensible to people. We would like to have...
Introduction of standard majority decision-making in foreign and security policy in the EU, unanimity only in very exceptional cases.
Avatar: %{name} Walter Pfeil 06/05/2021 13:21
The EU is an economic giant and a political dwarf. For 60 years, foreign and security policy has...
Transnational lists and vote on the same day for the European elections
Transnational lists and vote on the same day for the European elections
Avatar: %{name} Camélia Tanane 20/04/2021 00:20
The European elections should be held on the same day. But the real change is transnational...
Distance from the citizens to the EU institutions
Avatar: %{name} Andrei Popa 13/05/2021 12:53
We need to feel that Europe is more democratic. The citizens should know more about what's going...
Update of European democracy
Avatar: %{name} D.A. Forstner 10/05/2021 14:37
Hold EU choices transnationally and combine them with citien’s initiatives/questionnaires....
Direct election of the President of the Comission
Avatar: %{name} Andrea Lazzarini 19/04/2021 21:52
Each party in the European Parliament chooses its candidate in internal dialogues, and at the...
Allow EU treaty change
Allow EU treaty change
Avatar: %{name} Christiaan DE VRIES 26/04/2021 11:18
The Conference on the Future of Europe is supposed to give a new boost to the EU's democratic...
Recommendations of Pulse of Europe - Canarias
Recommendations of Pulse of Europe - Canarias
Avatar: %{name} JP Schoffer Petricek 01/05/2021 13:26
1. Extension of EU-citizens rights to participate in elections to all types of elections (incl....
Democracy in the Union
Avatar: %{name} Stefi Banszki 19/04/2021 22:39
Unfortunately, many MEPs promise beautiful ones only until they are elected. When he enters the...
Return to the Funds
Avatar: %{name} Balázs Szolomayer 22/11/2021 13:40
In my opinion, in order for the EU to work in the long term, it is necessary to return to its...
Vote Democracy (WSD)
Avatar: %{name} Ralf Schenke 05/03/2022 10:19
WSD is an alternative to the models of democracy ‘majority democracy’ and ‘consensus democracy’...
European Republic
European Republic
Avatar: %{name} Gerald-Christian Heintges 26/04/2021 16:55
The fundamental principle on which the European Union must be built in the future is equality of...
Voting for the parliament
Avatar: %{name} Andrei Popa 13/05/2021 13:27
When voting for the EU parliament, each candidate should have besides him, in the voting a...
Direct democracy — citizens at the parliamentary stage
Avatar: %{name} Yann Quintin 20/04/2021 07:37
SET a% of European parliaments reserved for randomly picked Eu citizens from each EU country....
United States of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Jochen Grade 09/05/2021 18:02
The EU’s intergovernmental organisational principle has proved to be incapable of developing...
Stop the rule that all 27 Member States must adopt a decision
Avatar: %{name} Paul Verhoeven 19/04/2021 21:53
The rule that decisions must be signed by all 27 Member States allows the smallest sleeper to...
European democracy
Avatar: %{name} Ευαγγελία Γιαννά 25/05/2021 16:48
THE NEED TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, THE PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG...
Reforming the legislative procedure
Avatar: %{name} Jan Kerschbaum 21/04/2021 21:19
Ever since the first departure from the intergovernmental model, the EU is as much a union of...
Electronic voting in the European elections: online vote, modern democracy
Electronic voting in the European elections: online vote, modern democracy
Avatar: %{name} Arnaud Sobczyk 19/04/2021 23:47
The election of representatives to the European Parliament is often shaken by voters, especially...
The opinion of the majority of citizens must be the basic criterion for defining public policy
Avatar: %{name} Michel GRIVEAU 21/04/2021 13:59
While it is important to respect the rights and aspirations of minorities, it is the opinion of...
Taking this Conference into our own hands
Avatar: %{name} Felix Strahl 20/04/2021 10:21
I know that the Council doesn't want to seriously follow up on our proposals if they concern the...
More EU Commission and EU Parliament, less Council of the European Union
Avatar: %{name} Florian Hanslik 10/05/2021 11:19
Only the Parliament and the Commission need it to strengthen the EU’s democracy. So much has been...
Improving EU communication through campaigns
Avatar: %{name} Theresa Edtstadler 26/04/2021 09:49
At the Wachau Europe Forum, over a period of one year, European issues were discussed with...
EU and communication
Avatar: %{name} JANyy Houben 11/05/2021 10:20
1.More more clearly why the EU is of vital importance in the international force field. Otherwise...
Respect. Ecoute. Exchanges
Avatar: %{name} Alain K. 25/04/2021 14:31
3 simple words, but unknown to the EU. I have already participated in forums organised by the EU...
Germany, Chancellor: in
Avatar: %{name} Dike UNKNOWN 20/04/2021 09:30
Federal Chancellor: in for Germany, DA SEIN. Both, EU + Chancellor: does not fit together and is...
Love/Hate the European Union.
Love/Hate the European Union.
Avatar: %{name} Marc Caluwaerts 01/05/2021 11:34
Many people in Europe realize that the European Union is essential in an increasingly globalized...
Democracy starts at home: Let all Europeans vote on a new European treaty
Democracy starts at home: Let all Europeans vote on a new European treaty
Avatar: %{name} Erik Schrama 01/05/2021 15:07
The EU claims to stand for democracy and human rights. The EU is also a political project aimed...
Let’s move from the European Union to a united Europe!
Avatar: %{name} Thierry Jamin 10/05/2021 03:06
After almost 30 years of existence, the European Union needs to become a new one. Today’s world...
Distribution of seats in Parliament by head count of citizens
Avatar: %{name} Rainer FASSNACHT 22/04/2021 14:58
The distribution of seats is currently based on the so-called “degressive proportionality”,...
Make our Union a Beacon of Real Democracy
Avatar: %{name} Renzo Nieland 22/04/2021 18:09
The big problem with this conference is that the institutions have no legal obligation to follow...
Strengthening Europe-wide public opinion by bridging existing language barriers
Avatar: %{name} Gerhard Kappius 26/04/2021 09:09
Communication and coexistence are still difficult in Europe: There are 24 official languages that...
Europe of the Regions
Avatar: %{name} Toni Brandt 09/05/2021 09:02
One of the guiding ideas of the EU was that it should become a “Europe of the Regions”. It was...
Strengthen deliberative democracy
Avatar: %{name} Silke TOENSHOFF 18/05/2021 20:17
Develop a permanent mechanism based on interaction with citizens and deliberative democracy, make...
Confederal Europe — a democratic alternative for sui generis limbo?
Confederal Europe — a democratic alternative for sui generis limbo?
Avatar: %{name} Erik Schrama 20/04/2021 11:57
Whether you are for or against European unity, we all agree that the E.U. cannot continue as it....
Strengthening the transnational character of the European elections
Avatar: %{name} Filippo 21/01/2022 22:31
I propose deliberative consultations and referendums at European level on matters of common...
How can you believe in democracy and live in Portugal?
Avatar: %{name} António Rede 29/04/2021 21:14
When the institutions of a country do not even respond to the many laws adopted by successive...
EU-Wide Referendums on Future Enlargements of the Union
EU-Wide Referendums on Future Enlargements of the Union
Avatar: %{name} Paolo Girolami 21/04/2021 00:02
New accession treaties should only be ratified after holding a EU-wide referendum on the...
A new supply & demand model for the media
Avatar: %{name} Marco Tuttolomondo 27/04/2021 22:00
The problem with information is twofold reason it affects the supply (news media) and the demand...
Future of the EU
Avatar: %{name} Pietro Serani 20/04/2021 08:38
We have created a good Union but at this moment in time is incomplete. We have a common currency...
Democratically legitimised ‘EU government’ instead of European Council
Avatar: %{name} Marcel Andre Vogt 21/04/2021 18:02
The main decisions are taken by the European Council, an institution lacking democratic...
Replacing the European Council with a European Senate
Replacing the European Council with a European Senate
Avatar: %{name} Giorgio Sciara 22/04/2021 17:30
The European Council is the least democratic institution of the European Union, it is the place...
Faster decisions
Avatar: %{name} JEAN-MARIE RIVALIERE 09/05/2021 13:10
Too often, the European Union loses in its debates, leading to inefficiency leading to a lack of...
Improving the engagement of citizens, especially young people, by enabling them to live their citizenship
Avatar: %{name} HORTALA CYRIL 05/07/2021 14:41
Create a European association status allowing membership regardless of the nationality of all...
Improving European democracy with the drawing of lots
Avatar: %{name} Bru Wac 14/05/2021 02:46
Drawing by lot improves the representativeness and thus the quality of European democracy
Towards a single institutional seat for the European Parliament
Avatar: %{name} Jorrit Steenman 20/04/2021 12:15
Fixing the loaction of the European Parliament to a single city shows that there is room for...
🇪🇺one union, one name on map🗺️
🇪🇺one union, one name on map🗺️
Avatar: %{name} T. L. 08/05/2021 19:42
The EU🇪🇺 should be seen on maps as ONE country.🌍 This will make the people of the eu feel more...
Let’s enjoy the citizens of Europe once a year for a Citizen’s Democracy Festival.
Let’s enjoy the citizens of Europe once a year for a Citizen’s Democracy Festival.
Avatar: %{name} Helle Fog 24/05/2021 14:25
The festival should be a manifestation of European citizenship, politics and culture. An annual...
United Citizens of Europe
Avatar: %{name} Luigi MOCCIA 21/04/2021 18:36
Concept of United Citizens of Europe signifying the autonomous character of Union citizenship,...
Assess Impact of Legislation on Islands and Isolated Regions. Invest more in communication with smaller-scale interest groups
Assess Impact of Legislation on Islands and Isolated Regions. Invest more in communication with smaller-scale interest groups
Avatar: %{name} Peter John AGIUS 20/04/2021 10:51
Real cohesion requires new systemic efforts from EU institutions which are Treaty bound to...
Direct Democracy
Avatar: %{name} Jean-Christophe Dandoy 21/04/2021 10:13
Enable all Europeans to vote live for Commission representatives as well as for euro MEPs. In...
The Council needs to become more transparent
Avatar: %{name} Philip Hackemann 29/04/2021 15:59
Unfortunately, the Council of the European Union is still extremely opaque. To date, national...
Much more right democracy
Avatar: %{name} Christian Zeitelhofer 10/05/2021 00:22
Here are some serious points: 1. The Council of Ministers should finally be abolished, the people...
A single choice for a single Europe: elections
Avatar: %{name} Julia Fernández 28/04/2021 20:30
We propose that the European institutions regulate a harmonisation of European electoral rules,...
Proposal for a new political system
Proposal for a new political system
Avatar: %{name} JOSE LUIS DIAZ 23/04/2021 22:57
Is there, or can there be, a better political system than democracy, a new political system that...
Europe at school — Europe at school
Avatar: %{name} Alexandre Clo. 20/04/2021 21:31
FR_EN SET THE LEARNING OF A 2ND E.U LANGUAGE AT SCHOOL — I’s not only a lift for the children’s...
Einstimmigkeitsprinzip
Avatar: %{name} Chrisitan Lange 19/05/2021 19:34
I consider this principle as paralysis for Europe. Democracy is based on majority decisions in a...
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