Event report

The report of the event “Your, my, our Europe”, citizens’ ideas for the future of Europe The event, the participatory workshop “Your, my, our Europe”, was presented in the topic “Other ideas”, i.e. on cross-cutting issues. Participants of the workshop, an intergenerational group, divided into eleven-member teams, worked in one-and-a-half-hour sessions. In total, each team worked for over seven hours, alternately with Polish Team Europe experts Jan Truszczyński and Rafał Kuligowski. In addition, during the meetings from Saturday to Monday, participants had unlimited opportunities to talk to experts. The workshop was attended by a group of students who will represent Ostrołęka at the European Youth Events (EYE) in Strasbourg. One day was devoted to preparing young people to participate actively in the EYE, both in the “Conference of the Future of Europe” and in the “green path”. Given the intensive work of the teams, thirty-five proposals have been made, which we will successively share in the ideas tab. 1. Food labelling – quality test result and place of EU origin gid://decidim-dife/Decidim::Proposals::Proposal/86989 2. Increasing food quality control 3. Detailing the labelling of food products 4. Effective enforcement of compliance/penalty for littering in the environment (forests) 5. Adjusting education with a focus on the development of individual predispositions 6. Adjusting daytime teaching at school, in terms of teaching efficiency 7. EU competence and unification of European education systems “for Europe” with a programme basis shaping contemporary Europeans and Europeans 8. Introduction of European education in primary schools 9. Introduction of European education in kindergartens 10. Popularising pro-European attitudes in the mass media 11. Broadening support for education and research from EU level 12. Promoting European culture [sites, events and publications] on publicly accessible thematic digital platforms 13. Deepening integration – Developing pan-European competence criteria for candidates for the European Parliament 14. Deepening integration – Increased ex ante controls on the use of EU funds 15. Deepening integration – Implementation of a common energy policy in the EU 16. Deepening integration – Establishing the EU Joint Armed Forces 17. Deepening integration – Common Foreign Policy 18. Deepening integration – Joint Intervention Border Guard, operating at the EU’s problematic external borders (FRONTEX support) 19. Deepening integration – a common border guard for all EU countries. 20. Deepening integration – Common environmental policy 21. Deepening integration – the creation of the United States of Europe [Federalisation] 22. Deepening integration – creating a European healthcare system accessible to EU citizens using existing facilities 23. Deepening integration – giving EU institutions suing individuals responsible for non-compliance with court judgments, national courts, CJEU and ECtHR 24. Deepening integration – making it mandatory for the EU to participate in elections 25. Free COVID-19 testing of EU citizens co-funded by the EU 26. Education of young people in the field of civilisation and European culture, as part of shaping attitudes of European identity, breaking down barriers between EU citizens, moving away from stereotypes, eliminating xenophobia 27. Increasing the presence of Brussels officials in dealings with citizens in individual countries (departure) 28. Increase the EU institutions‘contacts with citizens, ngo’s and not just governments to increase trust in the EU institutions and increase citizens’ attachment to the EU 29. From the history of the EU, in particular, discussing ideas and the importance of values – why we create the EU 30. Speeding up and streamlining the procedures for Union action within the framework of the Treaties and other legal acts 31. Adopt common rules for dealing with migrants taking into account the acquis of European civilisation 32. Introduce the principle of direct support for local government units (citizens’ communities) with a particular focus on raising living standards in small and medium-sized towns and towns. 33. Promoting and supporting exchanges between school classes and the European Voluntary Service 34. We look forward to stepping up inspections of investment plans and expenditures in the EU, including localisation analyses of “big buildings”, in particular destroying the natural environment – such as in Poland the pier of the Vistula Spit, the felling of large forests, devastation of areas under the aviation hub or so-called. Izeria 35. Reducing the employment (drainage) of shortage professionals (e.g. doctors) on competitive financial terms outside the country of education/specialisation