Voices for Healthy Oceans and Waters: A Citizen-Focused Dialogue. Between September 2023 and April 2024, we conducted group discussions on climate issues with 160 citizens from all over Europe to discuss about their views on 4 EU Missions, namely on: The third part of this series: “Voices for Healthy Oceans and Waters: A Citizen-Focused Dialogue”, is inspired by the EU mission Restore our ...

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Citizen’s group discussion Between September 2023 and April 2024, Debating Europe ran four online focus group series (small and facilitated citizen group discussion) to discuss four strands of the EU missions on climate action. 160 citizens supported the efforts to a green future by sharing their views, ideas and solutions on: 1. Transforming our Cities: Cities play

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Jun 14, 2022 · The EU has a difficult road ahead to reach climate neutrality by 2050 Even before the war in Ukraine, the obstacles were already substantial. However, given the current context of rising energy prices, achieving a just transition to a more sustainable future will be even more challenging. On 14 June 2022, the think-tank Friends of

2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up! The Europe we know today was designed in a postwar era for a vastly different reality. Mounting challenges and crises ranging from climate change to automation and economic downturns, digital threats, and the rapid spread of (mis)information, have brought societal concerns, confusion, and frustrations to a breaking point. Widening

Voter turnout in individual EU Member States varies wildly. Belgium and Luxembourg almost always top the list with voter participation greater than 80%. However, these outliers are easy to explain, in both these countries voting is compulsory and people who don’t cast their ballot risk being fined. The argument in favour of extending compulsory voting to other

May 31, 2022 · Has the time come for the EU to embrace new forms of democracy? The EU’s deliberative democracy experiment, embodied by the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), gave citizens from across the bloc a platform to set out proposals for how they want the EU to function and what they feel it should focus on. Could this be a unique opportunity to shed light on the fundamental importance of ...

DENMARK/DANMARK – FRANCE – ITALY/ITALIA – GERMANY/DEUTSCHLAND – POLAND/POLSKA We’re continuing our work to redesign the roles and responsibilities citizens, governments and businesses have towards each other to make society fair and work well for all, known as the ‘social contract’. Over the next few months, with ‘Voices for Choices’ we’ll be running surveys and group ...