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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Do you feel frustrated and disempowered about not having a say in decisions that affect your everyday life? Do you believe you can contribute valuable insights and ideas to help solve Europe’s greatest challenges. Let’s rebuild the trust between you – the citizens, and our leaders. Debating Europe is here to make European democracy fit

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

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investigates democratic challenges in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and aims to propose new ways for the EU to assist political liberalisation and strengthen democracy in the region.

The European Parliament elections on 6-9 June 2024 will be an important election for young people, with many 16- and 17-year-olds (from 5 of the 27 EU countries) voting for the first time. On July 6th, Debating Europe, the citizens engagement and democracy unit of Friends of Europe, hosted a panel debate on how to engage

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 ...

Education is key. Whether it’s about the environment, democracy, health, security or digitalisation, we believe effective change comes through equal access to lifelong learning. That’s why we organise workshops of various kinds focussed on citizen capacity-building, democracy and active citizenship. They are indeed an interactive way to engage with citizens and civil society organisations on

The question of what it means to be “European” comes up regularly on Debating Europe. In the past, we’ve debated whether a common European identity is possible, whether you feel European, and what EU citizenship means to you. These are all important questions, and your opinion on almost every topic we cover – from immigration, to Eurozone bailouts, to relations with