Citizens Take Over Europe welcomes President Von der Leyen’s due reference to the Conference on the Future of Europe in her State of the Union address, but calls for greater transparency and citizen participation in the planning of the Conference. 

Together with Citizens Take Over Europe we published a open letter to Angela Merkel, asking to convene the Conference on the Future of Europe, If you believe that the EU German Presidency should work with citizens to redesign Europe, please sign it !

Can we both build a global response to Covid-19  and its social consequences yet at the same time, prevent ecological disaster?  This now seems increasingly to be a worldwide demand, but what would  be the appropriate response?

"The Eurogroup decision on support for Southern Europe on April 9 may have incidentally anticipated some of the dramatic implications that would otherwise have attended the outcome of the European Council’s meeting on 23 April" - an article by Alvaro Vasconcellos

We call on progressive political forces to unite behind this agenda and together press for profound political change.

It is of paramount importance to act now and show the people of Europe that we are actually doing so in an extraordinary way.

Sign our petition to the EU Parliament on COVID-19. The social, economical and climate crisis.