We must hope that the EU will decide to take advantage of this Biden/Harris moment in the United States as the new presidential inauguration looms in January 2021

Fanaticism also emerges from social exclusion and inadequate, precarious education, where the concept of the Republic is not synonymous with equality and fraternity.

After months of hard work and lobbying with Citizens Take Over Europe, today we submit a petition to the European Parliament for more transparency on the negotiations about the Conference on the Future of Europe. We are also handing over our open letter to all three EU institutions to demand that citizens are involved in co-creating the Conference.

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