On 1 July Germany takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union. The Conference on the Future of Europe is on the agenda for its six-month term. While the EU institutions have not yet found an agreement on how it should be conducted, Citizens Take Over Europe proposes that citizens should be involved in the process from the outset.
Most European countries are emerging from lockdowns, and the discussion is now dominated by who got it right and who didn’t, what were the most effective approaches, what can we learn and how can we hold governments accountable.
We have gathered data on excess deaths from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus. Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the pandemic without any significant excess death.
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