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.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a global health and economic crisis that requires global solutions. However, the national-international structure is unable to offer an adequate response to it. Thought leaders around the world have signed this document demanding to political leaders and international institutions to strengthen the UN system, the World Health Organisation and the international existing weak structure as well, applying the principles of federalism and democracy worldwide.
After the pandemic, EU citizens must seize the moment to build a democracy of equals who share the same protections.
At a time when European integration has reached a crossroads, a new film about the life of the Italian anti-fascist and European federalist Ernesto Rossi reveals the relevance of the Ventotene Manifesto.
The Coronavirus outbreak is one of the most urgent and existential global challenges our world has seen in generations. Like nothing before it, it has shown how economically, technologically, politically and environmentally interconnected our world is. We do need to reinvent how globalisation works, and place active citizenship at its core.
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