In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the founding act of European construction, on the 9th of May, we spoke with the president of the Schuman Foundation to discuss the state of this process and his perspectives.
On 9 May, Europe Day, the Citizens Take Over Europe alliance launches its Assembly, a citizens’ conversation on the future of Europe. The Assembly is necessary because civil society has been sidelined from the Conference on the Future of Europe promoted by the European Union, explain the representatives of the initiative, Marta Cillero, Michele Fiorillo and Martin Pairet.
Gianfranco Schiavone, president of the Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS), talks about the ongoing reform of the so-called Dublin process that regulates the asylum granting process in the EU, which has been widely criticised for playing a negative role in the refugee crisis.
The Italian academic explains how the “citizen lobbying” tools he promotes can help Europeans and NGOs to influence the EU and governments’ decisions on issues that matter to them.
A former cleaning employee, MEP Konstantina Kuneva personally suffered serious violence. She now fights for female workers’ rights and for a Europe where less is said about finance and more about human rights.
The founder of Pulse of Europe, the grassroots movement that brings together a growing number of citizens taking the streets to show their commitment to Europe and their refusal of populism in a growing number of European cities, explains how PoE was launched and its scope in this exclusive interview.
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