The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
21
February
08:00
22
May
20:00
Reference: democratic-odyssey-DEBA-2025-02-103
Version number 3 (of 3) see other versions
As part of the Democratic Odyssey’s Assembly, you are asked to present at the end of process:
A Citizens’ Charter for “how can we help steer the ship and become effective change makers?”
In light of this, we would like to ask:
- what is a Citizens' Charter, in your view?
- Is it anticipatory (anticipating crises) or reactive?
- Is it an emergency kit in times of crises, that governments and the EU can activate?
- Does it provide a prescription for how we protect democracy from crises?
- Or is it an appeal, a call to action?
- Which actors should it target?
- Does it pragmatically call on citizens engagement in times of crises?
- Is it a binding contract with policy-makers, businesses, civil society actors and others? Who does it address?
- Does it talk about different levels of governance (European, national, local)?
Please share your opinions as to what would the Citizens' Charter look like in your view - the Assembly will be asked to take it in and build on it throughout the Assembly process, all the way to the final session in Vienna (23-25 May 2025).
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View: Perhaps a collective protocol. Not about promises but how we as citizens claim/defend or regenerate
Anticipatory or reactive: Both actually. but primarily should be proactive and anticipatory
Kit: I guess it should serve as design for emergency situation resilience in advance through some scaffolding or serve as a model for the blue prints for proactive resilience and prevention too
Prescription: I guess this is all context based and situational lived reality based, adaptable across social fragmentation institutional distrust, tech capture, ecological collapse etc
Appeal/CTA: both a declaration and a demand, perhaps a declaration of civic readiness and institutional accountability demand.
Actor:EU, national, municipal, civil society, private sector and citizens
Pragmatic call under crisis:yes through protocols and deliberation, governance, dissent etc
Binding contract: No, but perhaps moral through political consequences?
Levels of governance:
Yes but they should be hyper specifi
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