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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The Citizen Charter has to be both: anticipatory and reactiv, but it is not only an emergency kit. It is a constantly participation regarding political,social and emergency questions on various levels: local, national and european.
-- Not a static prescription, but an active attention and reflection of an actual situation of (missing) democracy, which allows to protect as soon as possible.
--- It includes also an appeal of action, depending on the situation : crises , limitations of democratic rights need a public protest/voice.
-- It should target the responsible actors on local, national and EU level.
-- Yes, an engagement is asked in time of crises.
-- I won't use the term "contract", but a binding citizen assembly . It adresses the executive actors and istitutions of defense of the constitution and democratic laws.
--- Different levels of governance are necessary to reach steps of change.
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