The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
6. ‘If People relocate, democracy must follow’ - STEPS?
[Please note this latest version was made public on 25 May 2025, after the final meeting (External link) of the 2024/25 pilot Assembly]
Steps? (Vienna spirit)
- Having a citizens assembly which include the voices of migrants and people in mobiliy and those impacted by this phenomenon.
- Lower administrative burdens for migrants and people in mobility to access their rights.
- Feedback loop between different authorities who decide over e.g. migrants visa processes. This process should be transparent.
- Creating a Media Independent “Authority” to oversee the depiction of people in mobility and prevent hatred speech through ‘watch-dog’.
- Every person who pays taxes in an area or is registered as resident (no matter which residency-status (Aufenthaltsstatus) they have) has the right to vote on the community and local level.
- Develop a welcome package for each country, outlining participation opportunities, rights, and responsibilities for new residents.
- strengthen local services (welcome services, job-orienteering/social services...)in communities where migration levels are high to diminish social insecurity concerning the topic.
- In the EU we need a synergy between the central institutions and the local community who care about "moving people".
- Reforming the educational system implemented by civic education, civic EU education, empathy education and education to step in someone's shoes.
- ‘Democratic Onboarding’ - Educate about rights, duties, democracy for people from abroad. Gamification, nudging and compensation for expenses/time.
- Representative on an institutional local level for “migrants/moving people”.
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Create a fund on a EU-Level where every state has to pay in for the welfare of asylum seekers. Asylum seeker can chose where they wanna live and the country they choose is getting money out of the fund for each asylum seekers.
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