The Travelling Assembly

[Please note this latest version was made public on 25 May 2025, after the final meeting (External link) of the 2024/25 pilot Assembly]

Principle: Spending of public money should be decided with the participation of the people, to ensure that everyone is taken into account, to limit the influence of special interests, to mobilise collective intelligence, cultivate learning, and build trust. Participatory budgeting has been tested in many places, now it should become mainstream across Europe at all levels including whether to spend or to tax. It is important to receive and implement public feedback on how to raise money (e.g. taxes). Budgets must be transparently posted on the web and accessible to all people. If not, authorities need to give us good reasons why not. If budget committees, panels, and assemblies were set up in many different ways across the continent to allocate our collective resources - that would be the people in action!