The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
[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: Active citizenship cannot be coerced: it must become a widely acknowledged right. Participation should not be limited to elections or occasional consultations. Emergencies should not be a pretext for a few decision-makers to ignore the citizens, the very ones affected Our society and our future are our responsibility. Drawing on our life experiences, expertise and dreams, we can all contribute to decisions made before, during and after crises. Whatever our background, whether we are nationals or not. Even if no one likes to give up power, authorities empowered by civil society and citizens will thrive. Together they can invest cleverly in civic spaces, infrastructure and processes at every opportunity and every level, local, national, supranational. Use us as democratic turbo-batteries!
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The question of how to legally incorporate the responsibility of citizens was also addressed by the mothers and fathers of the new GDR constitution at the time of reunification. In 1990, the Central Round Table added a second sentence to Article 1 in the draft, which constituted this responsibility. It reads:
"(1) Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the supreme duty of the state.
(2) Everyone owes everyone else recognition as an equal. No one shall ... "
https://erinnerungsdebatten.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/StiftungAufarbeitung-Meckel-Nr-62_Verfassung-der-AG-Verfassung-des-ZRT.pdf (External link)
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