The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
1. “Being involved is also our responsibility as citizens!” - PRINCIPLE
[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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Die Frage, wie man die Verantwortung der Bürger juristisch einbindet, haben sich zur Wendezeit auch die Mütter und Väter der neuen DDR-Verfassung beschäftigt. Der Zentrale Runde Tisch fügte 1990 im Entwurf einen zweiten Satz zum Artikel 1 hinzu, der diese Verantwortung konstituiert. Dort heißt es:
"(1) Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist die oberste Pflicht des Staates.
(2) Jeder schuldet jedem die Anerkennung als Gleicher. Niemand darf ... "
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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