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2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up!
2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up!
2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up! The Europe we know today was designed in a postwar era for a vastly different reality. Mounting challenges and crises ranging from climate change to automation and economic downturns, digital threats, and the rapid spread of (mis)information, have brought societal concerns, confusion, and frustrations to a breaking point. Widening
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Protecting our Oceans, Water and Soils – Share your views!
Protecting our Oceans, Water and Soils – Share your views!
Are you concerned about the health of our oceans, water and soils? How can society, from citizens to private corporations, help create concrete changes? You, as a citizen, can support the efforts to a green future by sharing your views, ideas and solutions. Debating Europe ran two online focus group series in September 2023 to discuss two strands of
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Would you complement or replace representative democracy with participatory and deliberative democracy?
Would you complement or replace representative democracy with participatory and deliberative democracy?
Friends of Europe · Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Representative vs. participatory democracy In the final episode of our 2023 podcast series designed to reimagine a democracy fit for the 21st century, we asked two experts if they would rather complement or replace representative democracy with participatory and deliberative democracy – Roberto Foa – Director
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Could civic education be the silver bullet needed to rebuild trust in our democracies?
Could civic education be the silver bullet needed to rebuild trust in our democracies?
Friends of Europe · Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Is civic education the silver bullet? As part of our work around reimagining a democracy fit for the 21st century, we asked the following experts and activists “Could civic education be the silver bullet needed to rebuild trust in our democracies?” Roberto Foa – Director of
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We live in an increasingly polarised world – how can we get the genie back in the bottle?
We live in an increasingly polarised world – how can we get the genie back in the bottle?
Friends of Europe · Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Solutions to an increasingly polarised world In a world characterized by increasing polarization, we’ve asked the following experts and activists for their strategies for putting the genie back into the bottle. Brian Eno – Musician, producer, visual artist and activist Roberto Foa – Director of the