A name to residents and leaders of the EU for a democratic European energy – VoxEurop

Today we Europeans have a chance to make the European Union the primary democratic, multinational and multilingual energy, constructed by residents and open to the world.

Let’s seize that chance.

The Covid disaster has made us all too conscious of each our precarity and our interdependent destinies.  

It has proven us the significance of Europe on this new multipolar world, and the necessity to unite towards the immense ecological, financial, social, well being and safety challenges dealing with our societies. 

It has revealed the distinctive character of our financial and social mannequin.

In these unprecedented instances, and regardless of highly effective although illusory temptations to show inwards, the EU has chosen to face outward, and understands the utter vainness of each man for himself.

During the primary wave of the pandemic, Europeans dared to invent new types of solidarity, establishing  a collective help system for struggling enterprises and unemployed residents, in addition to conceiving a restoration plan unprecedented in its measurement, philosophy and respect for rule of regulation. A Union that takes inventory from its crises to strengthen its resilience and higher shield its residents.

While we’re happy about all this, we’re additionally conscious that these actions and plans solely make sense in the event that they serve the lasting pursuits of the residents of the Union and are a part of a perspective of regeneration of the European mission. 

There is a large threat of getting guidelines and existence imposed on us that we are not looking for, particularly within the digital area dominated by a number of systemic platforms.

What different?

First of all, giving us the means to achieve the concrete implementation of the European restoration plan, whereas retaining, within the meantime, the financial system. help methods; the extension of the protection of employment and earnings help for all classes of employees, together with these in precarious, atypical or self-employed work.

Its monetary magnitude is main however an actual reflection on the standard of the investments required to have a powerful affect on sustainable and socially inclusive progress has not taken place.

As they stand, the nationwide restoration plans which can be presently being drafted and that shall be notably financed by European cash, take up previous, outdated digital and ecological tasks.

There is an pressing have to right the state of affairs and higher contain the social companions and residents within the decisions to be made, whereas selling investments with a really European dimension, able to forging a New European Deal, together with an bold Green New Deal.

It is the success of this plan that can break the distrust between frugal and spending  Member States and create the situations for an actual, long run European finances, the one one in a position to make Europe an financial, ecological and cultural energy of the twenty first century.  

Secondly, it’s a query of constructing the Conference on the Future of Europe an expertise of actual democratic citizen participation.

Its ambition have to be clear: to construct a forward-looking, daring and shared imaginative and prescient of our future for the approaching many years. 

The WeEuropeans expertise, which has reached 38 million citizens in 27 countries and in 24 languages, reveals an actual urge for food of European residents to take part in defining our frequent future via a brand new type of steady participatory and deliberative democracy, which enhances our consultant democracies.   

Only this new democratic impetus, which engenders real European citizenship, can result in a Union of well-being, of peace and solidarity, offering alternatives for everybody. A Union which, by mobilising residents, States, public authorities and social companions, will be capable to present concrete options to the rise in inequalities and unemployment; which contributes to the preservation of the planet; which ensures and defends its elementary values of unity, freedom, solidarity and democracy.

The urgency immediately is to provide us the means to resolve in a extra authentic, environment friendly and speedy manner. This decision-making capability is indispensable at a time when the technological transformations and the rebalancing of the world’s main powers are accelerating.

The present Treaties permit us to maneuver from unanimity to certified majority voting system in sure areas. 

Let us apply certified majority voting to all of the Union’s insurance policies and actions as quickly as potential.

Let us transfer from a system of weak cooperation to a mission of frequent development!

We remorse the departure of our British buddies and we’re satisfied {that a} particular and intensely shut relationship shall be established with London. 

But if there’s one lesson to be discovered from their accession and departure, it’s that the extra exceptions are accepted for a Member State, the much less it grows in European unity and solidarity.

The time has undoubtedly come to make the unity of our Union an actual actuality.

Let us be clear: this may solely be potential if we actually worth our range and the cultural, financial, social and historic contributions of every one in all us.

Let us lastly have the audacity to place tradition on the coronary heart of European software program to as soon as once more change into this main centre of world creation able to attracting one of the best expertise on the earth.

But as soon as once more, this new European stage will solely be potential if each citizen takes possession of the European mission via the institutionalisation of a technique of deliberative democracy that’s steady, clear, inclusive and ensures concrete implementation of the selections taken. This is an important situation for making the Union everybody’s mission!

The window of alternative is slim however the context is beneficial at European and international degree.

Our collective accountability is immense. 

While there’s nonetheless time, allow us to carry collectively the thousands and thousands of residents from the 4 corners of our Union who’re able to commit themselves.   

* Signatories

On the initiative of the co-Presidents of CIVICO Europa, Guillaume Klossa, former sherpa for the reflection group on the way forward for Europe (European Council) and former Director of the European  Broadcasting Union, and Francesca Ratti, former Secretary basic of the European Parliament : 

László Andor (HU),  Economist, former European Commissioner;

Lionel Baier (CH), movie Director; 

Brando Benifei (IT), Member of the European Parliament, S&D group, President of the Spinelli Group;

Massimo Cacciari (IT), Philosopher, former Mayor of Venice, former Member of the European Parliament;

Jasmina Cibic (SI),  Artist;

Daniel Cohn-Bendit (FR/DE), former President of the Greens group within the European Parliament;

Jože P. Damijan (SI), Economist;

Axel Dauchez (FR), Founder of Make.org;

Philippe de Buck (BE), former Director General of Business Europe; 

Paul Dujardin (BE), Director General of BOZAR; 

Pascal Durand (FR), Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe group;

Anthony Ferreira (FR), Secretary General of CIVICO Europa;

Michele Fiorillo (IT), Philosopher, Coordinator of CIVICO Europa community;

Cynthia Fleury (FR), Philosopher;

Markus Gabriel (DE), Philosopher; 

Costa-Gavras (FR/GR), Film Director;

Felipe González (ES), former Prime Minister, former President of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe;

Sandro Gozi (IT), Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe group, President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), former European Affairs Minister;

Ulrike Guérot (DE), Political Scientist, Director of the European Democracy Lab;

Danuta Hübner (PL), former European Commissioner, Member of the European Parliament, EPP group ;

Aleksander Kwaśniewski (PL), former President of the Republic;

Philippe Lamberts (BE), Co-President of The Greens/EFA group within the European Parliament;

Jernej Lorenci (SI), Theater Director;

Robert Menasse (AT), European Writer in German;

Jonathan Moskovic (BE), former Coordinator of G1000, Adviser for democratic innovation;

Stojan Pelko (SI), former Secretary of State for Culture;

Janez Pipan (SI) Theater Director;

Rossen Plevneliev (BG), former President of the Republic;

Janez Potočnik (SI), former European Commissioner;

Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović(NL/RS), Secretary General of Europa Nostra; 

Nina Rawal (SE), Founder of “Emerging Health Ventures”;

Maria João Rodrigues (PT), President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), former Member of the European Parliament;

Petre Roman (RO), former Prime Minister;

Yvan Sagnet (CM), Writer, Founder of NoCap Association;

Fernando Savater (ES),  Philosopher; 

Roberto Saviano (IT), Writer; 

Elly Schlein (IT), Vice-President of the Emilia Romagna Region, former Member of the   European Parliament;

Andreas Schwab (DE), Member of the European Parliament, EPP group;

Gesine Schwan (DE), President of the Humboldt-Viadrina governance platform;

Daniela Schwarzer (DE), Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP);

Denis Simonneau (FR), President of EuropaNova;

Claus Haugaard Sørensen (DK), former Director General of the European Commission; 

Farid Tabarki (NL), Founder of Studio Zeitgeist; 

Danilo Türk (SI),former President of Republic, President of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid;

Guy Verhofstadt (BE), former Prime Minister, Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe group; 

Boštjan Videmšek (SI), Journalist, EU Climate Pact Ambassador;

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (LV), former President of the Republic;

Cédric Villani (FR), Mathematician, Fields Medal, Member of Parliament ;

Pietro Vimont (FR), Founder Member of CIVICO Europa;

Luca Visentini (IT), General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation;

Sasha Waltz & Jochen Sandig (DE), respectively Choreographer and Director of the Sasha Waltz Company;

Alenka Zupančič (SI), Philosopher;

Samuel Žbogar (SI),Head of EU Delegation in Skopje, former EU Special Representative in Kosovo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Slavoj Žižek (SI), Philosopher.

This attraction might be supported at:   www.civico.eu 

Contact: guillaume.klossa@civico.eu – francesca.ratti@civico.eu