Conference Conversations 7 – Taking stock of the Conference

Has public reception of the Conference changed since its launch earlier this year? How representative is the Conference so far and are the randomly selected citizens representative of the diversity of EU citizens? Has the promise to include youth voices and perspectives been fulfilled? How will the upcoming meetings of the Conference Plenary take up the recommendations of the four Citizens’ Panels? What role will the nine working groups play in this process? Who will be the main political drivers behind the final proposals and what role will the European Commission and the European Parliament play in this process? How involved will national governments be in the next phases of the Conference?

Conference Conversations (7) with Dubravka Šuica, Co-Chair, Executive Board, Conference on the Future of Europe and European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography; Karoline Edtstadler, Federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution, Austrian Federal Chancellery; Gabriele Bischoff, Member of European Parliament, S&D Group; Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy, HEC Paris; Dominik Hierlemann, Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Moderator: Jacki Davis, Meade Davis Communications

 

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We are pleased to invite you to the seventh edition of Conference Conversations, an interactive, online talk show that tackles key issues and questions related to the Conference on the Future of Europe in the framework of our Conference Observatory project.

As we approach the final phase of the European Citizens’ Panels and following the Conference Plenary in October, it is a good time to take stock of the Conference so far. The third and final sessions of the Panels are about to start, in which citizens will conclude their deliberations and decide on the recommendations they will present to the Conference Plenary meetings in December and January.

Has public reception of the Conference changed since its launch earlier this year? How representative is the Conference so far and are the randomly selected citizens representative of the diversity of EU citizens? Has the promise to include youth voices and perspectives been fulfilled? How will the upcoming meetings of the Conference Plenary take up the recommendations of the four Citizens’ Panels? What role will the nine working groups play in this process? Who will be the main political drivers behind the final proposals and what role will the European Commission and the European Parliament play in this process? How involved will national governments be in the next phases of the Conference?

We look forward to discussing these and other questions online with

Dubravka Šuica, Co-Chair, Executive Board, Conference on the Future of Europe; European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography

Karoline Edtstadler, Federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution, Austrian Federal Chancellery

Gabriele Bischoff, Member of European Parliament, S&D Group

Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy, HEC Paris

Dominik Hierlemann, Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Jacki Davis, Meade Davis Communications (Moderator)

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