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From Voices to Action: Building a Water-Resilient Europe
From Voices to Action: Building a Water-Resilient Europe
The “2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up!” report we released in late February 2024 revealed a clear message from citizens across Europe: water scarcity is a growing concern, and concrete action is needed. This online panel discussion brought together public and private sector leaders to react to citizens’ insights and explore how to turn the
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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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Climate Action discussion groups are over – find out what’s next
Climate Action discussion groups are over – find out what’s next
How can society, from citizens to private corporations, help create concrete changes? Between September 2023 and April 2024, Debating Europe ran four online focus group series (small and facilitated citizen group discussion) to discuss four strands of the EU missions on climate action. 160 citizens supported the efforts to a green future by sharing their
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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