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Based on the EU Strategic Agenda set in 2019, and aiming for proposals in the medium and long term, the topics which the Conference should centre are those related to: sustainability and environment, societal challenges and protections, migration, innovation and digital transformation, democracy and fundamental rights, and the international role of the Union.
More recently, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Member States to discuss a joint public debt and a recovery plan to mitigate economic consequences and to help the healthcare sector shortage caused by the pandemic. However, differently from 2008 and 2015, the split between Northern and Southern countries now is more blurred.
Despite the destructive power of this pandemic, it is a good example to point to the transnationality of the new challenges we will face in the following years. Climate-change, diseases, innovation and the future of work, and more, all these issues cannot be well-confronted without cooperation and collective action.
Most lies in our hands
Most lies in our hands
As citizens, we have the right to have our voice heard, as well as the responsibility to engage in shaping our future. These initiatives for more citizen’s participation highlight the EU’s attempt to bring its citizens to the center of the discussion. The Union tries to encourage active participation and discussion of citizens on complex issues that are better solved at both the EU and national levels, and tries to fight Euroscepticism with more inclusion.
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