Healthy democracies require active citizen participation. Mobile voting can energise the electorate and create a virtuous cycle of greater voter participation, greater electoral accountability, and better policies and outcomes, Remi Meehan and Bradley …
The only way Europe can move forward is by redirecting destructive subsidies towards activities that protect and restore nature and supporting greater citizen participation in policy development, Ester Asin writes.
In recent decades, political institutions have witnessed a gradual erosion of trust among their constituents, a trend exacerbated by the economic and financial crisis. According to the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), over the past 20 ye…
Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation o…
The idea was to expose Vladimir Putin; critics say it emboldens Viktor Orbán.
From the Conference on the Future of Europe to the European Citizens’ Panels, in recent years, the EU institutions have been promoting a stronger participatory approach to their decision-making processes. The European Parliament and other EU bodi…
The Dutch city of Rotterdam is teeming with initiatives aimed at ensuring citizens have a say in decisions that affect their life, from community-led projects to citizen participation schemes designed by the municipality. To learn more about the city’s…
The European Parliament called on the EU to give European citizens a stronger voice and more instruments to influence the Union’s decision-making, as well as institutionalise participatory and deliberative processes.
NGOs warned of “opacities” in the way the pandemic recovery funds have been designed and spent across a number of European countries, which have often locked citizens out from decisions affecting them.
