Date: 2021
Type: Other
What’s in an experiment? : opportunities and risks for the Conference on the Future of Europe
STG Policy Briefs, 2021/16
ALEMANNO, Alberto, MACKAY, James Alexander Calum, MILANESE, Niccolò, NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso, What’s in an experiment? : opportunities and risks for the Conference on the Future of Europe, STG Policy Briefs, 2021/16 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72598
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This brief gathers together proposals put forward by participants in the EUI-STG transnational democracy forum with diverse areas of expertise (in academia, think tanks, policy, NGOs, journalism); and it therefore serves as a document of collective suggestions and agenda-setting for the academic year 2021-22. The forum, which was set up in the autumn of 2020 as a space for discussion on the aims, methods and long-term implications of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), does not speak with a single voice. Nevertheless, as ‘critical friends’ of CoFoE, we agree that – if accompanied by efforts to build bridges among a broad array of pan-European participatory initiatives – the Conference could provide an opportunity for meaningful democratisation. The forum members are also aware that this EU-led initiative carries significant risks of undermining further democratisation efforts if it is badly implemented, poorly followed-up or cynically instrumentalised. We conceptualise CoFoE as a transnational experiment that can provide an important learning experience for democratic reform in the EU, albeit an experiment that has realworld effects and so must be conducted responsibly
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72598
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/465874
ISBN: 9789294660183
ISSN: 2600-271X
Series/Number: STG Policy Briefs; 2021/16
Publisher: European University Institute
Other topic(s): CoFoE European democracy