The future is in your hands.

Platform conference on the future of europe. As a major pan-European democratic exercise it offers a new public forum for an open inclusive and transparent debate with citizens around a number of key priorities. Go to youth ideas dot EU pick a topic and share your ideas. Lets shape it together.

Joint press conference on 19 April. From the left Secretary of state Ana Paula Zacarias Portugal Council Vice-President Dubravka Sucia European Commission and MEP Guy Verhofstadt European. Announced in 2019 the Conference on the Future of Europe is a political process and forum with the aim of igniting a pan-European citizen-led debate on the direction of EU policies.

The multilingual digital platform will allow citizens from across Europe to contribute to. Its the same for the EU. 2 of the Treaty on the European.

It is an experiment in platform-based and deliberative democracy that we as directly elected representatives of all Europeans take to heart. How long will the platform be available. Following the launch of the platform on 19 April citizens can start to contribute their ideas and events can take place.

Preparation for an inaugural event on 9 May Europe Day At its meeting on Wednesday the Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe continued preparations to get the Conference started. For the first time in our Unions history all three EU institutions and national parliaments have come together to discuss directly with European citizens enabling them to share their ideas on our common future. On Monday at 1300 the Co-Chairs of the Executive Board will present the Conferences new digital platform a central hub for citizens contributions.

As from 19 April 2021 thanks to the Conference digital platform citizens from across Europe will have the possibility to provide their views on any topic. The intention being to bring citizens civil society and a variety of other holders into the heart of EU decision making. The Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe comprising representatives from the European Parliament the Council of the European Union and the European Commission is launching the multilingual digital platform for the Conference on the Future of Europe inviting all EU citizens to contribute to shaping their own future and that of Europe as a whole.