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This article argues that if the EU is to recover its dented popularity among European publics, we need to build a European democratic ecosystem to nurture, scale and ultimate accommodate the daily competing claims of Europe’s citizens. To attain this objective, it presents and discusses three big ideas that are at the heart of the renewed EU ecosystem that we are calling for. These are: participation beyond voting; a transnational and inclusive public space; and, a democratic panopticon for greater accountability. Promisingly enough, these ideas already find reflection in the first batch of the citizens’ recommendations emerging from the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). Even if these recommendations still need to be refined through deliberation by the plenary of the CoFoE, they add up a clear and urgent message: let’s tap into our collective intelligence and democratic imagination to construct a pan-European public sphere by enhancing mutual connections, knowledge and empowerment between citizens across borders.

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in G. Mazzantini and L. Tafani (eds) L’analisi di impatto e gli altri strumenti per la qualità della regolazione. Annuario 2020, Osservatorio AIR

in B.L. Boschetti and E. A. Vendramini, (eds), Osservatorio sul Futuro e l’Innovazione dell’Amministrazione – FuturAP. Rapporto Zero 2021

Rassegna Osservatorio Air, 4

Studi parlamentari e di politica costituzionale, 209, 1

Munus, 1