Posted by aline on Nov 16, 2010 in Featured Articles, project | 1 comment

Propositions to Commission

Please note: Results from the forums will be transmitted to the European Commission! After the end of the E-Panels project, all propositions from the forum will be collected and submitted to the European Commission. So tell the Commission officials and others what you think – you will be heard!

Posted by aline on Nov 15, 2010 | 1 comment

Final conference in Zagreb...

e-panels closing event took place two weeks ago in Zagreb. Comments about the website and the participation of citizens on the different forums were quite straight-forward, and it can only motivate us (ALDA and the 6 partners) to improve our website for further use and broader participation. We will thus encourage more people to post their views on this website and forum, about EU in general and in their...

Posted by aline on Oct 19, 2010 | 1 comment

Coming Up: E-Panels Confer...

Zagreb, November 3rd: Closing conference of a European project managed by ALDA, the Association of Local Democracy Agencies E-PANELS, THE NEW ICT INSTRUMENT FOR CITIZENS’ PARTICIPATION Closing the gap between citizens and the European Union is possible, provided that the institutions are really open and willing to support the citizens’ desire for active participation. The citizens’ desire to...

Posted by aline on Jul 20, 2010 | 0 comments

Your chance to tell Brusse...

Citizens will soon be able to invite the Commission to deal with a specific subject they consider should be governed by European legislation. In the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union adds a new participatory aspect to its political system: the European Citizens’ Initiative. That means that you, together with people from other Member States, will be able to bring your own ideas into the political...

Posted by aline on Jul 7, 2010 | 2 comments

French Youth discuss about...

As part of the project E-panels, ten French youths from Caen aged 14 to 16 took part in a workshop on discrimination in Europe. E-panels encourages civic participation and voluntary work, with one of the major objectives being to bring Europeans closer to each other. In this context, the participants of the workshop decided to deal with discriminations. Taking statistical data as a starting point, the...