Citizens’ Panels
16 Citizens’ Panels take place in eight EU Member States: Germany, Romania, Malta, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Latvia, Bulgaria. Each country hosts one transnational and one local Citizens’ Panel in the country where they are based.
Every Panel has a different thematic focus and participants are given the space to discuss and propose recommendations from different perspectives:
- The role of youth in decision-making
- Promotion of democratic values at the regional and international level
- Migration
- Climate policies in the world
- The role and responsibility of the EU in former colonies
- Inclusion of new EU residents and cross-regional cooperation
- Disinformation and hate-speech in the context of democratic backsliding in the world
- Justice and rule of law
Local Citizens’ Panels
The local Citizens’ Panels welcome around 30 local participants: residents, citizens, or newcomers.
Through informed discussion, they elaborate on the role of the EU in the world, the effect of global EU policies at the local level, and what are the best mechanisms to represent the local needs in transnational actions.
The outcomes of the Local panels guide the organisation of the transnational panels. By gathering participants’ views and recommendations, EU for Global partners gain insight into key EU external policy issues that people of the EU value for further discussion in transnational panels.
Transnational Citizens’ Panels
The transnational Citizens’ Panels welcome around 30 participants: residents, citizens, or newcomers from at least seven EU Member States.
In a three-day Panel, they partake in workshops, lectures, creative trainings on main issues related to a specific focal issue. These sessions are organised to support informative discussions on the role of the EU in the world, EU foreign policies, and transnational participatory democracy beyond EU borders.
The transnational panels welcome fruitful discussions and aim at collecting participants’ recommendations. The recommendations collected throughout the eight transnational Citiens’ Panels as well as the eight local ones, will be directly presented to EU high-level political representatives.
