The Conference on the Future of Europe is a series of citizen-led debates and discussions that enable people from across Europe to share their ideas and help shape our common European future. The European Citizens´panels are an integral part of the CoFoE.

The European Citizens’ Panel on "EU in the world / Migration" will meet at the European Institute for Public Administration in Maastricht and online to deliver its recommendations. In March, the Panel’s report - on the EU’s self-reliance and stability, its place in the world, and all aspects of migration-related issues - will be debated in a Conference Plenary session.

The panels bring together people from different walks of life. Citizens have been chosen randomly by specialist contractors on behalf of the EU institutions, using methodologies that ensure that they are representative of the EU's diversity in terms of geographic origin, gender, age, socioeconomic background and level of education. Young people between 16 and 25 make up one-third of each panel.

These citizens come up with ideas and recommendations that will feed into the overall Conference deliberations, in particular into the Conference Plenaries, and ultimately into the report on its final outcome. The European Citizens’ Panels kicked&nbsp;off with the first 200-citizen meeting 17-19 of September in Strasbourg.

The first sessions of all four Panels took&nbsp;place on&nbsp;Parliament’s premises in Strasbourg and began&nbsp;working on draft recommendations within each Panel’s remit. This first European Citizens’ Panel focused on a stronger economy, social justice, jobs/education, youth, culture, and sport/digital transformation, based on citizens’ contributions collected from across Europe on a Multilingual Digital Platform, as well as support and presentations from prominent academics. The second European Citizens’ Panel focused&nbsp;on European democracy/values, rights, the rule of law, and security. The third panel´s agenda was&nbsp;climate change, environment and health. The fourth on the EU in the world/migration.

Also, the Panels are meeting in four European academic institutions (Dublin, Florence, Natolin/Warsaw, and Maastricht) to finalise their recommendations so they can be discussed at the Conference Plenary.

From 25-27 February&nbsp;the final European Citizens' Panels covering ‘A stronger economy, social justice and jobs / Education, culture, youth and sport / Digital transformation' was held in Dublin. The recommendations will be debated at the Conference Plenary in early March, alongside recommendations from the Panel on 'EU in the world / migration', and from national panels and events.

European Citizens’ Panels

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event - Afternoon session

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event - Press Conference

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event - Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference

Preparing the COFOE Follow up - A way forward for citizens panels

AFCO Interparliamentary Committee Meeting - First results of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Closing Event - Press conference

Parliament, Council and Commission host a feedback event in Parliament's premises in Brussels. In exchanges with representatives of the institutions, citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference have the chance to review and comment on what the institutions have done since the Conference's proposals were delivered in May. Closing remarks by Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE), Mikuláš BEK, Czech Minister for European Affairs, Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of promoting our European Way of Life. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: closing remarks by Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE), Mikuláš BEK, Czech Minister for European Affairs, Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission

Press point by Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE), Mikuláš BEK, Czech Minister for European Affairs and Dubravka ŠUICA, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Democracy and Demography after the end of the Feedback Event of the Conference on the Future of Europe. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: Joint Press point by Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE), Mikuláš BEK, Czech Minister for European Affairs and Dubravka ŠUICA, Vice-President of the European Commission

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, meets and exchanges with citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). Arrivals, meeting with the EP Preisent and family picture.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference

Parliament, Council and Commission host a feedback event in Parliament's premises in Brussels. In exchanges with representatives of the institutions, citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference have the chance to review and comment on what the institutions have done since the Conference's proposals were delivered in May.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: extracts from the opening statements and atmosphere shots

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: Sharing of Experience: sharing of experience by citizens, presentation of the feedback by the political representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: sharing of experience by citizens, presentation of the feedback by the political representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission

Parliament, Council and Commission host a feedback event in Parliament's premises in Brussels. In exchanges with representatives of the institutions, citizens who participated in the European Citizens' Panels during the Conference have the chance to review and comment on what the institutions have done since the Conference's proposals were delivered in May. Opening speech by Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Conference on the Future of Europe - Feedback Event: opening speech by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

&lt;p>This infoclip hilights the main events of the Conference on the Future of Europe, from the signature of the beginning of the process on March 2021 in Brussels by David SASSOLI, former EP President, Ursula von der LEYEN, EC President and Antonio COSTA, Portugese Prime Minister, going through all citizens panels in Florence, Natolin, Maastricht and Dublin, to the final closing event on 9 May 2022, in Strasbourg.&lt;/p>

Infoclip: Conference on the Future of Europe outcome - highlights from the CoFoE events

MEPs call for a first set of specific changes to the European Union’s founding documents, to ensure citizens’ expectations will be met. Throughout the 12 months of the Conference on the Future of Europe, a few key areas of institutional reform were brought up, such as the abolition of unanimity voting in the Council in most areas, and the expansion of EU powers in health and energy, among others. Extracts from the debate and from the vote.

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