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# Tomorrow's Europe: The launch debate panel
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/launch-panel/
- Published: 2007-09-19T12:09:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T10:24:12.000Z
- Author: J Clive Matthews
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![Tomorrow's Europe launch](https://www.opendemocracy.net/content/files/2026/04/1406368699_303c1fea0f_o_hG4RxXV-1776421369947.jpg)

Tomorrow's Europe launch

Seated amidst the grandeur of the Bibliotheque Solvay in Brussels, the Tomorrow's Europe event launched with a debate over such small and easily-answered topics as the nature of democracy and the future of the European Union. The very topics, in fact, that this blog hopes to discuss over the coming weeks.

With a panel featuring everyone from world statesmen to distinguished academics, it's easy to get overwhelmed, so who are they all? Well, from left to right in the above photo:

**Giuliano Amato** *(Italian Interior Minister and former Chairman of the European Convention on the Future of Europe)*

**Jens-Peter Bonde MEP** *(Co-Chairman of the Independence and Democracy Group in the European Parliament)*

**Valéry Giscard d'Estaing** *(former President of France and President of the European Convention on the Future of Europe)*

**Margot Wallström** *(Vice-President of the European Commission)*

**Stephen Boucher** *(Co-Secretary General of thinktank Notre Europe, organisers of the Tomorrow's Europe deliberative poll)*

**Henri Monceau** *(Programme Director for Transnational Governance and Deliberative Democracy at Notre Europe)*

**Professor James Fishkin** *(Chairman of the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University)*

**Professor Robert C Luskin** *(Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Deliberative Opinion Research at the University of Texas at Austin)*

**Marc-André Allard** *(Head of International Studies at polling firm and Tomorrow's Europe organisers TNS Sofres)*

Moderator **John Lloyd** *(former editor of the New Statesman, contributing editor at the Financial Times)*

So, who argued what and with whom? There's more to come...