On 9 May 2020 we celebrated the 70 years of the Schuman Declaration. A conference on the “future of Europe” should have been launched on this day but was delayed till September by the European Commission because of the Covid-19 sanitary crisis. It should last 2 years, and it is one of the main priorities of the Von der Leyen Commission.
During the press conference of 22 January, Dubravka Suica, vice-president of the Commission for democracy and demography, promised to focus on the citizen’s base and to make the conference accessible to citizens all over the EU. “This is different from normal. We are committed to an open dialogue and to translate the conference’s conclusions into concrete judicial acts” – she announced.
In December, the Financial Times labelled the “Future of Europe” conference as “the last inspiration of the French president Emmanuel Macron to relaunch European democracy”.
