Conference on the Future of Europe

Since the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) has been announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EPC has played an active role in promoting the CoFoE, analysing the debate around it, and giving recommendations to set up a successful Conference process. The EPC will continue to closely monitor and analyse the Conference, provide recommendations to policymakers and organisers, and follow up on the outcome.

Based on the EPC’s extensive past work in the context of citizens’ participation, the team will observe and evaluate the citizens’ participation processes of the Conference on local, national and transnational level and give recommendations on how to structurally improve the involvement of citizens in the EU’s policy-making processes. By means of cooperation of all six EPC programmes, we will contribute to the Conference discussions with independent policy advice in all issues that will be discussed during the one-year process, including the monitoring of the institutional reform debate.