Party: | EGP Committee, on behalf of the Green Taskforce on the Future of Europe |
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R3: Conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe: Time has come to deliver and build Europe better
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- AM-46-1 Miljöpartiet de gröna
- AM-16-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-6-1 Die Grünen
- AM-5-10 Die Grünen
- AM-13-1 Die Grünen
- AM-14-1 Die Grünen
- Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-17-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-28-1 Groen
- AM-16-2 Partido Ecologista Os Verdes
- AM-1-8 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-7-1 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-8-10 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-13-2 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-9-9 EGP Committee
The European Union is living in unprecedented times. It has never been more
needed and it has never needed changes more than now.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has cost millions of lives, deepened social
injustices, and put our societies at risk. It has shown the fatal impacts of our
abusive exploitation of natural resources and our short-term profit-driven
model. It has shown even more clearly the unsustainability of our trade models
and of the underfinancing of public services. It has shown how vital European
coordination and solidarity are, and how there will be no just recovery without
them.
As we were progressively recovering from this crisis, Vladimir Putin’s regime
conducted an aggressive, imperialistic and unjustifiable fully-fledged invasion
of Ukraine – a war against a sovereign and democratic country and a war against
the core values of the European Union. This war is showing at the greatest cost
the need for a Common Foreign and Defence Policy, fossil fuel independence,
energy transition and a more united European Union on the global stage.
This war also puts us, Europeans, in front of the mirror.
In bombarded Kyiv, in a country resisting to survive, President Zelenskyy did
not only ask for support, but he signed the request for Ukraine to join the
European Union. This powerful choice, that Ukrainians have repeatedly expressed,
reminds us of what the European project is, how much the values on which it has
been built matter, and how these need to be defended and reinforced daily.
It reminds us why it is so important that the EU becomes stronger, more
efficient, more united.
This will be only possible with citizens and thanks to them.
Many times in the past, the future of Europe was decided behind closed doors and
citizens were only consulted at the end of the process, after intergovernmental
negotiations. This approach has contributed to fuelling mistrust as well as
overlooking citizens’ demands and needs.
For us Greens, citizen participation is key in shaping the Europe we want in the
future. This is why we have supported the process of the Conference on the
Future of Europe since day one. This is also why we fought for real citizen
participation and for an inclusive process.
We value and welcome the work and engagement shown by citizens, organised civil
society and members of parliaments throughout the duration of the Conference.
We welcome the conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe and the
clear ambition that citizens have shown to move Europe towards a green, social
and democratic future.
We especially welcome those proposals that have been agreed to and that are key
for a more progressive and sustainable future for our continent, such as:
- Reducing dependencies from oil and gas imports through energy efficiency
projects, ; support of affordable public transport, high-speed rail and
freight network, expansion of clean and renewable energy provision;
- AM-58-1 Miljöpartiet de gröna
- AM-56-1 Miljöpartiet de gröna
- AM-55-1 Partido Ecologista Os Verdes
- AM-55-2 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-56-2 EGP Committee
- Democratic changes like the end of unanimity, i.e. the abolition of
vetoes, the introduction of transnational lists, the strengthening of
transparency in decision-making, and a broader right of access to
documents, in particular in Council;
- Independence from oil and gas imports by replacing them with renewable
energies by Speeding up the green transition, in particular through more
European investments;
- Right to affordable energy, to access to the internet, to minimum social
standards, including minimum pensions, access to social housing when
needed, better and harmonised rights at birth of children and for families
for marriage and adoption;
- Ensuring that social rights take precedence in case of conflict with
economic freedoms, including via the introduction of a social progress
protocol in the Treaties;
- Guaranteeing that large companies should be taxed properly, tax havens in
the EU should be abolished;
- The Rule of Law should be protected more effectively, including by making
the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights universally applicable and
enforceable;
- European Trade agreements with third countries should be in line with the
Paris Agreement and address serious human rights issues. Trade should
become a true means to an end, and no longer an end in itself.
- AM-84-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-80-1 Europe Ecologie - Les Verts
- AM-83-1 Federation of Young European Greens
- AM-84-2 EGP Committee
The Conference on the Future of Europe process has confirmed that it is both
possible and necessary to include citizens in a participatory way. It has
created innovative tools for citizens’ participation and for inclusive
deliberation. It has demonstrated that building more democratic and accountable
institutions requires the introduction of new instruments for the participation
of citizens in EU decision-making.
As the Conference on the Future of Europe nears its end, the European Greens:
- Call on all responsible institutions, including national governments, to
deliver by following up on the clear demands posed by the Conference.
- AM-87-1 Miljöpartiet de gröna
- AM-89-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-90-1 Europa Verde - Verdi
- AM-90-2 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- Call on all relevant actors to approve the reform of the European
electoral law and fully implement it in time to establish a transnational
constituency and draw up transnational lists in the 2024 European
elections.
- As numerous demands require Treaty change to be implemented, call on the
European Parliament to use Article 48 of the Treaty on the European Union
to start a Treaty change procedure via a European Convention and call on
the European Council to follow up on it.
- Commit to base our work in our common manifesto for the 2024 European
elections on the demands formulated by the citizens in the Conference on
the Future of Europe.
- Call on all Greens elected at the local, regional, national or European
level to implement the conclusions of the Conference on the Future of
Europe wherever they have the capacity to do so, and to actively
communicate on its conclusions to provide support, understanding and
ownership across the electorate.
Amendments
- 1059 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- 1051 (Die Grünen)
- AM-1-7 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-1-8 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-5-10 (Die Grünen)
- AM-6-1 (Die Grünen)
- AM-7-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-8-10 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-9-9 (EGP Committee)
- AM-13-1 (Die Grünen)
- AM-13-2 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-14-1 (Die Grünen)
- AM-16-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-16-2 (Partido Ecologista Os Verdes)
- AM-17-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-28-1 (Groen)
- AM-46-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-55-1 (Partido Ecologista Os Verdes)
- AM-55-2 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-56-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-56-2 (EGP Committee)
- AM-58-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-59-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-59-2 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-61-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-62-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-69-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-70-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-73-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-80-1 (Europe Ecologie - Les Verts)
- AM-83-1 (Federation of Young European Greens)
- AM-84-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-84-2 (EGP Committee)
- AM-86-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-87-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-89-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-90-1 (Europa Verde - Verdi)
- AM-90-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-91-1 (Die Grünen)
- AM-91-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-95-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-95-2 (Groen)
- AM-98-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-101-1 (Miljöpartiet de gröna)
- AM-101-2 (Europe Ecologie - Les Verts)