EU: Giscard: Europe needs a people’s congress (euractiv, link) Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments: "Interesting thoughts from Valéry Giscard d'Estaing but the "People's Congress" idea is only about meetings of European and national parliaments supplemented
EU: Giscard: Europe needs a people’s congress (euractiv, link) Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments:
“Interesting thoughts from Valéry Giscard d’Estaing but the “People’s Congress” idea is only about meetings of European and national parliaments supplemented by monthly meetings of EU leaders – this is still a “top-down” approach and will not solve “the lack of a European public space” which requires openness, transparency, accountability, a comprehensible decision-making process, enforceable adherence to fundamental rights, and encouraging diversity and dissent.“