Mission
- To bring people closer to each other and to Europe through breaking stereotypes, analysing and deconstructing conflict, engaging actively in key political issues and dialogue.
- To raise awareness of the EU & prospective EU citizens on available channels for acting, participating & shaping Europe, through monitoring and informing on discussions and decisions of European Union’s executive and legislative branches
- To apply pressure to EU mechanisms for the expansion of participation of EU & prospective EU citizens in the European process
- To provide multi-disciplinary approaches and integrate fragmented knowledge into a fruitful scheme
Vision
We strongly believe in the idea
of a
European Union. However, after decades of a painful and abrupt process of
European integration, we have come to ask ourselves, “what kind of Europe” we should wish for? In our universe of beliefs
and perceptions, we cherish the European Union as a starting point for a number
of important accomplishments, both in the continent and globally, related to
the promotion of peace, the mobility of people and values, the exchange of
culture and knowledge. At the same time, we feel growing concern for the high
bureaucratization, narrow legitimacy and public apathy that define European
affairs, setting off from peoples’ ignorance as well as a system of increased
complexity that disenchants citizens and disinclines their participation.
We believe this is not the only way.
And we believe that the way for breaching with the existing, self-maintaining
realities of EU policy making is the active involvement and participation of
the driving force, the object and subject of the European Union; and that is
its people. For, we believe that “No kind
of Europe” can be created without their inclusion. We envisage a sexier Europe for its constituencies, an
inclusive Europe, a transparent Europe, a peaceful Europe, a growing Europe,
Europe of people with a common sense of belonging.
