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2021
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I. Corona chance: Our new Europe now!
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2023
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II. Democratic implementation -
referenda!
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We citizens across Europe use the crises in the EU as chances to strengthen democracy, peace, freedom, security and welfare in Europe and in the world! - Together, bottom-up, with referendа:
Our new, diverse, democratic Europe has to be created democratically, bottom-up - with us citizens. It has to be based on a new Constitution. This Constitution will be drafted and adopted by a Constitutional Council, elected by the citizens in all participating countries, who will then ratify it and put it into force in a referendum.
The new Constitution defines the concept of direct democracy for our new Europe (ONE) with variable geometry, including: A politically integrated European economic, fiscal and monetary union (EEU); a European common market / new economic area (EEA); a vast free-trade union; an effective, efficient and humanitarian European refugee union; and a common European foreign, security and defence policy of the willing countries.
Decisive for this democratic, diverse Europe are constitutionally defined common values and objectives, the rights and duties of its citizens (fundamental and civil rights, incl. referenda and popular initiatives), as well as the principles of the separation of powers, subsidiarity and federalism (according to the German definition of a decentralized country, a confederation). In this regard, the draft at hand relies especially on the Swiss Constitution. Compared to to-day’s Switzerland, the CES however will be:
In comparison with today's EU, our new Europe is:
Constitution for Our New Europe - Preamble “For our democratic and diverse, strong and peaceful, prospering, sustainable and subsidiary, free and fair Europe, open to all European countries (Our New Europe, ONE), the citizens of the participating States adopt the following Constitution: ...” |
There is no true democracy without mutual trust between the state and its citizens - and there is no better way to create and reinforce such a trust than referenda - since:
Nothing strengthens the interest of us citizens in Europe, our commitment to Europe, our sense of belonging together and our democratic responsibility for our new Europe, as well as our certainty to be taken seriously by this Europe, like regular constitutionally determined referenda, in which we citizens throughout Europe can decide (after open, fair, instructive, often fierce, yet always respectful campaigns) all essential European issues! - Switzerland shows this every quarter!
On the other hand, nothing frustrates, offends and hurts us citizens more than politicians who ignore, disregard, reject, launch - or misuse referenda for their own purposes and careers, or even repeat them, until the results suit them! - Unfortunately, this happens time and again - not only in the EU!
All attempts of "Brussels" and of our politicians to impose their increasingly powerful and centralized Europe top-down, without consultig us citizens in referenda (e.g. European Constitution 2003), or even against the citizens' decisions in national referenda (e.g. France and the Netherlands (Constitution 2005), are doomed to failure because of Europe's immense cultural, political and historic diversity and the resistance of us, empowered citizens and convinced Europeans!
We citizens must empower ourselves and assume our resposibility for our new Europe by giving each and every one of us a voice, so that we can implement it, by means of referenda, bottom-up: We'll have the last word on all main issues (e.g. constitution, crises, new members); and we'll effectively control our politicians and authorities and, if necessary, sanction them - with the ballot sheet!
Referenda emancipate us citizens; they discipline our politicians and they demoratize Europe, including Eastern Europe!
We citizens shall ensure with the sword of Damocles of permanently threatening referenda, that our European peace project will be implemented quickly and democratically: