European Commission

150 citizens from across the EU have spent the past three months discussing how Europe can be better prepared for future crises.

Last weekend in Brussels, they presented 20 recommendations to strengthen preparedness, covering areas such as crisis communication, education, resilience, inclusion, volunteering, and countering disinformation.

Their recommendations will now contribute to the implementation of the EU Preparedness Union Strategy. 🇪🇺

Continue the discussion 👉 https://link.europa.eu/gghTvC

May 27 at 10:00amWeb
Show threadThe_Universality5d ago
@EUCommission Migration to #OpenSource would certainly improve resiliency.
Show threadThe_Universality5d ago
@EUCommission Also, the one think that I like the soviet union was doing were the evacuation tests. Although the potential need for evacuation rather then being bombed bombed is fire, but I've experience a very light preventive evacuation test and only a few times. Lets introduce that back to schools.
Show threadHardy Erlinger5d ago
@EUCommission This is a great initiative. Let's hope these voices will actually be heard, especially if they conflict with corporate interests.
Show threaddocD5d ago
@EUCommission Tackle disinformation, starting with social media that are means for other countries to destabilize Europe. Why don't we have a powerful (there are plenty of small initiatives but scattered and hence insignificant atm) European alternative for TikTok, X, Facebook, Google, etc?
Show threadBloodaxe5d ago
@docdanny @EUCommission How would you avoid those European platforms just becoming propaganda-machines in their own rights? I think the only truly viable approach is the Fediverse (or similar initiative), where no central entity "owns" the SoMe/Protocol.
Show threaddocD5d ago
@bloodaxe @EUCommission Europe has better rules for privacy than the US. Will it be perfect? Nope, but better than what we have now. I didn't exclude Fediverse etc but to me it seems it has no leverage and is no counter weight for FB, X,...
Show threadBloodaxe3d ago
@docdanny @EUCommission If EU actually backed Fediverse, it would totaly have leverage against FB and X. The tech is not the issue, it's getting the people to use it - which would be the same problem for the EU regardless. Might as well build on top of something that is already there.
Show threadLegoBrickOnFire5d ago
@EUCommission
Direct link to the recommendations:
https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/document/download/18d21e80-380f-4acf-ba9b-3b0afe5cdd08_en?filename=Citizens%27%20Panel%20on%20Preparedness%20-%20final%20recommendations.pdf
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿5d ago

@EUCommission

This EU thingy sounds like the sort of organisation Wales should join!

Show threadPaul5d ago

@EUCommission that’s quite undemocratic if I may say so. The European Parliament already is a toothless tiger at best and apparently now the European Commission considers 150 citizens much more relevant than the EU-parliament.

Let's stay optimistic and solution oriented, shall we? I desperately would like to be able to vote for a Finish member of Parliament while being a Dutch national. The fact that I cannot do so, is deeply anti the idea of a European UNION.

Show threadMartin Bodlák 💙💛5d ago
@EUCommission stop talking about things, start doing them
Show threadit's me, Alex.5d ago
@EUCommission hey, the @europeanspodcast did a great episode about this lately. Great initiative and topic!
Show threadThe Europeans5d ago
@itsmealexander @EUCommission Thanks Alex! Here it is https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/can-a-group-of-strangers-solve-europes-biggest-problems
Can a group of strangers solve Europe’s biggest problems? — The Europeans

If you got a knock on your door from someone inviting you to Brussels to hash out some EU policies…you’d think it was a scam, right? Us, too. At least, that was the case until last week, when our producer Wojciech went to report on a European Citizens’ Panel, an event designed to allow 150 randomly

The Europeans
Show threadJamie5d ago
@EUCommission 150 out of 500,000,000? Not exactly representative. Leaves the EU looking even more dictatorial.