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KARAKOL
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
Thirsting for Democracy, at One of World's Largest Freshwater Lakes
Image credit: 1824 painting of Anglo-Ashanti war. Public domain.
CANBERRA
READINGS The Honest Search for Democracy Is Endless
A Bigger, Science-Based Vision of Self-Government
Netherlands
Long Read: Abolishing the referendum? How and why the Netherlands is...
Using controversial legal tricks, the Dutch government is trying to abolish the law for citizen-initiated...
European Union
Open Letter to the European Parliament: Make the European Citizens’...
On 20 June, the Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) of the European Parliament will will vote on the...
Italy
Report on Milan Networking Meeting on Empowering Citizens for the Future...
With only one year to go until the next European elections, civil society organisations across Europe are...
Germany
"No one should be angry"
On May 5 it finally happened: the first event of the NRW tour of the European Public Sphere took place in...
European Union
The challenging making of the European Citizens’ Initiative
“Take the Initiative!” This request by the European Commission to all citizens of the European Union marks...
European Union
An online platform to support ECIs
At ECI Day this week, the European Commission announced the launch of a new online platform to support...
European Union
Under construction: the ECI
This year's European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) Day showed once again that the world's first and only...
European Union
ECI Day 2018: Working together
On April 10, 2018, the ECI Day took place in Brussels for the seventh time, with the main organiser and host...
European Union
“We are fighting with unequal means”
In a last-minute bit of good news ahead of this year’s ECI Day, the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’...
Taiwan
How Taiwan got one of world´s best direct democracy laws
The first European explorers from Portugal called this land simply Ilha Formosa, the beautiful island. Today...