Thread by @alemannoEU

🧵 Over the last 6 months, 800 randomly-selected EU citizens came up with 178 recommendations addressed to EU leaders

How many of them require Treaty change to become a reality?

(Spoiler: just a few)

A 🧵based on empirical work done @VillaVigoni
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1. As the end of #CoFoE approaches (May 9), the question arises as to whether/how the EU will/should respond.

What form that response should take?

As we expect that response to be conditioned by the nature of recs proposed, here's a preliminary break out of the 178 recs.

2. We’ve browsed all 178 recs from the 4 Citizens' Panels, and classified them into 4 categories:

1. Recs not requiring new action (23)
2. Recs entailing new action by MS (21)
3. Recs entailing new action by EU (113)
4. Recs entailing Treaty change (21)

#CoFoE

3. Among the 21 recs requiring Treaty Change, they call for transfer of new competences in:
1. Welfare (7)
2. Education (5)
3. Institutional reforms (4)
4. Health care (2)
5. Taxation (2)
6. Energy (1)

#CoFoE

4. The % of recs requiring Treaty Change is approx. 12%, what falls in between the lower figure given by a Dutch member of the plenary (10%) and the higher one given by @VeraJourova 's staff (nearly 50%) #CoFoE euractiv.com/section/future…

5. There's so much that can be done under the Lisbon Treaty, as well as through MS's coordination as symbolized by ongoing discussions re: joint procurement

6. The 178 recommendations are currently examined by the Plenary - mixing citizens (ambassadors of original panels) with elected decision-makers and civil society orgs - under still undefined methodology.

By end of April we should know which recs 'll integrate final proposal

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