What happened?
What should the next European Parliament and Commission focus their mandate on? We believe it should be on delivering a Renewed Social Contract, which rethinks the ways in which citizens, the private sector, civil society and public institutions interact for public good.
Friends of Europe captured the need for a Renewed Social Contract in the form of 10 policy choices for a Renewed Social Contract for Europe, which we launched in the European Parliament in Strasbourg (WEISS S2.2) on 28 February (16.00 to 17.00 CET). These policy choices are supported by findings from focus groups with 2,024 citizens in 7 European countries, the outcomes of which are captured in Debating Europe’s 2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up! report.
What better way to launch policy choices than to debate them?
Confirmed MEPs included our co-hosts for this event MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, member of the European People’s Party (EPP), MEP Brando Benifei, member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Heidi Hautala, Vice-President and Member of the European Parliament, and MEP Dragoș Tudorache, member of Renew Europe.
Our report is a product of collective inputs from a broad coalition of partners and sectors across Europe and the world. Because we believe not joining up the dots in the next EU mandate is not an option, we are launching 10 policy choices.
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Related content:
- Report | 10 policy choices for a Renewed Social Contract for Europe
- Report | 2024 Voices – Citizens Speak Up!
- Initiative | Renewed Social Contract
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PICTURE CREDIT: Friends of Europe
Schedule
- Is it time to change how decisions are made? (e.g. how we include citizens into decision-making)
- How should members of parliaments improve trust?
- How can we expect the management of AI and other digital technologies to influence European competitiveness, address climate change, and affect the cost-of-living crisis? Is there a trade-off between how we manage AI and the other areas?
Co-hosts
Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou
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Former Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, and Trustee of Friends of Europe
Brando Benifei
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Member of the European Parliament
Brando Benifei is a Member of the European Parliament and is the Head of the Italian S&D MEP Delegation. Benifei was also the Co-Chair of the MEP Heart Group, where he worked to raise cardiovascular diseases as a priority on the EU political agenda. A former member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), he was the rapporteur for the Single Market Programme and shadow rapporteur for the European Social Fund Plus. Benifei received the MEP Award for his work on employment, social affairs and youth unemployment.
Heidi Hautala
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Vice-President and Member of the European Parliament
Dragoș Tudorache
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Member of Cabinet of European Commission Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné and former Chair of the European Parliament Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age
Dragoș Tudorache is currently working in the European Commission as the diplomatic adviser to the Executive Vice-President Stephane Séjourné, and is responsible for economic security and technological sovereignty. He was previously a member of the European Parliament and vice-president of the Renew Europe Group, serving as the LIBE rapporteur on the AI Act and as chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age. Tudorache began his career as a judge in Romania, and he has led legal departments at the OSCE and the UN missions in Kosovo. After working on justice and anticorruption at the European Commission Delegation in Romania, he joined the Commission and managed several units and strategic projects. In 2015, Dragos joined the Romanian Government led by Dacian Cioloș, serving as Head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Minister of Communications and Digital Society and Minister of the Interior.
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