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Conference on the Future of Europe: the MOT’s proposals to promote cross-border issues
November 2021
The Conference on the Future of Europe, launched on 9 May 2021, is an unprecedented exercise in participatory democracy open to all the citizens of the 27 Member States. An interactive and multilingual digital platform enables everyone to take part in the discussions, express ideas and organise events.
Link to the interactive platform.
In order to highlight cross-border issues in the challenges for tomorrow’s Europe, the MOT has published four proposals there:
- To foster more ambitious cooperation in the area of higher education and research in cross-border regions.
- Air pollution: setting up a single European system of environmental display stickers for all vehicles.
- Greater investment to create a genuine “Europe of rail” in order to connect up border regions.
- To develop places to inform European citizens about cross-border public services and to listen to their border-related difficulties.
The Committee of the Regions has also highlighted a number of proposals from its resolution on the future of cross-border cooperation up to 2050, which constitutes its official contribution to the Conference on the Future of Europe.
Many other citizen-initiated proposals relating to cross-border issues are online in the platform’s thematic sections.
The MOT is inviting players involved in cross-border cooperation to take part in it and to support these proposals.
It wishes to ensure that account is taken of cross-border cooperation in these discussions and, to this end, it is advocating cross-border citizens’ consultations.
The Conference on the Future of Europe will deliver its conclusions during France’s presidency of the EU in the first half of 2022.
- Note on the Conference on the Future of Europe [FR]
- Note on France’s presidency of the EU Council [FR]
Photo: European Union / Dati Bendo
