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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Europe's People's Forum (EPF)
EU Transparency Register
516884238508-73 First registered on 10 Jun 2020
Goals / Remit
The forum is implemented by the international non-profit organisation Europe’s People’s Forum (EPF), registered in Denmark, in collaboration with tentatively more than 50 active organisations from the 27 EU member states.
In the past, the European Union has engaged in several processes to discuss its policies and decisions with the European people, but without much success. The EU is still criticised for its democratic deficit in the European Council and the European Commission. These institutions are perceived by many to neglect people’s needs and concerns.
EPF aims to turn the traditional European policy process on its head by letting the people formulate its visions and policy proposals across the 27 member states and by advocating for them at a forum with European and national politicians and civil servants. It is the ambition that the forum will constitute Europe’s people’s counterpart to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The aim of Europe’s People’s Forum is to strengthen European democracy and engage the people and media in a debate of strategies and visions for the future EU together with other national European initiatives. This debate seeks to impact on the course of the EU and to better align future EU political strategies with the populations’ priorities.Main EU files targeted
The Conference on the Future of Europe is a joint process between the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Council with the leaders of the 27 member states. The EC and EP seem well in line with each other about the model, the governance of the process and the approach ensuring that citizens participate and engage in the actual policymaking. However, the Council has been quite hesitant to a process giving the EP too strong influence in the governance of the conference and has had significant internal disagreements on the possibility to include potential treaty changes in the mandate for the Conference. However, the expectations are that an agreement on the involvement of citizens could easily be reached.
Europe’s Peoples’ Forum has in its methodology for the Conference included an online platform to be used for the 450 million citizens to have influence on the priority of thematic issues that should be discussed and to allow feedback to the discussions in the Agora and to the developed policy proposals.
However, in the light of the current crisis it will be necessary to expand the use of online platform to include also deliberative processes at both local and national level. At least for 3 months but more realistically for the remaining part of 2020, when hopefully face2face consultations, and the thematic Agora and the Conference Plenary can take place under safe circumstances.
The EPF has proposed both to the political groups in the European Parliament and to Vice President Suica that the Conference should start up as planned on the 9th of May but remain online for a foreseeable period.
Further EPF has proposed as the first theme to include a citizen discussion of how at European level to have better mechanisms to react to the expected second wave of the Covid 19 and to future pandemics.Address
Head Office
Ryvangs Alle 18
Copenhagen Oe 2100
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 10 Jun 2020
Name Start date End Date Bent BONDE 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024 Bent BONDE 17 Jun 2022 17 Jun 2023 Complementary Information
When responsible for Europe wide consultations the Europe's People's Forum has its staff paid on a professional scale. When advocating for citizens engagement and for EU-wide citizens consultations the organisation has worked voluntarily.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
no
Member organisations
Europe's People's Forum has 50-60 national civil society organisations and 4 European umbrella organisations as members. Further it has in principle 27 technical partner organisations that are professional in the field of citizens' consultations.
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,000 € (Source: Europe for Citizens activities - travel and per diem)
Other financial info
Budget is mainly work in kind.
All costs related to travels to Brussels or of our office in Brussels have been paid by the secretary general as personal contribution to the organisation.
All work carried out by secretary general and by members of the board of EPF has been voluntarily and covered by other work income carried by the persons as such. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Citizens Looking for Multidimensional Migration Challenges (CITIMIG)
Europe’s Peoples’ Forum is an active partner in this 18 months project that has been co-financed by the Europe for Citizens programme. The project aims to promote citizen participation in the EU policy-making process regarding migration from different perspectives such as economic, security and environmental among others. The goal is to gather experts, citizens and political leaders to discuss, give their views and achieve a policy briefing together. Following this strategy, the project aims to be innovative, inclusive and interactive.
The project will involve citizens in the EU policy-making process and encourage them to take active role in initiating policy actions. Bringing at one table political leaders, experts and citizens, presenting each other their views on policies and measures, elaborating each aspect within small working groups, involving them in intense discussions, we wish them to come to conclusions what should best serve to citizens as well as to the future of Europe. With the project, we will enhance the bottom-up approach, empower citizens to better understand the EU policy-making process, foster mutual cooperation between citizens, raise the level of societal engagement and offer an open space for drafting policy proposals for better and common European politics.
Project partners
Paneuropean Movement Austria(lead partner)
Slovenian Paneuropean Movement
Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium
Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Spain
Europe's Peoples' Forum, Denmark
Paneuropean Union Montenegro
University of Catania, Italy
Institute of Advanced Studies, Hungary
Paneuropean Union Hungary
ESDES – Lyon Business School, France
JOINT CITIZENS’ FORCES – COMMON EUROPEAN FUTURE (JOCICEF)
Europe's People's Forum has been part of the project JOINT CITIZENS’ FORCES – COMMON EUROPEAN FUTURE (JOCICEF), co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union and under the auspices of the President of the European Parliament. The project aims at empowering European citizens and civil society organisations and offers them a platform for structural dialogue with the EU policy- and decision-makers on the common future in a turbulent and decisive period for European integration.
Project partners:
Slovenian Paneuropean Movement,
Austrian Paneuropean Movement,
Paneuropean Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Hungarian Paneuropean Union
Montenegrin Paneuropean Union
Mediterranean Affairs (Italy),
NATO Defense College Foundation (Italy),
Centre for European Policy Studies (Belgium), Transform – Centre for Conflict Engagement and Political Development (Germany),
Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (Spain), DIVERSITY (Slovakia)
Europe’s People’s Forum (Denmark/Belgium)Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
5 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 17 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of democracy package Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists - European Foundation Centre
- Civil Society Europe
- European Citizen Action Service
- Association Européenne pour la Démocratie Locale
- European Youth Forum
- Open Society European Policy Institute
- Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union
- Front Line Defenders
- European Partnership for Democracy
- Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe
- EU DisinfoLab
- European Civic Forum
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Date 02 Dec 2022 Location Brussels Subject Competition and digital policy. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Stina Soewarta (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Nov 2022 Location Online meeting Subject Discussion on the Feedback on the Furure of Europe and the presentation of the EPF’s proposal “The Democracy Partnership Pilot Project for Candidate countries”. Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2022 Location Online / Brussels Subject Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Colin Scicluna (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Oct 2020 Location Online meeting Subject Discussion on the update for Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)
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