Direct Democracy

Note: This text is a personal construct of ideas – not a finished political master plan, but food for thought for a Europe that does not wait for the next shock, but looks out for one another in time. Europe 1.0 was an economic and peace project. That was not wrong – on the contrary: after the rubble of two World Wars, peace was the greatest thing this continent could achieve. It just wasn’t finished yet. ...

Note: This text is purely a construct of ideas and a thought experiment – not a finished constitutional draft, but an impulse for further thinking. Europe does not have a leadership problem. It has a design problem. Ursula von der Leyen is not the problem. The system that produced her is the problem. Appointed, not elected. Accountable to bodies that nobody can name. A face without a mandate. That is not a communication problem. That is how it is written in the treaties. ...