A presentation at Republica Berlin by Anthony Zacharzewski (Demsoc) and Karen Melchior.

1. Networking [European]
Democracy
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1. Fingers crossed: More
leaflets, then they’ll
understand

3. 2. Back to the 50s !
(or before)
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3. Once more from the top:
A constitutional convention

5. 4. I want to tell you a
narrative: A series of
conferences
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5. Occupy Europe (let
500 million General
Assemblies bloom)

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We risk a crisis that
undoes the gains of
sixty years.

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By Christmas, we’ll
have a new Parliament
and Commission: a
fresh start

9. From our experiments…
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10. Lewes
Using existing networks
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11. A different campaign
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12. NHS Citizen
Networked participation infrastructure
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13. Networking
democracy
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Open, organic
and collaborative
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but with the structure
democracy needs

15. Institutions that
behave differently
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New!
Improved!

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How?
• Work outside the Brussels bubble
• Multiple small engagements not big
staged conferences*
• Make networks of networks
• Ten commandments of new politics for
the new Commission and Parliament

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So … over to you
• What should we do ?
• What should we demand ?
• Stay involved : demsoc.org/europe