The Conference on the Future of Europe aims to produce proposals for EU ureform in a participatory manner. Yet, writes Markus Patberg, its setup suggests top-down steering, and lacks a clear conception of democratic authorisation. The envisaged forms of broad but unsystematic inclusion might even be counterproductive to the declared goal of empowering citizens
Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Theory, University of Hamburg
Markus' research interests include democratic theory, questions of constituent power, the work of Jürgen Habermas, and the political theory of the European Union.
