Published: May 9th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
Covid, war and low audience interest: For a long time, the Conference on the Future of Europe led a quiet existence. The four citizen panels with 800 randomly selected participants from the 27 EU countries had to meet mainly online because of the pandemic. The first results of the work were lost in the rage of the Ukraine war. And an online platform set up specifically for this purpose attracted little attention, even from EU professionals in Brussels.