European Union, employment and democracy

7 February 2014, less than 4 months before the next European elections, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute and the European Movement – France organised the third debate of their cycle “Droit d’inventaire – Droit d’inventer”, in La Rochelle in the euro-constituency West, on the themes democracy and employment.

Three major issues were pointed out:

• Citizenship : solutions for citizen apathy
• Democracy: renewed powerto manage the breakdown of the representative system
• Employment : waging a political battle