Inspired by the positive experience with the Citizens’ Assembly in Ireland, Mehr Demokratie and the Schöpflin Foundation, together with the independent process support institutes Nexus and IFOK, are organizing a Citizens’ Council for Democracy in 2019.
With this pilot project, which is unique at the federal level, they want to develop proposals to strengthen and further develop Germany’s democracy in close connection with politics. The recommendations of the Citizens’ Council are to be submitted to a Commission of Experts on Democracy and to the Bundestag for consultation.