The College of Europe in Natolin is hosting on its premises the third session of the European Citizens’ Panel “Climate change, environment/health”, from 7 to 9 January 2022. The Conference on the Future of Europe is a citizen-led series of debates and discussions that enable people from across Europe to share their ideas and help shape a common European future. The European Citizens´ panels are an integral part of the CoFoE.

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Conference on the Future of Europe - Panel 3 "Climate change, Environment / Health": Ambiance of the arrivals - Statements

Palace of Culture and Science - Warsaw (Poland)

Citizens participating to the panel arriving and collecting badges

Atmosphere in the meeting room before the beginning of the opening session

Moderators welcoming the citizens and opening the plenary session

SOUNDBITE (Polish), Tomasz Bratek, Deputy mayor of Warsaw, on behalf of President Rafał Trzaskowski. I would like to welcome you in Warsaw which we think is the most beautiful city of Poland. A city open to everyone. It is a city open to challenges, a city that seeks to be together with its citizens. We try to implement such management methods that will engage our residents as much as possible.

SOUNDBITE (French), Safia, French - Member of the citizen panel, My presence today in Warsaw is, in the end, the apotheoses. We will come out with concrete proposals that I hope can be heard and made available.

SOUNDBITE (French), Safia, French - Member of the citizen panel, My feeling is a positive feeling. It is already historic part to take part to this event. Europe has always been criticized for not consulting citizens, and this has been an opportunity to do so, and we are grateful for that.

SOUNDBITE (French), Safia, French - Member of the citizen panel, My expectations are that these proposals can be raised to the next level, be heard, of course, and put into practice. We don't expect that everything will be put into practice in full because it's a pretty heavy machine, all that. But on the other hand, let the needs expressed by citizens

SOUNDBITE (English), Brian, Irish - Member of the panel, So in Strasbourg, I think it was a nice opportunity to meet a lot of people and it was very different because we didn't really know where the ideas were going to be going. Everyone brought everything together, but I think the online session was a bit different too, because, you know, we were put into the suburbs, but we didn't really know what direction it would take. But now that we're here, we can really see that everything's come together, we can see the streams, the substreams, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what direction they take now.

SOUNDBITE (German), Lars, German - Member of the panel, So our first session in Strasbourg was more for people to get to know each other better, to develop very rough formulations, how best to continue working on what the future of the EU should look like.

SOUNDBITE (German), Lars, German - Member of the panel, During the second sessiononline, what took place there, it was largely about the formulation. And now, I hope that concrete formulations will come out on Sunday, with which politicians can also work. That it also has an impact on future legislation. That the EU can draw conclusions from how best to work in the future and that citizens are also well involved. 