Dimopolis - Δημόπολις

GLOBAL NETWORK OF ORGANIZATIONS (NOT NATIONAL, NOT EUROPEAN) AND THE IMPORTANCE OF

THIS.

CIVIC PROBLEM SOLVING - EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING :

DEMOCRACY MODELS

WEB PLATFORMS (EX. "SOCIOCRACY" OR "ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENTS") CAN HELP SPREADING DD

PRINCIPLES.

GLOSSARY, NECESSARY TO DEFINE TERMS WE USE FOR WDDM COMMUNITY.

What do Europeans really want? Lower taxes? Longer holidays? More chocolate? We may soon find out thanks to a new innovation in the European Union: citizens' initiatives.

Meant to bring everyday Europeans closer to the E.U. institutions that govern them in distant Brussels, the direct democracy experiment allows citizens to sling their concerns onto the E.U. agenda. The principle is simple: if campaigners muster 1 million signatures for a proposal, they can ask the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive branch, to write new legislation. "This is all about taking the E.U. outside of the Brussels beltway and giving it full democratic expression," said Maros Sefcovic, the E.U. commissioner in charge of putting the proposal into place. "The E.U. often stands accused of complexity and detachment from its citizens. Fostering a lively cross-border debate about what we are doing in Brussels will lead to better rule-making, inspired by the grass roots." (See pictures of immigration in Europe.)

You  have  also  my  best and  warmest  wishes  for  the  New  year 2010, that  happens  to be  the 10 years Jubileum  since  the  Establishment  of WDDM in Delphi, GREECE and  we plan  to  organize  in Greece  the  5th  Int. Congress on DD from Sept. 15, 2010 (International  Day  of  Democracy ) until  Sep. 19, 2010.

Are  you  going  to participate and  assist  us  in the  Organising Committee  of this  event? Everybody  interested may  express  his  interest  for a small lecture, ideas  for the  agenda and participation in this  Organising  Committee of the  next WDDM  Congress during  next  January.

Can you assist us  Miroslav by  publishing this open Invitation for  a direct democratic  debate about   this  Congress through  all  WDDM  electronic  channels (site, Forum etc.) ?