The Conference on the Future of Europe as a technopopulist experiment
22 March 2022
Despite calls to permanently integrate citizens’ assemblies in EU decision making to improve the quality of our transnational democracy, the Conference on the Future of Europe is arguably exacerbating the two main trends that challenge EU legitimacy in the first place: technocracy and populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti and Federico Ottavio Reho in their op-ed for RevDem claim that political parties and other intermediary bodies are central for the democratization of the European Union.
