Euro Agora is a subsidiary of Sustensis focusing on reforming democracy. You can watch a short introduction to Euro Agora by clicking on the video.
Sustensis created this website specifically to support Conference on the Future of Europe – a one year long project run in 2021-2022 by the European Union. It was the largest Citizen-driven project to define the scope of constitutional changes in the current Lisbon Treaty. The main tabs on the website Main menu follows the Debating Panels on ‘Democracy Theme”. One of Sustensis consultants was registered on the EU on-line platform to participate in that debate using Consensus AI platform, another subsidiary of Sustensis. Consensus AI was mirroring the deliberations, enabling, the iterative refinement of 11 proposals, which were filed on the Conference’s on-line platform.
One of the proposals to establish the EU’s Citizens’ Senate aimed for more structured and continuous input from the EU citizens on EU policies.
To reform democracy we should rediscover its roots when it was practiced at the Athenian Agora 2,500 years ago. Like then, we may need to ask a question which system of governance serves human needs best. Thanks to the latest technology it may now be possible to create a new type of democracy, by merging the best features of direct democracy and representational democracy into a Consensual Presidential Democracy. It is a system of democracy aimed at governing with maximum consensus, where the voice of the ‘losing’ minority is always taken into account. It gives the President exceptionally strong powers against the strongest accountability and recall procedures. It enables him to play a crucial role as a conciliator and moderator between two opposing parties, each represented by one Vice President. An important part of such democracy is consensus. That is why all debates, e.g. at Citizens Assemblies, can be supported by our AI-enabled Consensusal Debating.
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