I suggest that the Charter should begin as follows:
Democratic Euro-vision
Purpose: To establish and maintain a coalition of European groups and organisations who accept certain common principles and will give moral support to one another with efforts to democratize their respective countries. The only requirement for you to become a member of the coalition is to confirm that you adhere to the Charter.
(Definition of Direct Democracy. It should be stressed that, in some cases, citizen Deliberation (Planning Cells/citizen Juries) should be included in the referendum proces as well as in the legislation adopted by Representative Bodies.)
Comment: In this respect we would differ from the Swiss-German movement which wants to exclude deliberation and focuses on I&R alone. We believe that this is not sufficient and could discourage many people who maintain that decisions made by simple referenda might not be qualified. The inclusion of deliberation removes this objection. Jiri
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Thankyou Jiri
as a matter of fact the only really important link among our movement is the pursuit of real direct democracy.
As you underline properly we are not satisfied with the target IRI has given for itself.
As far as the way to reach Direct Democracy, I think at this time any movement can propose its one.
Experience will show which one is the best one,or problably several of them can be followed at the same time.
Our prime concern today should be spreading the idea, all the rest will come on its own.
Keep well
Federico
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