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1. Confidence
Referenda are the best weapon to establish mutual trust between Europe and us citizens! They will empower us - and transform our politicians into true servants of the people, willing to fight for peace, freedom, democracy and human rights!
Nothing strengthens our trust in our authorities, our certainty that we are taken seriously by "Europe", our sense of
belonging together and our political commitment as much as constitutionally stipulated referenda - as the Swiss have proven many times a year, since more than a
century!
Nothing, however destroys our trust in politics more than politicians who ignore, disregard or reject
referenda - regardless on which level - and misuse them for their own purposes, or even have them repeated until the results suit them! - As this unfortunately happens again and
again, in Europe, too!
2. A New Constitution
The Constitution for our new, diverse, democratic, somewhat "Swiss-like" Europe must meet the following three criteria:
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The Constitution has to be created democratically,
i.e. by a Constitutional Council elected by us citizens - and then ratified by us in a referendum in every country - and finally put into force in accordance with
national law!
That's why the EU "Constitution" 2001-2009 should in an case not have been drawn up by a "European Convention", not elected by us
citizens, and then it should above all not have been put into force by "Brussels" - despite the negative results of the referenda held in Ireland, France and the Netherlands
in 2005 - as the 454-page "Lisbon Treaty"!
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The Constitution has to be short and easy to understand, especially for ordinary citizens -
like the present draft, which is inspired by the Swiss Federal Constitution and only 16 pages long! - All details have
to be regulated by laws and orinances!
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The Constitution must form the legal basis for our new, somewhat more "Swiss-like
Europe", in which we citizens throughout Europe have the final word on all of its essential issues
- by means of Constitutional initiatives!
3. A Platform online for All of
Us
On the platform www.our-new-europe.eu, we citizens
in all European countries - including Russia and Ukraine - can finally express our own opinion - freely, and without any fear of censorship:
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The blog "Our
New Europe" gives us citizens across Europe for the first time the opportunity to form and to express our own opinions, especially on all the
existential global crises that directly threaten us (refugees, climate change, pandemics, wars..)!
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We, millions of us, will sign the online Petition for our new Europe,
forcing our politicians to immediately create peace without weapons and, together with us, to build our Common European House, open to all European countries - our Global
Peace Project!
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E-referenda, e-initiatives and e-elections enable us to decide ourselves on all important European issues,
to emancipate ourselves and thereby to assume power and
responsibility for Europe ourselves!
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