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Rural Europe: definitions, issues and policies - European infopack (2nd Ed. - February 2008)
European Citizens’ Panel - What Roles for Rural Areas in Tomorrow’s Europe?
Edited by Foundation for Future Generations
Author : AEIDL
Price: Free of charge (available)
The European Citizens’ Panel is a pilot initiative that encourages citizens from ten regions of Europe to have a voice in the policies that affect rural areas.
The factsheets presented here aim to provide the citizens’ panellists with European level information on various themes.
The citizens’ panel method has been used before. It involves lay citizens selected in a random manner in a debate on specific issues affecting their daily life. Citizens have the opportunity to access documentation on the issues adressed. They present their report and recommendations to decision-makers.
This information pack complements the material already made available to them at the regional panels, and:
• provides an overview of the European rural world taking into account its broad diversity,
• summarises the issues raised by current developments in the rural world,
• provides basic information on the policies implemented in rural areas,
• and proposes a series of questions that could be addressed by the citizens.
The European Infopack has been translated in 6 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian and Slovakian), which are the working languages of the initiative. The idea was to disseminate it to a larger audience in order to contribute to a wider European debate on rural issues. The Infopack, together with the large bibliography used to compile it, can be downloaded from the site of the European Citizen’s panel: www.citizenspanel.eu.
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