THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION REPORT. Europe in a period of transition

THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 40 reasons mentioned above, and due to poor participation (barely 2 or 8% depending on how it is calculated), as it is limited and not on an equal footing with the institu- tions, and its central role in European construction has not been recognised. Many improvements can be made which are going to increase the weight of civil society, in other words, that the representatives of civil society are also on the Exec- utive Council, they can preside over some of the themed Commissions, they are given the necessary means to connect up with European civil societies and each of the Member States, that the debates are improved, moving beyond the system of over 200 monologues which is what happened in the first Plenary; that the Multilingual Digital Platform is relocated as an auxiliary element and not the central element of participation and that it is used as an element that facilitates associative participation and not individual participation. We have also mentioned that the Conference on the Future of Europe is not starting out as expected and, above all, it is not meeting the expectations which were raised, as no citizens were present at the first Plenary, with hardly any civil society and poor participation from young people as well. In the text, we have proposed a set of measures to be able to meet the purpose of the Conference on the Future of Europe.