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Launched in 2015, Politix EU is a one-stop shop platform that aims to make citizens aware of EU policies shaping their everyday lives - in plain and simple language. The main goal of the project is to close the feedback loop between politicians and citizens, by showing citizens what an abstract legislative proposal could mean for their lives and giving them the chance to share their opinion on a given proposal with policy-makers and the community around them. The target public in general are all Europeans, with a particular focus on younger people.

Legal form
Non-profit organization
Objectives
  • inform citizens about EU legislative proposals discussed by the European Parliament;
  • increase transparency at the EU level;
  • create a new European awareness and stimulate interest in EU politics;
  • encourage active citizenship, by giving the users the opportunity to vote on the presented EU bills;
  • provide EU politicians with evidence of the citizens’ sentiment about a specific issue and create a space for constructive participatory dialogue.
Main Activities
  • Creation of short, comprehensive summaries of EU legislative proposals, supplemented by documents and news articles to get a much deeper insight of a given issue, as well as positions of various interest groups;
  • Engagement and empowerment of citizens across the EU, by involving them in the public debate;
  • Participation in public discussions on e-participation, digital democracy, transparency.
Strengths
  • Easy access to complex information and further data, including a database of EU lobby groups and position papers.
  • A simple tool for encouraging active citizen participation in the EU policy-making process, through a clear voting procedure: thumbs up and thumbs down.
Finance and Main Partners

The project received a grant by Advocate Europe, the European idea challenge by MitOst in cooperation with Liquid Democracy, funded by Stiftung Mercator.

We partner with the European Student Think Tank, a student-led international platform for sharing ideas and thoughts about the European Union, and with the Student Forum Maastricht, which is an annual student-led international academic conference bringing together students and professionals to discuss Europe-related topics.