The tellbarroso.eu Project 

The Centre for European Studies’ tellbarroso.eu survey was an innovative webbased platform which invited European citizens to participate in the political decision-formation process.

This pioneer initiative was personally endorsed by José Manuel Durão Barroso. It was the latest in a line of initiatives by the Centre for European Studies (CES), the official think thank of the European People’s Party, aimed at bringing policy-making to the citizens by stimulating debate from the ground-up, proposing new ideas and providing a base for centre right political research.

TellBarroso.eu sought to engage European citizens with the question: “What areas affecting your daily life should the EU focus its energies on?”

Participants named and discussed issues which really matter to them. Subsequently, participants were given the opportunity to see what issues other participants had specified thus enabling them to evaluate these issues according to their own priorities. Lastly, the survey allowed the participants to add further issues triggered in their minds by the exercise.

The data is particularly valuable as it highlighted both individuals’ queries and group queries in quantifiable cross-sections of society.

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