Those EU citizens randomly-selected to participate in the Conference on the Future of Europe have so far shown an enormous appetite for structural EU reforms - including proposals for treaty change.
But this controversial democratic experiment still risks backfiring if it does not deliver results.
Two groups of 200 randomly-chosen citizens have already adopted nearly 100 specific recommendations on issues regarding Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberGet EU news that matters
Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.
Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.