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Opinions on Deliberative Polling®

"An innovative method for bridging the chasm between the electors and the elected"

Walter Shapiro - Time Magazine

"Deliberative Polling® is the most promising innovation in democratic practice of which I am aware."

Robert A. Dahl - Yale University

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Covering Tomorrow’s Europe
This sub-section will provide press releases, photos and press packs about Tomorrow’s Europe, frequently updated throughout the process.

Journalists will have the opportunity to meet members of the microcosm, to observe the deliberation, and to receive its detailed results.

For further information:

Daniela Vincenti Mitchener, Communications Officer
E-mail : dvincenti-mitchener@tomorrowseurope.eu
Tel. dir. : + 32 2 227 1156
GSM : +32 4 97 41 20 95

PRESS RELEASE (22 October) : EU citizens accept need for pension form, resist enlargement

FINAL RESULTS : First EU-wide Deliberative Poll® reveals citizens’ considered preferences

Brussels, Thursday 18 October 2007— “Tomorrow’s Europe”, the first-ever EU-wide Deliberative Poll® gathered a scientific random sample of 362 citizens from all 27 EU countries to Brussels, where they spent a weekend deliberating about key social and foreign policy issues affecting the future of the EU and its member states. The deliberations, in 22 languages, took place in the European Parliament building. No event quite like this—with a scientifically drawn sample from all 27 member states deliberating at this length and in their own languages—has ever previously occurred.
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