Make.org is glad to cooperate with the European Commission and OpenSourcePolitics on detecting citizens’ priorities for the new long-term EU budget 2028-2034 through Citizen Engagement Platform. Our analyst team actively contributes with the analysis of the online citizens' inputs. We help to connect the online discussion with the offline panels, where the citizens can submit, discuss and endorse their own opinions and proposals.

Among the topics that citizens put forward in the discussions on the online platform are Economy and cost of living, questions regarding Education and Culture, for example relating to job integration, Climate and Environment, or Security and Democracy.

The European budget is one of the driving forces being EU-wide action. In 2025, the European Commission must present a proposal for a new long-term EU budget for the 2028-2034 programming period. Both the European Parliament and Member States, reunited in the Council, have to find a consensus on the budgetary decision.

The Commission wants to involve citizens to help define the priorities of the Union’s future budget. One part of such engagement is the online Citizens’ Engagement Platform that allows consulting the wider public. The Platform is implemented and moderated by OpenSourcePolitics. From February to May 2025, citizens may create, comment and vote on contributions on the Platform.

So far, citizens have made 262 contributions. These contributions received 512 endorsements between February and May 2025.

The online platform allows a fruitful interaction with the offline panel propositions. The offline panel, which was reunited on the weekend of 16-18 May, produced their own set of propositions with regard to the budget discussion.

After a presentation of the Platform’s interim results to the offline participants, delivered by Aurélien Caritey on 25 April, we were glad to once again be present at the European Commission to display the final results of the online consultation at the closing session of the offline Citizens’ Panel in Brussels. We are delighted to support this engaging approach by analysing the content that was collected online. Feeding into the Citizen Panels, we are happy to strengthen the links between mini publics (panel) and maxi publics (online platform).

Ultimately, both inputs from the panel and platform will be taken into consideration by the European Commission and the Directorate-General for Budget. The first draft long-term budget proposition shall be published later in July 2025 and subsequently discussed by all the institutions, mainly the European Parliament and the Council, to find a consensus on the final EU budget’s proposal.