WE Manifesto

WP3 Manifesto

This Manifesto calls for a reimagining of democracy in the EU, centered on youth engagement, equity, and inclusion. Emerging from a Brussels event in February 2025, it outlines urgent demands to reconnect young people with political life. It advocates for systemic change, including secure access to education, housing, and healthcare; reform of formal education to foster active citizenship; lowering the voting age to 16 with adequate civic education; and recognition of art and culture as vital tools for political expression. The Manifesto emphasizes the need for permanent, inclusive democratic mechanisms, intersectional policymaking, and a firm stance against misinformation and hate. Ultimately, it envisions a Europe where democracy and participation are lived experiences—not tokenistic gestures.

WP4 Manifesto

At Europe's edge in Lampedusa, a place of arrival, refusal, grief, and care, we gathered to ask: what does solidarity mean today? This manifesto emerges from those reflections. It brings together the voices of islanders, young people, migrants, and allies who know the daily contradictions of Europe firsthand. We call for solidarity as justice, not charity. Rooted in shared responsibility, human rights, and dignity for all, this is our vision for an open, democratic, and truly united Europe.

WP5 Manifesto

Ways of Europe is committed to building a fairer, more equitable, democratic, and free Europe—starting from its symbolic and physical margins. Meeting in Calais and Dunkerque, places shaped by both industrial transition and human movement, we affirm a simple truth: there is no just transition without migration justice. The just transition must be a whole-society project, and that includes migrants — in policy, media, education, economy, and culture. Climate change, inequality, and human mobility are interconnected realities. This manifesto arises from youth across Europe, imagining a continent where ecological transformation and human dignity advance together. Youth Voices for a Europe that Includes, Integrates, and Innovates.

WP6 Manifesto

Ways of Europe is committed to building a Europe rooted in dignity, justice, and democratic freedom. In Budapest, a city marked by historical struggles for democracy and by today’s social tensions, we gathered young people, activists, migrants, and local actors to rethink what Europe must stand for now. Budapest reveals the vulnerabilities and the potential of the European project. Here, we reflected on the Rule of Law, democratic participation, peace, migration, and solidarity, not as separate issues, but as intertwined foundations of our shared future. This manifesto arises from their experiences, concerns, and aspirations. At a time when democratic backsliding, polarization, exclusion, and insecurity threaten our shared future, we reaffirm a simple truth: