Legalise assisted suicide across the EU.

Patients' needs should be the centrepiece in digital healthcare. While so much is becoming digitalised, when it comes to healthcare, digital access is falling behind. The pandemic has catapulted digital healthcare into society, however young patients with a chronic disease need to see digitalisation implemented to facilitate and improve access to care.

The future of healthcare in Europe should include video consultations with the best doctors across country borders, digital health records and EU-wide electronic prescriptions, to make travel and quality of life better. 

We need a European registry for illnesses, so we know where diseases appear, who is affected, and what treatments are most effective. Many patients do not know the survival rate of certain illnesses or if certain treatments come with risks that could threaten their health in other ways.

In this way, young people can feel confident to work and travel across borders with the knowledge that their healthcare remains accessible.

It is also vital that digital care does not replace in-person care and does not leave behind those who require a physical appointment.

We need an online platform where citizens will be able to vote for common European democratic changes. Within this platform, there will also be sub-platforms where people can vote for national changes within their own country. This platform should avoid advertising to potect people.

Painting all rooftops white will make them reflect the heat coming from the sun, instead of absorbing it like dark coloured surfaces. This can translate to a decrease in temperature in European cities during the summer months. Therefore, the EU should make white roofs an obligation for new construction projects and renovation plans.

A significant number of scientific and social research studies stress the importance of sex education at secondary school level. Young teenagers are in need of practical and factual information.

In some communities, issues linked to sexuality are taboo and people don't discuss them in homes, schools and centres. Now, as a result, teenagers are in danger of sexually transmitted infections, mental illness, and chronic health problems as well as of LGBTQ discrimination and school bullying.

One of the challenges here is a lack of teachers who possess the necessary knowledge and training to distribute appropriate and correct information about sex and reproductive health. Additional barriers include opposition from cultural and religious leaders, as well as the absence of sex and reproductive health education generally, both at a local and EU level.

Let's unify and provide teachers with the right information, backed by scientists and health specialists, as a starting point.

Eco-labels make it easier for customers to identify which items are better for the environment - particularly when they specify if the product is biodegradable, recyclable or made from recycled materials. That is why it is important that the European Union dedicates big efforts to the promotion of these tags.

Additionally, EU institutions should work on the creation of an environmental impact index: a mandatory label that will inform customers about what harm a specific item might have done to the planet. Apart from this information, it can be interesting to add an index such as "eco-cost" that quantifies the impact of each product.

All of this data, reflected in the mentioned eco-labels or impact indexes, will encourage citizens to make more informed choices that can also benefit our planet.

Current practices in European agriculture are harmful to our planet and must be revised in order to help the green transition. We need to focus on:

1. Importing soybean from European countries like Spain, not Latin America.
2. Building teams of policymakers that are determined to make important changes in agriculture for the sake of the environment, not profit.
3. Encouraging the transition to permaculture (sustainable agricultural practices) via subsidies.
4. Promoting carbon capture among farmers.

The EU should be transparent about major contracts that it concludes, such as vaccine purchase contracts. There should also be prior consultation with citizens about such agreements.

Fiscal integration is the last step towards a stronger united Europe. We need to put an end to the disparities between each Member State and reduce tax evasion within the Union with a single tax.

Investing in fuels made from waste will help the EU become less dependent on external countries (like Russia) for energy. Superethanol E85 is of particular interest: it is made from waste derived from sugar beet processing and is much less polluting than traditional petrol.

We should make use of our rooftops and windows by installing solar panels and solar roofs on them. This would increase our renewable energy output exponentially.

As long as there are several institutions responsible for certain procedures, we will be faced with administrative difficulties. For example, the reimbursement of medical expenses as well as the admittance of residence permits is in some countries administered by several different institutions. Such administrative procedures should be simplified and centralised.

As the creation of a digital version of the Euro has been suggested, there are many risks lurking if we do not treat it with the seriousness it deserves. One of the main concerns deriving from the digital Euro concept is that there might be a total loss of consumer's privacy and the risk of misuse of their data. Moreover, the digital euro might be misused in order to monitor citizens and their purchases. 

In order to prevent the above, it is necessary for the EU either to make the digital Euro currency open source or to stop evaluating the suggestion and eventually introducing the Euro. Above all, we should not make the digital Euro a tool in the hands of authoritarian governments, with the help of which they will control populations, and in order to achieve this, the EU needs to make the currency's source code public and follow the best IT security techniques.  

We need to make it easier for individuals and groups to deal with problems of public concern. If people organise and work to improve their communities, we should support them. Reducing unnecessary administrative restrictions on civic participation can be a good starting point.

Shared border control is extremely difficult. It is thus not surprising that the EU's joint border agency, Frontex, has significant room for improvement. Several ideas are proposed for improving its approach to border management:

• An observer from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) should be present in all Frontex activities, to ensure that migrants' rights are protected.
• Furthermore, FRA should conduct assessments of Frontex's humanitarian response quality, to be included in key subject reports.
• Frontex should be subject to the same transparency requirements as other EU agencies.
• The European Parliament and European Council should be given greater decision-making roles in Frontex's operations.

Given the high levels of congestion on European roads, it is time to take on air space to move around the city. Some countries, such as Portugal, have already implemented an urban air mobility (UAM) system. This is a revolutionary system that provides urban point-to-point connections for passengers, freight and derive providers using Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles.

Putting this into practice across the EU will not only benefit the cities themselves, but also stakeholders involved in urban mobility, and will generate new job opportunities. This has the potential to bridge the gap between the scientific community, industries and the general public.

Any business that works with vegetables must be compelled to compost them or their scraps. This can be made possible with different systems:

• Community composting.
• Selective collection of organic waste.
• Home composting.

It is important to call on people's individual responsibility towards the environment, but ideally this would be mandatory across the whole continent.

After the COVID-19 crisis, a much-needed opportunity for electronic elections and online voting has arisen. EU partner countries, and especially the Eastern Partnership countries, should use artificial intelligence and digital technology in the election process as a means of strengthening democracy in their countries. 

Studying abroad is popular among young people. But it often happens that, for those studying abroad, engaging with policies, governments and the EU is difficult because of, for example, the language barrier. Youth participation in an EU country other than one's home country should be made more accessible, starting with a common language which would allow for better participation.

Any European country applying to become a full member of the European Union needs to respect the principles of liberty, democracy and rule of law, as well as protect and preserve human rights and fundamental freedoms. Negotiations with partnership countries who do not these European values should be frozen until they show genuine and measurable commitment to respect and adhere to our norms and principles.

Moreover, in trade agreements with third countries, the EU should prioritise respect for human rights in those countries as a minimum requirement.

Remote working can be a good way of reducing our emissions, while at the same time also encouraging life in smaller neighbourhoods and cities. The European Union needs to promote and subsidise it more actively.

A good alternative to this can also be the implementation the four day work week and combining it with remote working.

Climate and biodiversity protection should come before other topics such as economy or even social issues, given the impact it will have on our future. A good way to ensure this is by externally assessing the private and public sectors on their impact on the environment. As a result, an 'eco-score' will be assigned to products and services across the EU. This changes will make the transition to an environment based economy much easier.

A more liberal drug policy can help resolve drug-related problems. When substances are allowed, citizens are more likely to use them responsibly. Moreover, as the substances would be sold in legal shops rather than through illegal underground networks, it would be easier to restrict minors' access to drugs. 

Migrants have for some time been seen as a threat by Europeans. This is wrong: instead, they offer possibilities. Europe's population is not getting any younger, and industries' need for extra manpower will only rise. Equally, rural areas suffering underpopulation can be rejuvenated. Young migrants should be welcomed, educated, and prepared to fill the holes in Europe's workforce, with more migrants being allocated to countries that have relatively older populations and thus greater need.

This should be done in a way that affirms the dignity of migrants coming to Europe. Flourishing for the EU and flourishing for migrants do not need to be held in opposition. Indeed, the sooner this is embraced, the better: a coherent model for integrating migrants into the economy needs to be found as soon as possible to allow the EU to adequately respond to possible climate-caused migrations.

The EU needs a more direct democracy. Its citizens should be allowed to influence those policies and laws that directly affect their lives, for example, by using referendums to vote on said legislations. This could be improved by focusing on the principle of subsidiarity which means that decisions should be made as close to citizens as possible and at the lowest possible political level.

Artificial Intelligence should be developed further to prevent crimes and to strengthen society's trust in one another.

The Dublin arrangement is central to EU migration policy. It has, however, several deficiencies:

• Asylum seekers should, as much as possible, be given a choice of the country to which they are assigned.
• If asylum seekers' applications for protection have not been resolved in the time limit for processing their case, they should not be removed from the EU: they should be protected until their status is defined.
• Distribution of asylum holders across the EU should be determined by a quota based on numerous criteria (including GDP and unemployment rate). This should include a method for ensuring Member States' compliance, allowing greater harmonisation.
• Asylum applications should be made more accessible in countries of origin and transit countries.

It is important that the EU promotes and facilitates better waste management practices among citizens. These can include limitations when it comes to throwing away something that can be fixed; donation programmes; and more recycling options for technological devices such as mobile phones.

Politicians should be held accountable to their citizens. That is why EU citizens should have the right to directly shorten the term or even remove those politicians who are not competent in their role and replace them with better alternatives.

Germany has criminalised Nazist movements and the promotion of Nazi symbols. To expand from this practice, there should be similar European-wide rules that address different types of hatred, such as antisemitism and Islamophobia.