The Green Deal (GD) and the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) are both central to the EU's environmental, economic and social sustainability, even as many questions persist regarding their processes and outcomes. This article considers both processes as essential catalysts for, and tools of, a more polycentric Europe. It specifically wants to harness the problem-definition and problem-solving abilities of such a polycentric system through greater participation, solidarity and trust. By ensuring citizen empowerment through citizen assemblies such as the CoFoE, the success and legitimacy of the GD, as a central part of the EU's sustainability agenda, could be strongly amplified. This article highlights several procedural and substantive overlaps and synergies that present low-cost, high-gain opportunities to make these processes mutually reinforcing. More generally, the CoFoE, and possible future iterations, should be central to the EU's democratic integration and its longevity.

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欧洲绿色协议：多中心欧洲的未来？

绿色协议 (GD) 和欧洲未来会议 (CoFoE) 都是欧盟环境、经济和社会可持续性的核心，尽管关于其进程和结果的许多问题仍然存在。本文将这两个过程视为一个更加多中心的欧洲的重要催化剂和工具。它特别希望通过更多的参与、团结和信任来利用这种多中心系统的问题定义和解决问题的能力。通过通过 CoFoE 等公民大会确保公民赋权，作为欧盟可持续发展议程核心部分的 GD 的成功和合法性可以大大增强。本文重点介绍了几个程序性和实质性的重叠和协同作用，它们呈现出低成本、使这些过程相辅相成的高收益机会。更一般地说，CoFoE 以及未来可能的迭代应该是欧盟民主一体化及其长寿的核心。