Marietta Le, Budapest: "This is where Budapest's new meeting centre must be built."
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Oliver Pilz, Budapest: "It’s the cities that offer solutions to global challenges."
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"Democracy is not just about making common decisions. It’s about acting together, which means everyone should be able to participate," says David Payot from Lausanne.
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“The government did not like the referenda that were launched," says Niescho Dubbelboerbei about the facultative referendums carried out for only a short time at national level in the Netherlands.
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“Active and interested citizens who the administration used to consider as disruptive are now welcome,” says Johanna Seppälä, Helsinki.
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![The four-metre-long painting "Sonntag der Bergbauern" [Sunday of the Mountain Farmers, 1923-24/26] had to be removed by a crane from the German Chancellery in Berlin for the exhibition in Bern.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/12/01_Pressebild_KirchnerxKirchner.jpg?crop=1165px,0px,1670px,1670px&w=480&ver=8f77363a)
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