http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210316-154113-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/cofoe-bureaucracy/ The Conference on the Future of Europe – Finally, an opportunity for more top-down bureaucracy? Thierse, Stefan eng 2021-03-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Conference on the Future of Europe European Union Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On Wednesday, 10 March, the Presidents of the European Institutions signed the Joint Declaration on the Future of Europe. It establishes a Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), which is advertised as a "citizens-focused, bottom-up exercise”. However, from the start, the Conference has been everything but that.