PERSPECTIVE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MAKE CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVE­MENT BOTTOM-UP How to Reinforce Participative Democracy at the EU Level Citizens should be granted a real agenda-setting power, most notably for the European Council’s strategic agenda and by giving the ECI a direct effect. EU participative democracy needs to be simplified by better targeting consultation instruments, establishing unique procedural file num­bers, and turning the»Have your say« web­s­ite into one­stop resource grant­ing access to all instruments of participative democracy. Julian Plottka July 2020 EU legislation has to become more transparent by establis­hing an integrated system of national transparency registers covering all negotiators in the Council system.