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The EU Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) organised a first European Citizens’ Summit with 250 participants in June 2013. For the second edition, following the 2014 European Parliament elections, the CSCG will, through its large network of civil society from across the EU, create a space of dialogue and discussion between European citizens in order to reinforce the values and objectives of a more accountable, citizen-oriented, human rights and values based European Union. It will bring together leading civil society thinkers and citizens from across the EU, to exchange views on how to shape a Europe that moves from a logic of markets and profit to a system that put people and the planet back into the centre of politics. It will address the growth obsession of the political mainstream, that is increasingly questioned by the people in Europe, and critically assess the “EU’s 10 year growth strategy” Europe2020, that proved to contribute to the marketization of common goods such as health, education and culture. It will act as a shadow discursive space to the Commissioner hearings, and open a space for dialogue between citizens and the newly elected parliamentarians.