Our surprise guest is Bruno Kaufmann, Ambassador of the European Citizens' Initiative, a unique tool ideally allowing EU citizens to propose new EU laws. He gives the reasons why the ECI is of tremendous importance and why one day, if it succeeds, it may be seen as one of the most amazing democratic achievements since the breakthrough of universal and equal suffrage in the 20th century.

Bruno Kaufmann is a Swedish political scientist and a journalist who has authored publications in more than 40 languages on modern direct and representative democracy. He is the Global Democracy Correspondent at SWI swissinfo.ch, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Company and covers Northern European Affairs for the Swiss public service radio and TV. Bruno is co-founder and board member of democracy support organisations like the Initiative and Referendum Institute, Democracy International and the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. He is Director of International Cooperation at the Swiss Democracy Foundation.