6×5 Ayes for Silesia!
When diagnoses and solutions become the vision!
Here are our 30 proposals for Silesia!
SILESIA IN EUROPE
AYE! for Silesia in federalising, democratic European Union
AYE! for adding Polish EU membership to the constitution
AYE! for Common Foreign and Security Policy
AYE! for strong regions in the European Union
AYE! for a big, united, cross-border Silesia euroregion
STRONG LOCAL GOVERMENTS, DECENTRALISATION, DEGLOMERATION
AYE! for growing independence of the local governments in the sectors of regional development, innovation, education, culture, and allocation of European Union funds
AYE! for local governments’ representation in the Parliament
AYE! for tax decentralisation
AYE! for enlargened financial independence of the local governments
AYE! for bigger financial support for small cities and villages
RULE OF LAW AND MINORITY RIGHTS
AYE! for increasing the Senate’s competences in terms of the judiciary and foreign policy
AYE! for getting rid of the parliamentary immunity
AYE! for lowering the electoral treshold in the elections to the Sejm, the voivodeships, powiats (counties) and gminas (municipalities)’ parliaments and councils, whilst also introducing the Single Transferable Vote system
AYE! for integrating voivodeship parliaments and powiats’ councils in the process of appointing judges and prosecutors
AYE! for strengthening the role of the Ombudsman and introducing absolutely binding referendum results
INNOVATIVE SILESIA
AYE! for a thorough reform and decentralisation of the education system, with special focus on individual approach to teaching and the student-teacher relation based on the Finnish system
AYE! for higher education reform with an introduction of private capital to universities
AYE! for reinforcing and supporting Silesian universities, technology transfer centres and start-ups
AYE! for making the job market more elastic, and at the same time increasing the workers’ mobility, based on the Danish flexicurity model
AYE! for the system of academic and professional exchange between Silesian universities or enterprises and the leading foreign establishments
E-SILESIA – E-REGION
AYE! for a e-civil society in the e-region, which should be based on the Estonian e-state model
AYE! for a computer per student, and teaching informatics from pre-school all the way to high school, with a compulsory informatics matura exam
AYE! for e-learning, remote classes 2 days per week, e-exams, and e-consultations with teachers
AYE! for a possibility of handling all official matters in an e-office – from changing your ID card, to a civil marriage, and even e-voting in elections and referendums
AYE! for free antivirus software for all citizens, strengthening and expanding the cyberpolice and stricter cyber-safety regulations
MULTICULTURAL SILESIA
AYE! for recognising Silesians as an ethnic minority, and the ślōnskŏ gŏdka alongside wymysiöeryś as regional languages
AYE! for linguistic rights of the German minority and development of the bilingual Polish-German education
AYE! for a smart and open migration policy alongside an integrative multiculturalism model
AYE! for Silesian studies as a part of Slavic or Germanic philologies on Silesian universities
AYE! for regional education in schools