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EPBD revision — citizen synthesis

6-week campaign closed yesterday · 5 channels · 27 Member States · weighted by reach and segment representativeness
Total responses
428 314
+2 087 last 24h
Estimated reach
20.4M
target met (102%)
Channels
5 / 5
all reporting
Low-digital-access representation
21%
vs 4% in 2022 consultation

Channel breakdown

Where the input came from — and how we weighted it
ChannelResponsesReachWeighting (segment-corrected)
Paper letter (post)186 4422.1M26%
TikTok / Reels109 83311.4M18%
LinkedIn long-form62 0146.8M22%
Expert email3 21712k20%
European Citizens' Panel16016014%
⚠ Weighting note: LinkedIn responses are downweighted against raw reach so professionals do not crowd out tenant voices. Methodology: v2.1 spec.

Geographic coverage (response density per capita)

HU 3.8%
PL 3.2%
DE 1.9%
FR 1.7%
IT 2.1%
RO 3.5%
ES 1.4%
PT 2.0%
NL 1.1%
BE 1.6%
CZ 2.4%
SK 2.7%

Top themes

What citizens said, across channels

1 · Heating cost is the lived experience of energy policy

surfaced by: paper · LinkedIn · TikTok · expert · citizens' panel
"I want to pay less for heating."— Mária K., 72, HU, paper letter (translated)
"Heat-pump subsidies don't reach renters."— Sara R., energy auditor, IT, LinkedIn

2 · Distrust of local intermediaries is uneven

paper letters: 64% say "I do not trust the mayor" on heating decisions
"My mayor never came to the village hall. Why would he know?"— anonymous, paper letter, RO

3 · The performance gap is a professional consensus

expert track + LinkedIn poll: 44% rank it as the top blocker
"Wall insulation modelling underestimates resident ventilation in southern condominiums by 30–40%."— Sara R., LinkedIn

4 · Teen segment frames it as intergenerational fairness

TikTok comments & tap-poll
"Boomers got cheap energy. Why are we the ones being asked to pay for the renovations?"— @clean_fr, 19, FR

What the Context Translator recommends as next step

For the EPBD Article 9 working draft
  • Foreground the heating-cost framing in the public communication of the revised EPBD — it is the only theme that surfaces across every channel and across all 27 Member States.
  • Reinforce tenant-protection provisions — the gap between tenants (paper, TikTok) and homeowners/professionals (LinkedIn, expert) is the largest dissensus in the dataset.
  • Commission a focused workstream on the performance gap — strong professional consensus, weak presence in the impact assessment.
  • Open a second, narrower citizen round on local-authority trust, where the paper-letter data is strikingly different from urban LinkedIn data.
All claims are traceable to the underlying responses. Citizens' identities are anonymised; partners are credited. Raw dataset under EU Open Data Portal terms.
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