The Lisbon Treaty introduces a new form of public participation in European Union policy shaping, the European citizens’ initiative, which enables one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States to call directly on the European Commission to bring forward an initiative of interest to them in an area of EU competence. Before citizens can start exercising this new right, a few ground rules and procedures have to be laid down in an EU regulation.
Given the importance of this new tool for citizens, civil society and stakeholders across the EU, the Commission has opened a broad public consultation in order to seek the views of all interested parties on how the citizens' initiative should work in practice.Here is the email address, ECI-Consultation-citizen@ec.europa.eu which says nothing at all about not accepting emails of an abusive or sweary nature *hint*. I shall compose mine in the morning, though I
The Green Paper, which launches this consultation, gives an overview of the legal, administrative and practical issues that will need to be addressed by the Regulation and asks a number of questions to which interested parties are invited to respond by 31st January 2010.
They wouldn't let us have a referendum, and now they want to know what we think - Soviet EUnion Government is upon us.
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I'm going to write one too :) Mine won't be nice either. Do you think if we could get a million people to ask for a referendum, we would get one?
No, neither do I.
Bolt, stable door and horse spring to mind, Daniel!
I feel an e-mail coming on - I might just go and have a couple of pints with the lads first!
They treat us as imbeciles - and we are.
"one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States" and which particular individuals will these be ?
And what constitutes 'a significant number of member states'? The implication is clear that even if the UK alone mustered 1m signatures it would not be acceptable on their terms.
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