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Re: 2 - Minimum number of signatures (4.00 / 2)

0.2% of the population in at least 9 States still sounds like a lot. I'd be ore inclined to have a combined requirement such as

at least 1,000 people (or a proportional threshold) from at least 2/3s of EU countries
at least 0.2% from at least 5 countries
no country representing more than 25-30% [use number equal to double Germany's proportion of the population of the EU]

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 09:38:57 AM EST
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Re: 2 - Minimum number of signatures (none / 0)

at least 9 States still sounds like a lot

Out of 27? I don't think so. 5 states, that could be blocks like Baltics + Poland + Romania, or BeNeLux + FrancoGerman alliance, or an Ireland + UK + Netherlands + Denmark + Poland Atlanticist axis.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 01:43:53 PM EST
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