Questions: Do you consider that 0.2% of the total population of each Member State is an appropriate threshold? If not, do you have other proposals in this regard in order to achieve the aim of ensuring that a citizens' initiative is genuinely representative of a Union interest?
Do you consider that 0.2% of the total population of each Member State is an appropriate threshold?
If not, do you have other proposals in this regard in order to achieve the aim of ensuring that a citizens' initiative is genuinely representative of a Union interest?
The Commission notes that the current number of EU citizens is just below 500 million, and that accordingly, a 0.2% threshold would be the proportional number per Member State.
I basically would not have a huge problem with a requirement of 1/3rd of the Member States and 0.2% of the population per Member State, since at that level it would be practically difficult for a single Member State to dominate the list of signatories.
Alternatively, though, we can see that the largest current Member State, Germany, has about 1/6th of the population. So I could also see a requirement of 0.1% per Member State coupled to a requirement that no single Member State provides more than, say, 1/5th (20%) of the signatories required for the threshold.
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.
Are sigs collected by different organisations additive? Do all of the organisations pro/anti have to be campaigning on an identical and detailed carbon tax proposal?
How are opposing ECIs on the same issues reconciled? Does one automatically cancel out another? E.g. If ECIs in all fishing nations propose mandatory minimum fishing quotas, and all non fishing members oppose minimum fish quotas? Or Catholic countries support ECI's against abortion and protestant/secular countries oppose? notes from no w here
