We don't have anything like this in Wales, although it is generally easier for citizens and community groups to engage with policy making, but that is an entirely different process.
I wonder if such an initiative would be a way of providing young people especially with a stronger voice? Ad astra per aspera
If people generally were engaged with the issues enough to sign petitions with some level of feeling empowered and informed I could see the initiative process working. Now we just need to figure out how to manipulate the willingness to get up and vote for reality tv contestants and convert it to a willingness to vote about issues that actually are important... Ad astra per aspera
I think Sven may be your man... En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
What specific requirements should be imposed upon the organisers of an initiative in order to ensure transparency and democratic accountability? Do you agree that organisers should be required to provide information on the support and funding that they have received for an initiative?
However, it is entirely possible (I'd even say highly likely) that popular initiatives would ask the Commission to legislate on things it's not allowed to by the Treaties. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Article 11 paragraph 4 Treaty on European Union:
Not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the European Commission, within the framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Treaties. The procedures and conditions required for such a citizens' initiative shall be determined in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 24 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
The procedures and conditions required for such a citizens' initiative shall be determined in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 24 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Article 24 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union:
The European Parliament and the Council, acting by means of regulations in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall adopt the provisions for the procedures and conditions required for a citizens' initiative within the meaning of Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union, including the minimum number of Member States from which such citizens must come.
I wouldn't be so sure that there wouldn't be others. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
