Earlier today, #EPlenary adopted the report by @vinczelorant taking stock of the latest on European Citizens’ Initiatives #ECIs.
MEPs regret that the overall number of valid ECIs and their impact remains very low, and propose ways to enhance them, including:
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626062228721670
@vinczelorant ➡multilingual EU and national awareness campaigns
➡changes to school programmes
➡clear procedures and explanations on Commission inadmissibility decisions, allowing for amended re-submissions
➡reversing the phasing out of individual, tailored online collection systems
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626258471837699
@vinczelorant ➡reducing hurdles for citizens and financially supporting organisations when their ECIs reach the 1 million threshold
➡a balanced and transparent composition of the ECI Expert Group, which should include permanent civil society experts
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626456006787072
@vinczelorant Parliament also commits to voting on a resolution for every valid ECI and every Commission communication, and to look into expanding and improving the instrument, possibly through Treaty revision.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626516408926208
@vinczelorant This report reflects citizens’ expectations for democratic participation, as expressed in proposals 36 and 37 of Conference on the Future of Europe: https://conference-delegation.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/267078/Report_EN.pdf
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626619479764992
@vinczelorant ➡EU countries lowering the minimum age to support an ECI
➡integrating eID for signature collections
➡tackling obstacles like the need for too much supporter data, or the lack of procedural transparency in certain countries
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPInstitutional/status/1668626375312560133