Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-24-Speech-3-122"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-03-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the European Citizens’ Initiative based on Article 11(4) of the Treaty on European Union (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100324.13.3-122"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-03-24-Speech-3-1232
lpv:speaker	lp:Olga Sehnalová2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Česká strana sociálně demokratická (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2012-03-13)3 substitute; CULT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the last few years, the European Union has experienced a crisis of confidence on the part of its citizens. One of the signs of this is the very low turnout for elections to the European Parliament, arising from the widely-held feeling that citizens cannot influence events in the EU through their vote in any way whatsoever. I therefore warmly welcome the possibility of citizens’ initiatives which the Treaty of Lisbon opens up for EU citizens, and in this context, also the public consultation with the Commission and the Green Paper on how to bring the citizens’ initiative to life in concrete terms. I agree in principle with most of the proposals in the Green Paper. However, if we hold out a helping hand, we should not at the same time be afraid that EU citizens will grasp it. Therefore, if we care about maximising the dialogue with citizens, I consider some of these limiting measures to be too strict. These mainly concern the minimum number of Member States that the citizens signing an initiative must come from, and the definition of a so-called substantial number of states. The proposal for one out of three states, in other words, nine at present, is, in my opinion, discouraging and unrealistic for prospective initiatives in practical terms. A reduction in this number to 20% would, I believe, be a step in the right direction for the general public of the EU, who will, for example, also take note of the greater emphasis being placed on the role of the macro-regions in creating EU policy. And why not?"@en1
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