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"The sole purpose of this report is to amend the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament to accommodate the role forced on Parliament in the so-called ‘citizens’ initiative’. While we agree with holding hearings to debate the subjects tackled by this set-up created by the Treaty of Lisbon, the contradictions and limitations of this particular initiative should be remembered. Specifically, we should remember the demagogical way this was promoted: the attempt to whitewash the impoverishment of democracy, and to make us forget that Europe’s leaders prevented the peoples from having their say on the Treaty of Lisbon. This procedure is now being repeated with the so-called fiscal pact. We should remember that 1 million signatures from a significant number of Member States are required simply to ‘invite’ the European Commission to table a suitable proposal concerning issues on which these citizens think there is a need for an EU legal act to apply the Treaties. In other words, after all the work of collecting signatures and fulfilling the requirements that the draft regulation lays down, there is no guarantee that the citizens’ demand will be considered. Although the amendments to the Rules of Procedure are positive, all they do is provide a framework for Parliament’s participation in this process."@en1
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