Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-07-Speech-4-239"
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"The Kaufmann report aims to direct the way in which we implement a ‘citizens’ initiative’, as defined in Article 11 of the abortive Treaty on European Union: ‘citizens of the Union numbering not less than one million who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the 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 report therefore lays down precise conditions of admissibility and concrete procedures that make the process of achieving such an initiative extremely difficult.
I should like to put the citizens on their guard here. This new ‘right’ is an illusion. It provides for only one thing: the possibility of asking the Commission to enact new European laws, but not to repeal or to change those that already exist; not to change the policies. And, in any case, there is absolutely no obligation for the Commission to listen to them.
If the Eurocrats are so keen to give rights to European citizens, they should start by respecting their vote and by finally realising that ‘No’ means ‘No’ in French, Dutch, English, Gaelic and every other language."@en1
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