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Wait, in the EU you can just petition the government and they have to respond after some threshold?
by solardev 1y ago
Wait, in the EU you can just petition the government and they have to respond after some threshold?
- LM358 1y agoYes, both at the EU level and also in many countries (EU and non-EU), see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens%27_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens%27_Initiativ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_initiative
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y ago"Some threshold" is doing a lot of work here, since the requirement is a million signatures (which also need to be from multiple countries). I made a small mistake, the response will be from the Commission, not Parliament, because only the Commission can propose laws anyways - but you do get a hearing in parliament. But essentially, even crossing the million signature threshold doesn't win you anything but a slightly bigger soap box and the promise of the Commission giving you a "no" in writing rather than just ignoring you. There is no requirement to actually act on it, and no way to force it (unlike e.g. in Switzerland where actual binding popular votes can be initiated with enough signatures).
- nly 1y agoWe have this in the UK too,but it's a waste of time. You just get a stock/automated response to most petitions. That said, they are required to set aside some parliamentary time for it and for petitions to be "debated".