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26 November 2024
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European Citizens’ Initiative
Newsletter
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Follow us: ECI Official Group
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News
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Initiative updates: Status of support per initiative
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To be considered by the European Commission, citizens’ initiatives require 1 million valid signatures, and minimum thresholds reached in 7 EU countries.
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Several initiatives reached the following significant milestones:
Over 875,000:
Over 390,000:
Over 150,000:
Over 110,000:
Over 20,000:
Visit our website to see all open initiatives.
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Follow-up: ‘Fur Free Europe’ ECI
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The Commission replied to the ‘Fur Free Europe’ initiative in December 2023. Since then, there has been a lot of follow-up work to this answered citizens’ initiative.
On-site visits to fur farms to explore the ‘One Health’ controls in place happened in Finland (March) and more recently in Poland (September) and Spain (October).
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A survey on fur animals was addressed to Member States authorities allowing the collection of factual information and data that will feed into a Commission assessment of actions mentioned in the communication.
The Commission has also been working on a revision of the Textile Labelling Regulation, including a stakeholders’ workshop that took place in October.
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Prepare your applications: CERV funding open soon
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Are you looking for EU funding on a project related to citizens engagement, safeguarding diversity and civil rights or empowering citizens in democratic life, among other topics?
The Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme is an EU funding programme to keep on your radar. A new citizens engagement call was published on 20 November. You can prepare your application now and submit it between mid-January 2025 and 29 April 2025.
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Share your feedback on the EP elections
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Did you know that the elections to the European Parliament are one of the world’s biggest democratic exercises?
To support free, fair and resilient elections, a European Commission report on the 2024 European Parliament elections will give a full review of how they were conducted.
Give your input about your experience and findings before 4 December.
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"EU Take the Initiative" campaign
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15th Anniversary of the Treaty of Lisbon
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Looking for a way to promote the European Citizens’ Initiative?
The 15th Anniversary of the Treaty of Lisbon is coming up on 1 December.
The Treaty introduced a right to “citizens’ initiative” in 2009, paving a way for the ECI to be born (it became operational in April 2012). Since the ECI started, more than 20 million signatures have been collected in support of more than 100 citizens’ initiatives.
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The Treaty grants EU citizens more equality, representation and power to participate in EU lawmaking.
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New ECI communication materials
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New video resources are available featuring ECI Ambassadors and a National Contact Point. They tell us why they support the European Citizens’ Initiative and invite others to take part. We’d like to thank them for getting involved!
Find the videos with subtitles in all official EU languages on the communication materials page of the ECI website.
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From the ECI Forum
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ECI Communicators Network
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ECI Ambassadors: Activate your inspiration
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Throughout the year, ECI Ambassadors spread the word about the ECI in their local context. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing examples so you can get inspired to #EUTakeTheInitiative!
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- Tina Đaković and The Human Rights House Zagreb, Croatia:
Participated in a radio interview for Croatian Radio, followed by a media article published on their online portal, to commemorate Europe Day in Rijeka. The ECI was presented as a tool for participation and citizens were encouraged to get involved.
- Leanne Magro and Europe Direct Valletta, Malta:
Published an online article with an overview of the ECI. It also includes information on how to support open citizens' initiatives, highlights success stories, and promoted the European Democracy passport.
- Cristina Santana Acosta and Europe Direct Canarias, Spain:
Gave presentations on the ECI in several schools and at the European Night of Researchers. They are also actively posting on social media.
- European Youth Parliament (EYP) Finland:
Launched a newsletter for secondary school teachers aiming to inform them about activities and opportunities regularly through the year. In one edition, they shared the ECI toolkit for schools with the teachers, suggesting the toolkit can help keep their students engaged with European democracy even after the elections are over.
Thank you and keep up the great work!
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New ECI Ambassadors: Welcome!
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We’ve welcomed three new ECI Ambassadors to our network recently. The ECI Ambassadors help make information about the ECI available at national and local levels and they empower citizens to make use of their EU citizenship rights.
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Joining the programme are people from:
- Belgium: Team Europe Direct Belgium, Marc Demets
- Hungary: Csaba Madarász, co-founder at aHang, president at Digital Community Tools Foundation
- Netherlands: Europe Direct Eindhoven, Jacques Giesbertz
Meet all the ECI Ambassadors.
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Did you know..?
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ECI Facebook Group – help us reach 2,000 members!
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The ECI Facebook group has over 1,800 members - let's go for 2,000! As a member of the group, you get the latest updates on what various ECI Communicators are doing and have a space to share your thoughts linked to the ECI.
Make sure you have joined and invite 3 friends to join today!
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ISSN: 2812-1864
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Catalogue Number: KA-01-24-003-EN-Q
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