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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10842

8 May 2013
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) petitions
1.5 million signatures for water to be a human right

Brussels, 07/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) welcomes the fact that the petition “Water is a Human Right” is the first European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to meet the criteria set out in European legislation.

The petition, launched in spring 2012, has been signed by 1.5 million citizens from eight member states (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Slovakia). According to the EPSU, several thousand...

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