The report adopted on Wednesday 20 June by the European Parliament’s constitutional affairs committee (AFCO) on reform of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) does not meet the demands of ECI organisers.
The ECI was set up by the Lisbon Treaty to make it possible for at least one million of EU citizens to‘invite’ the European Commission to unveil legislative proposals on a subject over which the EU has power.
The instrument has not achieved the expected results and is the subject...