The Commission’s portal lists as ‘successful initiatives’ all those that gained the required number of signatures under the stated conditions: their number currently stands at just four. These are the three referred to in the first part of this Beacon (see EUROPE B11255A1), all of which were handled by the ‘Barroso II’ Commission; for ‘Stop vivisection’ and ‘One of us’, it decided not to propose any legislation. In its response to the ECI on drinking water, on the other...