The General Court of the European Union annulled, on Wednesday 12 May, a decision of the European Commission refusing to register a proposed European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) on EU trade policy on the grounds that the refusal was not sufficiently reasoned (Case T-789/19).
Introduced by Mr Tom Moerenhout and six other citizens, the ECI aimed at the adoption of legal acts to prevent EU legal entities from both importing products originating from illegal settlements in occupied territories...