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Most European citizens have never heard of the European Citizens’ Initiative
Ten years after its creation, the European Citizens Initiative is one of the most important instruments of participatory democracy in the EU. At the same time, citizens are not aware it even exists, according to a recent poll.
Published on 9 May 2021 at 08:00
Introduced by the Treaty on European Union in 2011, it requires
at least 1 million signatures of European citizens from a significant number of member states;
it must touch on a domain of relevance to the EU Commission s competences;
it deals with an issue that the signatories consider needing an EU legal act.