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Paula Soler

With fewer than 10% answered: Are European Citizens' Initiatives missing the mark?

Would you like to see a Europe without animal testing? Guarantee legal and safe access to abortion? Or eliminate toxic pesticides from the environment? Collect one million signatures in a year, and you’ll get the chance to help shape the EU’s agenda. 

That’s the promise behind the European Citizens’ Initiatives (ECI)—an official participatory democracy tool launched in 2012 to give citizens a direct say in policymaking. 

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