But what is an ECI?
What is a »European Citizens' Initiative«?
A European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) is a formal participatory democracy tool in the European Union that allows EU citizens to directly ask the European Commission to propose new laws.
To succeed, an initiative must gather at least one million valid signatures from EU citizens of voting age within one year, reaching minimum signature thresholds in at least seven different EU Member States. If successful, the European Commission is legally required to examine the proposal, meet with the organizers, hold a public hearing in the European Parliament, and issue a formal response explaining what legislative action (if any) it intends to take.
#basicincome#eciubi2027#ubi#eci#eu
Governments around the world grapple with not having access to their email, due to a Microsoft outage. It really is time for them to host their own mail services and generally diversify. Relying so heavily on Big Tech is just a really bad idea.
#Microsoft#Outlook#Mail#Government#EU#Europa
This #meme is dedicated to anyone who has argued that we need client side scanning, digital ID, encryption backdoors and so on for "child safety". That's not safety, it's surveillance.
#memetheEU#EU#eupol#chatcontrol#eukidsact
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#EuropeanSocial#EU#SocialWeb
Israel is preparing to annex the whole of the West Bank... #palestine #levant #greaterisrael #usa #uk #eu #ksa #uae #qatar #bahrain #ukraine #dubai #mena #capitalism #fascism #zionism #genocide #usdhegemony #iran #iraq #afghanistan #pakistan #india #ordonovoseclorum
Israel is preparing to annex the whole of the West Bank right now.
yessterday, Netanyahu flew to Hebron in a flak jacket and promised to destroy entire neighbourhoods and build settlements on the ruins in a military operation larger than we’ve seen in decades.
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#MAGAmerica is the ally of russia, it is the enemy of the free and democratic world and in this war explicitly the enemy of Ukraine.
Actual they are limiting the speed of drone connected to them to 60mph, which disables any useful way to use drones.
Also they have stopped to report ballistic missile to Ukraine, so MAGAmerica is actively fighting together with russia(orclandia) against Ukraine.
#USA / #MAGAMerica: Shame! Shame! Shame!
#EU put starlink on the sanctions-list with stopping them from operating i n EU at all, if they not go back to allow Ukraine to defend against orcland.
the French people are burning the streets because it's the... #france #eu #uk #politics #austerity #alwaysenoughforwarneverenoughforthepoor #capitalism #fascism #genocide
the French people are burning the streets because it's the only language the state understands.
The lesson that France is currently teaching is one that applies far beyond its borders, and spectacle readers in Britain, in Ireland, in the United States, in every country where the same austerity and the same contempt and the same degradation of public services is being imposed by governments with no mandate and no answers, should be paying close attention. The French are demonstrating something that is easy to forget when you are watching from inside a system that has been designed to make organised resistance feel futile: the state does not respond to reason alone. It does not move because of petitions or polite letters or even electoral pressure, because all of those things can be absorbed, delayed, managed, and eventually forgotten. It responds to disruption, to the credible assertion that the country cannot function normally while its people are being ignored, and the French people have been making that assertion, with remarkable consistency and remarkable discipline, for weeks.
They let the ambulances through. They block the roads and then they open them for the fire trucks and then they close them again, because they understand that their anger is not directed at the people the state is also failing to protect. They have chosen their targets carefully, and their message is clear. The system that is telling you there is no money for schools spent billions on war. The government that is cutting your pension sent its children to private school. The state that fires tear gas at 14-year-olds is the same state that has an answer for every question except the ones that matter.
