The European citizens’ initiative. Over one million support, and what next?
The European citizens’ initiative. Over one million support, and what next?

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the analysis in this article are European citizens’ initiatives, which during 12 monthsgained the support of over 1 million of the EU citizens from at least seven Member States. The aimof the article is to examine, what actions have been taken in these matters by the European Commission. The following research questions were posed: (1) What was the effect of the Commission’scall to submit, under its power, proposals, for which, in the opinion of the citizens supporting theinitiative, the application of the Treaties requires a legal act of the Union? (2) What actions has theCommission taken and what is their justification? The analysis demonstrates that these initiativeshave been taken into account by the Commission to a very small extent in the procedures for establishing legislative acts of the European Union. Therefore, it is reasonable to amend the Regulationon the European Citizens’ Initiative.

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