A Minority SafePack európai polgári kezdeményezés és a magyarországi aláírásgyűjtés tapasztalatai
The Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative and the lessons learnt from the signature collection campaign in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In the spring of 2017, the organizers of the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative successfully challenged the European Commission’s decision from 2013 refusing the registration of the initiative at the Court of Justice of the European Union. After the historic success of the organizers at the General Court, in April 2017 the Commission registered the initiative, and thus, the one-year signature collection period started. One year later the organizers revealed the success of the initiative, as 1.3 million signatures were collected to protect the rights of autochthonous national minorities in the European Union. Hungary made huge contribution to the success of the initiative providing half of the signatures collected in the EU, and approximately one million Hungarians supported the initiative in the Carpathian Basin. The author summarizes the most important information about the European Citizens’ Initiative and the Minority SafePack Initiative, giving an insight into the signature collection campaign of the initiative in Hungary, in which he has also played a leading role.

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