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"Mr President, I want to begin in Spanish by thanking the Spanish Presidency for having taken the decision to present the initiative earlier than was originally expected. Many thanks for that.
I will now continue in German. I would like to thank the Commission for having taken on the Spanish Presidency’s initiative and for having come out and said, ‘OK, we will act quicker than that, we will put forward the proposal next week’. We hope that there will be a finished proposal by the summer. That is important in order to meet the expectations of the citizens.
Like many of those who have spoken before me, I believe the planned nine-country hurdle is just too high. My proposal would be to start at five, which is a fifth of the Member States. It is not easy to collect a million signatures, even if, perhaps, you can use the Internet to do so. It is necessary, however, to show the people that we want them to participate in this shared Europe of ours and to hold a real European debate. I think it is important that the legal, formal and content-based examination of this matter takes place right from the outset and not once people have already begun to collect signatures. There should also be support for the initiatives, for example, with translations. If that happens, we will be able to once again enthuse the citizens about our shared Europe – and more strongly, too."@en1
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