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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, until the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union was not open to the requests of its citizens, partly because two of its main bodies – the Commission and the Council – are appointed and not elected like Parliament, and also because there was no provision for public participation. With the entry into force of the new treaty, European citizens can submit proposed initiatives by collecting a sufficient number of signatures. We are somewhat in favour of the regulation, because it improves on the Commission's initial text. The admissibility procedure for the proposal is combined with the registration procedure and is followed by the collection and verification of signatures. Unfortunately, the report is inadequate due to the lack of any mechanism to verify the authenticity of signatures. This could lead to the submission of false signatures and therefore detract from the popular democratic value of the initiative."@en1
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