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"Madam President, I, too, would like to congratulate everyone, especially our citizens, and I look forward to us working together constructively.
It is indeed true that we need, in particular, to ensure we maintain a low threshold and that means allowing everyone to participate in a citizens’ initiative. It is therefore unfortunate that young people under the age of 18 have been denied this possibility, because they are precisely the people that we so badly want to involve in politics.
It is also unfortunate that we have left it to Member States to decide whether or not to set up initiatives online. Surely, you cannot expect us to still work with paper in this day and age when having a presence online has proved to be a very efficient tool for organising people, both politically and in terms of their interests.
What is it exactly that we expect we will be able to achieve with the citizens’ initiative? I do think that the Commission should be able to say, at a very early stage, whether certain proposals, such as those that have been put forward here, like the one about abolishing Parliament, will actually constitute a citizens’ initiative or not. What can you do about that? Who will develop these things and when can we expect a legislative proposal?
We politicians live in glass houses. People are allowed to look inside and people will now also be able to drop in and participate. I look forward to some constructive cooperation."@en1
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