Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-12-15-Speech-3-928"
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"The compromise between the European Parliament and the Council on the regulation on the so-called citizens’ initiative, which has been accompanied by ridiculous triumphant talk about the strengthening of the democratic institutions of the EU, is nothing more than an insulting attempt to manipulate and fool the people. The misleadingly entitled citizens’ initiative is not only useless; it may prove to be dangerous for the people. Apart from any procedural requirements agreed in terms of collecting 1 000 000 signatures petitioning the Commission to take a legislative initiative, materially it is the same: the Commission is under no obligation to propose the legislative initiative and is not bound by its contents.
On the contrary, this type of ‘citizens’ initiative’, guided and manipulated by the mechanisms of capital and the bourgeois political system, may be used by EU bodies to present the most anti-grassroots and reactionary choices of the EU and the monopolies as an apparently ‘popular request’. Moreover, this sort of ‘initiative’ will be used to set signatures, memoranda and requests against the organised grassroots and working class movement, mass demonstrations and struggles and various forms of fight. Various ‘citizens’ initiatives’ cannot hide the reactionary face of the EU, nor will they be able to reverse the escalation in the class struggle and grassroots fight."@en1
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