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"I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on her work and voted in favour of her report. It embraces the EU citizenship report 2010 published by the Commission, which aims to dismantle the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights. It also shows that, although the right to petition the European Parliament is expressly provided for in the European Treaties, it is not sufficiently well known or used and it is therefore necessary to proceed towards better and active communication with citizens. The report must therefore produce a greater sense of belonging in European identity, which needs not only to be recreated but also developed, and the European Year of Citizens, which will be celebrated in 2013, needs to be used to show citizens that freedom of movement also means the free exercising of rights in Europe. Finally, I believe that the European Citizens’ Initiative, applicable from 1 April 2012, will represent the first instrument and an important step for direct and transnational participatory democracy, which will give citizens the opportunity to participate more actively in the definition of European policies."@en1
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