NEWSLETTER #19
13 November 2006
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0) Editorial: European Citizens' Initiative
1) Please support the ECI
2) Bremen: Citizens submission successful
3) Democratic education in South Tyrol
4) Budapest Forum 2006
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0) Editorial: European Citizens' Initiative
by Ronald Pabst
This month, I am happy to announce a success.
In Bremen, we gathered enough signatures to trigger
a referendum. The aim is to introduce a fair election
law.
So we achieved an important goal. But there are still
a lot things to do. And you can help us:
The signature gathering for the European Citizens'
Initiative has been launched on 9 November. Join the growing
numbers of supporters by signing the appeal now. And please
spread the information about our new European-wide project
via your networks.
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1) Please support the ECI
We demand the introduction of the European Citizens'
Initiative (ECI) by a regulation into European law. Such a
regulation would require the European Commission to respond
to a proposed change in European law signed by at least one
million EU citizens. The campaign is already supported by
more than 90 NGOs and 47 MEPs. But the EU institutions are
unlikely to introduce a strong regulation without further
public pressure, so it is up to the citizens to demand its
introduction.
Please join the campaign by signing at:
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2) Bremen: Citizens submission successful
71.261 citizens supported our motion for a fair election
law. This was the first time, that in the German region
Bremen an initiative was able to gather the necessary amount
of signatures.
more information
www.democracy-international.org/bremen-success.html
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3) Democratic education in South Tyrol
The initiative for direct democracy in South Tyrol has
decided to launch a campaign. The group aims to improve the
regulations on initiative and referendum in the region. We
present a translation of an article published in the
newspaper "Demokratie Direkt": Stephan Lausch reports about
an alternative approach to teach democracy.
www.democracy-international.org/education.html
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4) Budapest Forum 2006
A conference aims to explore Hungary's and Switzerland's
experiences and contributions of making Europe and
themselves more democratic. It will take place on 20
November. The event targets at finding out, by what means
and policies they can contribute to a better democratic
quality of the national and international political systems
in Europe.
Please find more information at:
liberalisfiatalok.hu/lifeevent/index.php
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Ronald Pabst / Stefan Wolf / Lars Bosselmann
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