Tag Archives: petitions

A modest proposal… for the ECI

Posted on 26 Apr 2016 by

A commonsense proposal for making the EU’s Citizen Initiative (ECI) more lightweight and effective – based on some old research. Continue reading →

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ECI4all sytem: Replacement of OCS announced – but who are they?

Posted on 19 Feb 2013 by

You may be aware that the European Commission has been supporting the development of an online collection systems for online signatures for the European Citizens Initiative – it’s called OCS and hosted on the JoinUp platform. Now, the OCS has a … Continue reading →

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Petitions to the European Parliament – 2009 report

Posted on 24 Jan 2011 by

I’ve finally been able to write some notes from the European Parliament’s report on petitioning in 2009 – it was approved 7 June 2010, so really I have no excuse for being so late with this piece. Despite the delay, … Continue reading →

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Has e-petitioning been ‘useless’?

Posted on 11 Jan 2011 by

I think I’ll use my first blog post of 2011 (Happy New Year by the way) for a quick refresher on (e)petitioning. One of my favourite quotes on the subject of e-petitions is from a letter to the Telegraph of … Continue reading →

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Security for signatures: petitions and the European Citizens’ Initiative

Posted on 12 Feb 2010 by

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is a potentially significant change coming out of the Lisbon Treaty: here, I try to see how general security principles could be applied to the process from signing up (online) to validating an entire ECI … Continue reading →

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