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A Yes-But Initiative
“ Yes to the Constitution, But with Democracy
As Well”
Trans-European Petition
Let us democratize the European
Union !
In order to further
the democratization of the European Union, I,
the undersigned, Mr. Mrs……, request
the national and common governments of the European
Union to institute the following four changes
immediately or at the latest upon the adoption
of the current draft of the Constitution :
A.
To assure that all future amendments
of the European Constitution should in the future
be ratified by a trans-European referendum,
with a simple double majority of citizens and
of states (in other words, that in order
to be adopted, an amendment should win more
than 50% of the votes from the EU as a whole
and in at least half of the member states).
B.
To assure, according to the same
logic of democracy, that any expansion of the
EU should nevertheless submit to the same process
of approval by trans-European referendum, to
the simple double majority of citizens and of
states. This procedure should be applied
to all expansion subsequent to those involving
Rumania, Bulgaria and Croatia.
C.
To assure the automaticity of
the transformation of all valid citizen petitions
(as anticipated by the current draft of a European
Constitution) into propositions of the European
Commission to the Council and to European parliaments.
So it’s a question of suppressing
the current clause permitting the Commission
to refuse the contents of a petition while respecting
at the same time the criteria of validity in
terms of signatures and of nationalities.
D. To
immediately suppress judicial immunities that
benefit functionaries of the European institutions,
and to return to the latter accountability before
the law in the countries where the institutions
that employ them are located, in order to
assure the equality of all Europeans before
the law.
While assuring the
right of citizens and European peoples :
first of all, to decide what essential changes
will affect the functioning and the nature of
the European Union (modifications of the Constitution
and future expansion),
second of all, to be able to intitiate such
changes,
and finally, to establish the equality of all
European citizens before the law,
these
four propositions describe the foundations of what
I hope will tomorrow be a democratic European Union.
Translated
by Emily Robin Jackson
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