Civil society activists backed by several MEPs have launched a campaign for a new EU law recognizing the legal force of citizens' petitions signed by one million Europeans - in a bid to avoid waiting passively for the final verdict on the bloc's EU constitution which introduced the idea.
The European Citizens' Initiative aims to collect signatures for a petition that the European Commission should be obliged to act if asked by a million citizens to propose a change to an EU law.
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