MEPs are considering looking into how an EU citizens initiative clause allowing for petitions can be made more secure after George W. Bush and Mickey Mouse apparently signed up to a recent campaign in favour of scrapping the parliament's seat in Strasbourg.
The online petition gathered over a million supporters but exposed the flaws in the system – used for the first time at EU level – with several email addresses appearing multiple times, obviously fictitious names, and the unlikely sc...
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