Citizens`initiative
The Lisbon Treaty provides for that 1 million European citizens can sign a petition to the EU. The European Parliament proposed in the Kaufmann-report from Mai 2009 that the signatures must represent at least 1/500 of the citizens in at least 1/4 of the member states.
More than 1,2 million citizens have signed a petition for having only one seat for the European Parliament. The Conference of Presidents in the European Parliament decided not to allow a debate in the plenary about the petition.
