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I am delighted to announce that the European Citizen Initiative (ECI) asking the EU to suspend the association agreement with Israel on human rights grounds has collected over one million signatures. The @EUCommission and the European Parliament have now a legal obligation to respond. 300K signatures were collected in less than one week!

I know this because six days ago I wrote a thread to explain how ECIs work and ask people to support this ECI in particular.



]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/8259f311-ea68-4732-a2eb-fd0f48e8afe1/1-4RSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 19:07:47 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 07:48:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:35:35 GMT]]>@alberto_cottica @EUCommission sadly not really a consolation. When somebody smashes the facility it's not really consoling to know that it's smashed for everyone else too.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116403321949033247https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116403321949033247Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:35:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:09:15 GMT]]>@capnthommo if that is any consolation, so have we. And we, too, feel cheated, and deprived of an important part of our community of destiny. No one can tell me that the British Isles are not part of Europe. @EUCommission

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402982443095195https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402982443095195Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:09:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:59:19 GMT]]>@alberto_cottica @EUCommission yes. We feel so cheated. We've lost so much.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116402943409796379https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116402943409796379Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:59:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:41:51 GMT]]>@capnthommo hopefully not forever. @EUCommission

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402874710101724https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402874710101724Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:41:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:41:08 GMT]]>@alberto_cottica @EUCommission good work. I would have signed but the idiot electorate here decided to turn its back on the EU.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116402871892334599https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116402871892334599Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:41:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:05:21 GMT]]>@alberto_cottica @EUCommission
YES ! > 1 000 000 !!!!
Oui cette pétition doit être un point d'achoppement incontestable montrant sans aucune ambiguïté à quel point les citoyens européens ne sont pas d'accord avec leurs élus qui chaque jour nous font passer pour des complices de et de crime de guerre et de crime contre l'humanité !
Leur inaction n'a que trop duré, leur seule boussole c'est le marché la notre c'est l'humanité !

Alors signez encore !

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115835849032271342/statuses/116402259302644247https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115835849032271342/statuses/116402259302644247Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:05:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:15:23 GMT]]>The link to the ECI is both in my original thread and here: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en. You know what to do! Peace out.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402062825871262https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116402062825871262Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:15:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:57:10 GMT]]>The ECI is organized by the Left Alliance group of the European Parliament. The main organizer is listed as Swedish MEP Malin Björk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malin_Bj%C3%B6rk

This means that the success of the ECI gives Björk and her allies a strong argument to demand the involvement of the Parliament. I expect them to demand that the suspension of the association agreement be discussed in plenary.

In other words, your signature to the ECI has a built-in institutional backing. That's how it should be!

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116401991200133502https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/alberto_cottica/statuses/116401991200133502Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:57:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/4 on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:52:57 GMT]]>The collection of signatures continues until January 2027. The political goal should now be to make this the most successful ECI ever (I imagine this, since I am not involved in its organization). I think 3-4 million signatures is not unrealistic.

As part of this goal, minimum thresholds should be achieved in more member states (minimum is 7, currently 10).

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