The Citizens’ Initiative - first set out in the Constitutional Treaty - should be enacted immediatley to open a new channel for democratic participation in Europe and help to create the public realm the EU badly needs. The Citizens' Initiative stipulates that a petition with at least one million signatures obtained from a number of

When is the EU going to admit it got it totally and utterly wrong when they started to effectively ban natural therapies and medicines, by playing along with the sweet talking generous men from Big Pharma. The EU has already got their armies of little Hitlers out checking natural health stores for those natural supplements that didn

Let's stop pussyfooting about and declare what the true intentions are for our future superstate, let's not wait for the legalities to be settled. For years the commission has been run like the old politburo, in secrecy and to its own agenda. Well, this has to stop. People have to understand the new realities, and calling a spade an

Vrijwilligerswerk speelt een rol in de Europese economische en sociale ontwikkeling. In de Europese Unie engageren zich meer dan 100 miljoen mensen in het vrijwilligerswerk, en een groot deel van de bevolking stelt dat vrijwilligerswerk een deel van het democratisch en sociaal leven in de Europese Unie vormt (Speciale Eurobarometer