EU initiative rights

Europeans Gaining Initiative Rights While Americans' Rights Attacked

Mon, Apr 5 2010 by Staff

While around the United States legislators and special interests seek to restrict citizens’ initiative & referendum petitioning rights, the European Union is expanding them. Joe Matthews of the New America Foundation notes:

The news here are the choices the Europeans appear to be making about how to structure the new signature gathering process. In almost every way, their process represents a vast improvement on what we have in California.


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