Today, it is a great day to celebrate how citizens can impact the European Union politics.
On April 30th 2020, after efforts to have an urgency procedure activated, Virginia Fiume (Eumans coordinator) presented in front of the PETI Committee of the European Parliament the petition to the EP calling for a European response to the COVID19 social, economic and health crisis – #EuCanDoIt.
The petition urges the European Union to strengthen its role at international level in managing the pandemic and other emergencies, such as the climate emergency, and to convocate and strengthen the mandate of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
The PETI Committee proposed to follow-up to the petition with a short Motion for Resolution, on which the Coordinators of the political groups will be called to vote again. It is up to them to decide on the parliamentary iter of the petition. And we will do our best together to make sure this historical opportunity doesn’t get wasted.
On the 14th of May we received an official letter from the PETI Committee informing us that the Petition will be discussed within the AFCO Committee (Constitutional Affairs) and the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe, as a preparatory work for the evaluation of a short motion resolution.
This is a first important result: thanks to the support of common European citizens and several mayors, the European Parliament has now the concrete possibility to start a process which could bring the European Union to take a leadership role in dealing with global and strategic issues to recover from the crisis.
We will keep working on this – and we need you!
WATCH HERE THE PRESENTATION OF THE PETITION BY VIRGINIA FIUME AND THE REACTIONS OF THE COMMISSION AND THE MEPS
