The expectations attached to the EU’s new participatory democracy tool are high.
The European Citizens Initiative (ECI), allowing citizens to influence EU law-making, is seen as the most significant democratic reform in Europe since the introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979.
Yet for all the pre-implementation hype, the new democracy instrument has gotten off to a poor start.
Of the first six officially registered initiatives, not one has begun...
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