The European Citizen Initiative is in full bloom

There are 15 open citizen initiatives collecting signatures in the European Citizen Initiative. Nine of them were registered in 2019 and five of them in the last month of May. These concern things like ending the aviation fuel tax exempetion, protection of biodiversity, solution to climate change and animal rights. The European Citizen Initiative has… Continue reading The European Citizen Initiative is in full bloom

The E-petition and politics in the 2000s

This is the Holy Grail of digital democracy, or e-democracy. Is there a space for electronic technology to impact political policy? The load of political discussion with the help of electronic technologies, like the internet and computer/smartphones, are shaping political statements in an ever increasing way. News papers are digitalizing their paper versions and we… Continue reading The E-petition and politics in the 2000s