In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point. A citizens' initiative of this kind will require one million signatures, obtained in different countries.

A key factor in the success of any EU Middle East initiative will be the millions of European citizens of North African origin, who have a political, cultural, and economic role to play.

Sources at Southeast European Cooperative Initiative Anti Terrorism Task Force.

A citizens' initiative of this kind will require one million signatures, obtained in different countries.

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

This was all implicit in the European Union s single market initiative.

Sources at the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative Anti Terrorism Task Force.

European officialdom is now responding to these deficits with an initiative to reform and democratize the European Commission.

The Finnish initiative should be given strong support from all European leaders.

It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.

A major new citizens initiative called Malaria No More is raising private funds to distribute anti malaria nets.

Such an initiative would need to be supported strongly by the European Union.

The European Parliament can exercise its power only if citizens feel represented there.

Russia s initiative for a pan European security treaty should be the new operating system.

The European Union supports the initiative of a voluntary solidarity tax on air tickets.

European citizens particularly in peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain are anxious.

But not all European citizens are practicing Christians. Many are not Christians at all.

The Commission s Europe 2020 initiative sets specific targets for raising school completion rates and employment levels for all EU citizens.

The European Union, NATO, and the UN Secretary General confirmed their support for the Initiative.

As part of the United Kingdom, the area joined a common market initiative called the European Economic Community which became the European Union.

Drawing upon Switzerland and its use of the initiative, the Uruguayan Constitution also allows citizens to repeal laws or to change the constitution by popular initiative which culminates in a nation wide referendum.

With its ten new members, the European Union comprises 25 countries and 453 million citizens.

Energy can be a key driver of European competitiveness and the transition to a low carbon economy, benefiting European businesses and citizens alike.

The European Commission is now elaborating this principle in the form of a Wider Europe Initiative.

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AMSTERDAM Most European citizens (for example, more than 60 in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the European Union.

Perhaps most important, they have undermined the basis on which political union rests namely, persuading European Union citizens to identify with the European idea.

Although not organized in any real sense, the signatories of Charter 77 constituted a citizens' initiative aimed at inducing the Czechoslovak Government to observe formal obligations to respect the human rights of its citizens.

The above allowances are also granted to citizens of the member States of the European Union as well as to the citizens of the countries of the European Economic Area (law 2819 2000, Article 11) who reside in Greece.

Moreover, in 2006, 57 of European citizens declared themselves ready to move abroad for professional reasons.

Low income citizens of any member state of the European Union are entitled to legal assistance.

A comparative constitutional law survey had shown that many European constitutions reserved the same constitutional rights to their citizens as the Greek Constitution did to its citizens.

Since women constitute the majority of the Greek population, increased initiative towards taking measures to facilitate services for women citizens is deemed necessary.

The project, called European Deep Sky Near Earth Objects Survey , was a joint initiative of the Spaceguard Foundation, the European Southern Observatory, ESA, the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association and seven European countries.

No surprise, then, that many EU citizens refuse, or at least hesitate, to embrace the European cause.

Moreover, the associated MEDA funding mechanism crucially and specifically included the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights.

The European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, had demonstrated the increasing need for international cooperation.

As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.

Only a new European debate that includes both Europe s citizens and its institutions can combat alter Europeanism effectively.

So now is the time for a bold initiative the launch of a US European Union free trade agreement.

By contrast, turning creditor country citizens tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries debts would undermine European cohesion.

It is unimportant that many European Muslims are just as disenchanted and secular as their non Muslim fellow citizens.

This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis.

The European Union believes that the Russian initiative is well grounded and has shown interest in launching such a project.

Simply put, it places the interests of Europe's citizens more than ever at the heart of the European Union's activities.