| Country | Statements of support | Threshold | Percentage | Signatures required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 10162 | 13395 | 75.86% | 3233 |
| Belgium | 13911 | 14805 | 93.96% | 894 |
| Bulgaria | 4597 | 11985 | 38.36% | 7388 |
| Croatia | 4163 | 8460 | 49.21% | 4297 |
| Cyprus | 565 | 4230 | 13.36% | 3665 |
| Czechia | 7421 | 14805 | 50.12% | 7384 |
| Denmark | 12032 | 9870 | 121.90% | 0 |
| Estonia | 3035 | 4935 | 61.50% | 1900 |
| Finland | 15319 | 9870 | 155.21% | 0 |
| France | 49153 | 55695 | 88.25% | 6542 |
| Germany | 98063 | 67680 | 144.89% | 0 |
| Greece | 5018 | 14805 | 33.89% | 9787 |
| Hungary | 9902 | 14805 | 66.88% | 4903 |
| Ireland | 10353 | 9165 | 112.96% | 0 |
| Italy | 24712 | 53580 | 46.12% | 28868 |
| Latvia | 2679 | 5640 | 47.50% | 2961 |
| Lithuania | 5123 | 7755 | 66.06% | 2632 |
| Luxembourg | 946 | 4230 | 22.36% | 3284 |
| Malta | 533 | 4230 | 12.60% | 3697 |
| Netherlands | 26374 | 20445 | 129.00% | 0 |
| Poland | 53599 | 36660 | 146.21% | 0 |
| Portugal | 8402 | 14805 | 56.75% | 6403 |
| Romania | 12377 | 23265 | 53.20% | 10888 |
| Slovakia | 4987 | 9870 | 50.53% | 4883 |
| Slovenia | 2473 | 5640 | 43.85% | 3167 |
| Spain | 36391 | 41595 | 87.49% | 5204 |
| Sweden | 19849 | 14805 | 134.07% | 0 |
Just under 3000-4000 people are required per country in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta and Luxembourg. Come on now… that’s a small town and in some places even just a village. Are there really that few gamers in those countries?
Those thresholds are irrelevant because they’ve been crossed in seven countries already, the important bit is getting another 560k votes from anywhere (in the EU).
The actual hurdle is those 1m votes, any initiative that is not completely lopsided will take the per-country hurdles with ease, as you can tell by this initiative having achieved that while not yet having half of the votes it needs. In fact taking all the thresholds together you wouldn’t reach 1m votes but ~0.5m, that is by design.
That’s not to say that it’d be a bad idea to do pushes in certain countries, particularly large ones which are less hooked into English media than the usual suspects. By population: France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Belgium is covered by Netherlands+France, Czechia, Portugal, Greece, that’s all >=10m member states lagging behind. No point in going after Sweden or the Netherlands people there are already in the loop, and Poland seems to have rallied itself.
Yeah, nevermind then. Let’s do nothing. Might as well just twiddle our thumbs and hope the large countries find another 500k people to sign the initiative. The small countries can be ignored 🤷♂
You’re being helped with info on where you can get the biggest return on your efforts, not being told to do nothing. Your reply is kind of rude if you ask me.
OK.
Theyre not telling you to shut up, they’re telling you the required treshold is reached and explaining to you there is no point in giving these countries ‘a final push’ so go home and actually read that comment.
They are dismissing the value of getting more of those small countries on board. Getting them past the threshold could also have an effect on the gamers in those countries. Who knows what kinds of people may have been untapped. Discarding them as irrelevant is counter-productive.
“Shut up, let the big boys do the lifting”. It’s the same attitudes that are pervasive throughout the union. The voices of those small countries are important. The line of thinking that small countries don’t matter fits very well with the “I’m just one person, so if I don’t vote, nobody will care”. We should be encouraging our brethren from smaller countries to be part of the democratic process instead of just excluding them. The Union wouldn’t listen to the Eastern States after Crimea’s invasion in 2014 and shrugged them off during the renewed invasion.
Imagine if we said the same thing about queers. “Nah, we don’t need their votes, they’re irrelevant, let’s focus on the hets”.
So yes, the implication of irrelevance bothers me because it’s deeper than just this issue.
You are annoying and stubborn.
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It isn’t the votes that are irrelevant, it’s the treshold. Just please read the explanation why that is, to me it sounds like you only read the first 4 or 5 words of that comment.
I don’t think you’re reading my comment in its entirety.
This is the important bit.
I did read it, i totally agree with you but me nor the person who wrote that comment said those votes or the people are irrelevant. What is irrelevant is reaching another treshold because there are already 7 met which is one of the two conditions. The one condition that isn’t met is the total of 1m regardless of nationality. I didn’t want to repeat the guy but apparently I have patience left to explain it. Wouldn’t need to if you’d just read the first comment instead of fighting everybody.