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Some time ago, I looked into EU petitions and discovered that it is very easy to submit one.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home
In the crossposted article, I describe how my first EU petition went. There is a numbered comment for each step. This is the translated post in English, as this is more practical in terms of language tagging.
Nice writeup of the process!
Don’t quote me on this, but IIRC the problem is not that it’s super complex to set up a petition, but having one small mistake or vague definition will cause the petition to fail in the case of “difficult” topics. It takes a lot of work and time to get the petition required amount of signatures and then it can be dismissed within 10 minutes during a debate or preprocess, without the possibility of filling in info or countering debate points.
