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Right 2 Water
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02/12/13 21:19
02/12/13 21:19
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Hello everybody. at first I have to remark that this thread is for the inhabitants of the european union in the first place. This is about an initiative that wants to establish a human right on water and is put against privatisation of water supply in the european union as it is currently planned. I can only recommend participating by signing in initiative: http://www.right2water.eu/German only: Hier ist noch ein unterhaltsames Video zum Thema. Erwing Pelzig bringt seine Liebe zu Europa und zum ZDF zum Ausdruck: http://www.youtube.com/v/w7PDVxDdkgo
Last edited by Uhrwerk; 02/12/13 21:24. Reason: Blödes Video Embedding... :-/
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Re: Right 2 Water
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02/12/13 22:51
02/12/13 22:51
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It is wonderful that Uhrwerk mentions this initiative. I can only emphasis the importance to participate. A European Citizens' Initiative is a new tool for participatory democracy in Europe that has been available since 1 April 2012. Citizens can put an issue on the European political agenda by means of an ECI, which involves collecting one million signatures from at least seven different EU Member States. You can see that there are already one million signatures reached, BUT there are still way too less from other countries than Germany! So, please, whereever you live in the European Union, spread the word and sign the initiative! I hope this tool of democracy will be established in the minds of the European citizens and used often.
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Re: Right 2 Water
[Re: Uhrwerk]
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02/13/13 02:54
02/13/13 02:54
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Signed and sent to all my family and friends via email to spread the word. Thanks for arising awareness about this issue, I had no clue! EDIT: Video in english http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQcDDF0f4c
Last edited by Carlos3DGS; 02/13/13 02:58. Reason: added english video
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Re: Right 2 Water
[Re: 3run]
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02/13/13 15:50
02/13/13 15:50
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Can I sign from Russia? Or are there only EU citizens are allowed to sign? It's an EU petition so only inhabitants of the EU may sign it. And if one did it could be considered to be committing "crimes against humanity" or something similar? So they could be forced to revoke their decision, be heavily penalized, or even attacked by the EU/UN or other organization? Carlos, this is an EU citizen initiative and hence can only influence EU right. If the petition succeeds (it already did with 1.000.000 signs) the EU has to rethink the decision to liberalize the water market. If the content of the petition became legal right the members of the EU had to put this in national right. If they don't legal action can be taken against that country. At the end of such an action there is monetary penalty for that country. As far as I know this is pretty frequent, e.g germany has about 80 of those actions against it because it's laws do not correspond to the EU laws. Please note that the E.U is not a military alliance. That's the NATO for europe (even if the U.S. are in the NATO as well.) Hence it cannot and will not attack random countries to bring them democracy.
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Re: Right 2 Water
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02/13/13 15:53
02/13/13 15:53
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Can I sign from Russia? Or are there only EU citizens are allowed to sign? It's an EU petition so only inhabitants of the EU may sign it. Then I'm really sorry that I can't help.
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Re: Right 2 Water
[Re: 3run]
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02/13/13 16:12
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You can. Pass it to all your friend from the european union.
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