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commission_receives_first_successful_european_citizens_initiativeThe European Commission has officially received the first ever successful European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), with properly validated support from at least one million European citizens in at least seven member states.

Support for the Right2Water ECI, whose organisers believe 'water is a public good, not a commodity', has been checked and validated by the national authorities of the member states. Support for the initiative crossed the minimum threshold in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.

Overall, the ECI received 1,659,543 validated statements of support, with figures from Croatia, Denmark and France still to come. The ball is now in the Commission's court. Within the next three months, it must invite the organisers to Brussels to explain their ideas in more depth, and a public hearing will be arranged in the European Parliament. Then the Commission must decide whether it will act by adopting legislation, act in some other way to achieve the goals of the ECI, or not act at all. Whichever route is taken, the Commission must explain its reasoning through a Communication adopted by the whole College of Commissioners.

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