Citizens’ initiative to help Faymann’s anti-nuclear crusade

EurActiv reports that the Chancellor of Austria, Social Democrat Werner Faymann, joined anti-nuclear activists on the 25 April 2011 to call for a public campaign to eliminate nuclear power in the European Union. His aides said that the Chancellor hoped to mobilise public opinion to prompt the launch of a European Citizens' Initiative.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU's first attempt to frame citizens' initiative http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-european-citizens-initiative-2/

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