Commission registers European Citizens’ Initiative entitled ‘Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart’

On 16 May 2017 the Commission decided on the partial registration of a European Citizens' Initiative on tackling wage and economic inequality, concerning legal acts within its competences.

European Citizens' Initiatives were introduced with the Lisbon Treaty and launched as an agenda-setting tool in the hands of citizens in April 2012, upon the entry into force of the European Citizens' Initiative Regulation which implements the Treaty provisions.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The European Citizens’ Initiative is five years old – and it has been no step forward for EU democracy http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-european-citizens-initiative-is-five-years-old-and-it-has-been-no-step-forward-for-eu-democracy/

ESO: Background information: The European Citizens' Initiative http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-european-citizens-initiative/

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