Around 15 Million people who reside, work and form families in the
European Union are excluded from citizenship rights such as the right to vote
and stand in elections. A Europe wide petition has been launched to call for
a European Citizenship of residence, requiring one Million signatures of individuals
and organisations across Europe.
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for the petition to extend European citizenship to all residents, regardless
of their nationality. To achieve its goal, this petition must collect more
than one million signatures from all European Union countries.
To succeed, it is necessary that partners supervise the “One million”
petition campaign and collect signatures in each European Union country.
The petition is translated into the different languages of the European Union.
One million signatures for a EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP OF RESIDENCE
The European Union constitution draft, like previous treaties, stipulates
that “people who have the nationality of a member State” hold
the European Union citizenship. Today, as yesterday, we find this definition
inacceptable because it excludes 15 million extra-European people residing
in the European Union from European citizenship.
In case the Constitution is adopted, and according to Art 1-46-4, one million
citizens (at least) from several member States can call for an initiative
from the Commission. This is the object of the present petition, which aims
at gathering more than one million signatures in European countries in order
to ask for a new definition of European citizenship :“Any individual
who resides on a territory of a member State or who is a national of a member
State gains citizenship of the Union”.
Whatever the evolution of the Constitution draft, the collected signatures
will be delivered to the Union different Governments, to the European Commission
and to the European Parliament.