Next week, EP committees will be busy discussing rating agency reform, ACTA, a proposed automatic emergency call service and projects to improve animal welfare.
MEPs want the Citizens' Initiative to be easy to use, no ID card numbers needed and a lower threshold for the number of Member States. Crime victims should receive protection even when they move to another Member State.
As user-friendly as possible, that's the MEPs' vision for the new tool of direct democracy, the European Citizens' Initiative. They voted their stand on the initiatives' admissibility criteria on Tuesday.