Minority SafePack


Minority SafePack — one million signatures for diversity in Europe is an ongoing European Citizens' Initiative on minority rights in the EU, sponsored by FUEN.

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The proposals registered by the European Commission were summarised as follows
The proposals rejected by the European Commission were:
The European Commission initially refused to register the initiative, in 2013. The authors have appealed the refusal in court, where they were joined by Hungary and the Commission - by Slovakia and Romania. The General Court annulled the Commission decision in February 2017. In March 2017, the Commission decided to launch collection of signatures for 9 of 11 proposals initially included in the initiative.

Collection of signatures

Collection of signatures began in April 2017, and continued until 3 April 2018.
The initiative has been supported by the Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion, by the Basque Parliament and the Parliament of Navarre; an invitation to sign it was published at the web portal of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. As reported by FUEN, it has also been supported by the President of the European Parliament and the Hungarian Parliament.
As of 4 April 2018, the initiative has been supported online by 771,089 EU citizens. The necessary statewide threshold has been achieved by online signatures in nine member states, with seven having been needed.
Counting both online and offline signatures, the petition has been signed by 1,215,789 EU citizens. The threshold was reached in eleven countries, namely Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, Denmark, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Italy. On 25 July, it was confirmed that over 1.1 million signatures have been recognised as valid.