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EUROPEAN REFERENDUM INITIATIVE

The European Referendum Initiative is a campaign for citizens to have the right to vote in a referendum whenever significant changes to laws affecting them are made at either national or European level.

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PETITION FOR A EUROPE FOR THE PEOPLE – BY THE PEOPLE

On November 13, 2007, more than 30 survivors of the extermination camp Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps met in Auschwitz for a one-day conference.

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'REFERENDUM FOR NATURAL REMEDIES' CAMPAIGN

This campaign aims to guarantee free access to scientifically based natural health remedies for all European Union citizens.

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EUROPEAN REFERENDUM INITIATIVE

What is the European Referendum Initiative?

Lisbon Treaty

The European Referendum Initiative is a campaign for citizens to have the right to vote in a referendum whenever significant changes to laws affecting them are made at either national or European level. In particular, we believe that all citizens should immediately be given the opportunity to vote in referendums on the Lisbon Treaty.

What are the democratic rights that the campaign is calling for?

CLICK HERE TO SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION DEMANDING A REFERENDUM ON THE LISBON TREATY!

Every citizen should have the right to:

Why is there now an urgent need for this initiative?

Other than in Ireland, no government is currently planning to allow its citizens to vote on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum. The Lisbon Treaty proposes significant changes to the functioning of the European Union, many of which favour the interests of big business at the expense of the democratic rights of citizens.

The fields in which corporate interests are seeking control cover ever more areas of society, affecting every single life. In particular, they include patents on drugs - with the goal of eliminating all non-patentable natural therapies; patents on genes – in order to gain control over the very molecules of inheritance and life; and patents on genetically modified plants – with the goal to gain control of our daily food and nutrition.

Unless these interests are stopped, and European citizens are given the right to be directly involved in political decision-making, Europe will increasingly turn into an "Orwellian continent" where dictatorship, not democracy, is the sole order of the day.