EWA-Newsletter

Issue 2 / June 2017

The Lisbon Treaties have introduced the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) as an element of participatory democracy: one million EU citizens may participaate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal.
To recall, the first ever success initiative has been Right2Water, referring to access to water and sanitations as a basic human right, and in particular requesting EU legislation to ensure such right.