You can now send a petition to the European Parliament and get it signed by people across Europe.
We are trialing a process which allows people in Bristol to raise online petitions for consideration directly by the European Parliament. These europetitions can be viewed and signed by citizens in other member states. This is part of a European pilot project.
The European Parliament will consider petitions about environmental matters, consumer protection, free movement of people, goods and services, employment issues, social policy, your rights as a European citizen, recognition of qualifications and other problems in relation to the implementation of EU law.
If you are passionate about any issues that concern the European Parliament you should raise a petition at the Bristol Europetitioning site. Choose ‘European Parliament’ as your target and you could soon be gathering supporters across the UK and in Spain, Italy, Sweden and The Netherlands.
Bristol has a long tradition of supporting democracy and citizen engagement, both off line and on-line. Bristol was one of the first councils to develop an online consultation portal (www.askbristol.com ) and in 2004 was the first Local Authority, with Kingston, to trial ePetitioning.
Find out more about the European pilot on the Europetion website, or by watching this short news video.
