Lawsuit embarrasses EU over its failure to act on 'One of Us' initiative

The organisers of the highly successful pro-life European Citizens' Initiative ‘One Of Us’ have filed a formal lawsuit against the EU’s executive for its refusal to take action in response to the petition's massive response.

European Citizens' Initiatives require 1 million signatures in order for the the EU executive to take action.

The One of Us petition, which aimed to protect human life from the point of conception, gained nearly 2 million signatures from across 20 countries and yet the EU executive has refused to take action.

Christian Concern took the lead in publicising the One of Us initiative in the UK, along with Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CoRE).

The aim of the lawsuit is to ask the court what a European Citizen Initiative is good for, if such a successful campaign can be ignored by the EU.
 
In a 30-page complaint, the citizens’ committee (which managed the One of Us campaign) exposes the lack of argument and “intellectual poverty of the Commission’s answer to the initiative”, which it says violates the Commission’s obligations to Europe’s citizens.
 
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