How signing works

First, the honest banner above this page

Read the status box at the top. Today there is nothing to sign, anywhere, and anyone collecting signatures or data for this initiative today is not us. This page exists so that, if registration ever comes, a million people find the path already paved in their own language.

How signing a European Citizens' Initiative actually works

Signing never happens on this site. Every signature for every initiative is collected on the European Commission's own central online system, or on official paper forms, under Regulation (EU) 2019/788. Your data goes to the Commission and to your Member State's authorities for verification, and to nobody else, and this campaign never sees it. The official page for any initiative, and the only place to sign one, is citizens-initiative.europa.eu.

Who can sign

Every EU citizen old enough to vote in European Parliament elections: 18 in most Member States, lower in a few. You sign as a citizen of your country, wherever in the world you live. You can sign any initiative only once.

What you would need to enter

It depends on your Member State, because verification is national. The Member States fall into two groups: about half verify against your name, address, date of birth and nationality, and the rest ask in addition for a personal identification number or an identity document number, for example from your national ID card or passport. The Commission's signing page shows the exact fields for your country before you type anything. This difference matters for a campaign, because asking for an ID number is a higher barrier, and it is why serious initiatives plan country by country.

Why an initiative needs more than a million signatures in practice

The legal bar is one million valid statements of support within twelve months, with country minimums reached in at least seven Member States, each minimum being roughly the country's number of MEPs multiplied by 750. Some signatures always fail verification, so experienced organisers aim well above the bar. Of the initiatives registered since 2012, roughly one in nine has reached it. The ones that did were carried by coalitions with real networks in many countries, which is why this project's own gates require organisers and institutional partners before any filing.

What this campaign will and will not do during collection

If collection ever opens, this site will link to the official Commission signing page and nothing else: no signature form of its own, no petition, no email harvesting. The text people sign will be frozen and published beside the living draft, with every difference visible, under the rule already adopted on the versions page. Anything claiming to be this initiative that asks for your data anywhere else is not this initiative.

What you can do before any of that exists

Read the one-page summary, argue with the objections, and if you would consider being one of the seven organisers, or connecting the project to an organisation with reach in your country, say so on the take part page. A million signatures are collected by networks, and the network is what does not exist yet.