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France and Germany already hit their quorum. Now five more member states need to hit 100%. And the main goal of reaching 1 million of course.
Germany shows 96.45% for me. So not quite there yet.
That’s only the online votes. If you add votes collected by other means, you get more than the threshold.
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en
And those numbers are (slightly) out of date
Meanwhile, France almost at 200%.
Thank you for sharing! Now we need to spread to the countries where this position is still not very known.
Portugal and Ireland only have about 500 signatures each for example, we can do better!
good point. I’ve created a couple more crossposts
If this is supposed to be about the EU, why is the post in french?
Only a small fraction of the EU speaks that.
If you click the link, the site will automatically be translated into your language. But since the organisers are French, it will preview in French.
I agree, that seems like an oversight
Doesn’t translate anything for me
That’s true for basically any European language though, right?
And English is no longer the obvious lingua franca since the UK left
I think English is still the most obvious choice as most people speak it as a second language. In fact I would want that EU wide kids learn English from grade 1 on and ideally we’d be all bilingual in a couple decades.
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The correct translation should be “Décapiter les riches” if it was french Citizens’ initiative. /s
English, so can’t sign :( rooting for you all over the channel!
Same, hope it catches on! Wish I could add my signature
So you have to find something else to do with your rich then.
I vote for eating them
Are you sure? I mean with what they say about British cuisine
Am improvement then?
I think I’ve already signed this at some point last year or is this a new attempt?
Done
Same
I convinced my parents to sign it
I only do this as I like to learn new things myself and appreciate if people correct me.
The title is wrong. It should be “A European…” rather than “An European…”.
The way you can decide which one to use is by looking at the proceeding words first syllable sound. If it has a vowel sound you use an if it doesn’t, then you use a. It’s important to note it’s vowel sound and not just a vowel.
Examples:
- A teacher
- An apple
- A car
- An hour (note it starts with a vowel sound, but not a vowel)
- A European
- An excellent teacher
Thank you for the correction. I wasn’t sure (but also to lazy to check)
I’ve edited the title
No problem. Thank you for being receptive to my comment.
Sometimes people get mad, and I don’t get why as I love to learn new things and it may help other people who may be non-native speakers to learn the quirks of English.
Sorry, native speaker and language teacher here and I disagree. This is dialect dependent, but in my dialect at least, it’s the glottal stop at the beginning of a vowel sound that triggers it. Saying “an European” for me is like saying “an yellow.”
I’m confused as you say you don’t agree, but also using an European doesn’t sound right, which is right as it should be a European as European starts with a yoo sound rather than a vowel sound.
It would be a yellow as yellow also starts with a consonant sound.
That’s because I read your comment wrong 😅
No harm no foul. 😊
Sadly i’m deaf, so i can’t use sound to correct myself 🥹😭
I sh4uld meet an english deaf and usk them how do they manage those grammar rule. Their answer will be pretty fun :3
Here are some possible reasons for people getting mad if you’re really wondering why it happens:
- unsolicited advice can make people feel stupid (you love to learn, not everyone does)
- comments like yours can be used as a way of making fun of OP to disregard their point without actually interacting with it
- being corrected on a slip up and not something you sincerely don’t know can be annoying (either towards the person correcting you or towards yourself for “not knowing something this simple”)
- I don’t know about others but my school life never taught me how to deal with criticism, if you made a mistake you didn’t study properly and should go back to doing that instead of being explained what went wrong and why (this one might sound a worse than it really was but you get the point)
I’m not saying you did any of those things and I’m right there with you on learning but the knee-jerk reactions often do have a reason behind them. There’s also the whole issue with how polarized social media is these days and the willingness to listen or admit to a mistake can be a difficult thing to stomach (“it’s a sign of weakness”).
I hope that helps!
Thanks for this. It really does help to understand the reasons.
I would say that I always try to preface my unsolicited advice to try and convey that I am not shitting on people or being condescending, as I did here. I do this so people can feel comfortable that I’m doing it to be nice and without any malice at all. I know you said I didn’t do any of these things, I just wanted to explain my thought process.
I get it. At the end of the day web is a vast space and people will have different experience functioning here, all we can do is try to convince others we’re genuine and do our thing. I’m just happy whenever a positive interactions like your and OP’s happen.
These kinds of things should be handled on a national rather than an EU level. I don’t like the idea of giving the EU further taxation rights - that is not its purpose.
On the contrary, I feel as though a tax like that can only be done at EU level rather than a national level if it wants to have any efficiancy. The ultra-rich are not bound by the same rules of territoriality as the rest of us, and would have no problem moving to another country in the EU if a local tax displeases them.
In fact, this has been a key argument put forward by right-wing politicians against high-wealth tax on a national level for quite some time, that they would flee the country the first chance they get. But by registering it at the EU level, the million/billionaires won’t have anywhere to run if they still want to enjoy the benefits of being in the EU :)
It can still be achieved via international agreement, the EU can serve its intended purpose by fostering such an agreement, and then codifying it later.
My key issue with it is the slow removal of national sovereignty and the movenent of decisionmaking further away from the voter. This is the exact kind of thing that has led to the EU repeatedly trying to force through impopular proposals that infringe on the rights and privacy of citizens such as chat control.
The EU needs to focus on its roots as a common market and united front for foreign policy, not on becoming an abomination of bureaucracy.
Taxes are also a market. Billionaires shop for the country that will tax them less.
An EU-wide tax scheme is acting like a single market.
