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• Exclusive power to approve the European
Citizens’ Initiative.
• Motion of no confidence.
• Ratification of modifications to the
Constitution (or the Treaties) of the EU.
• Authorization to call a European referendum.
• Legislative capacity in all spheres, with-
out exceptions.
• Ratification of the President of the
European Council.
• Decision about its own location (which
we hope would be on a single site).
• Deliberation and adoption of decisions in
European format.
The European Commission
9. Reform the structure of the European
Commission, so that:
• The maximum number of members is
equivalent to two-thirds of the member
states, reducing the role of national gov-
ernments in the process of proposing
commissioners.
• There is gender parity.
• The President is chosen from among the
members of the European Parliament,
having stood for election as a candidate
on a national or transnational list.
The ECB
10.Expand the functions of the European Central
Bank so that it can intervene without restric-
tions both in the management of the euro
and in economic governance in general, so
that its three essential functions would be: to
guarantee financial and monetary stability, to
prevent asset inflation, and to promote
growth and employment. Its President and
the members of its Board of Directors should
be ratified by the European Parliament.
11.Create a European Credit Risk Rating Agency.
Participatory democracy
12.Within the Constitution (or in the Treaties),
strengthen the role of organized, European
civil society, introducing the concept of par-
ticipatory democracy and improving the op-
eration of the current European Citizens’
Initiative, in particular by removing the filter-
ing role currently played by the Commission.
Decision-making procedures
13.Establish the obligation to adopt European
legislation, without exceptions, through the
joint legislative procedure (of the European
Parliament and the Council) and by double
majority.
14.Simplify the current definition of double ma-
jority, both in terms of percentages and
forms.
15.Restrict the use of unanimity in the Council
of Ministers and the European Council to the
admission of new member states.
16.Make it compulsory for the European
Commission to present an Annual Political
Programme for the EU to the European
Parliament and the Council for debate.
Treaty reform
17.Establish that reform of the Constitution (or
of the Treaties) will be by qualified majority,
not unanimous.