* Carsten Agger (agger@c.dk) [18.04.08 12:19]:
So, how can I sign or recommend the petition without fundamentally recognizing the Parliament, when actually I don't? This might actually limit the petition's potential appeal in many countries, at least in "Euro-sceptical" quarters (which in Denmark tend to be the left, and some nationalists - the pattern might be different in other countries).
By the normative power of the factual: there *is* a parliament, which *decides* on such matters, and such will be equal to any national law within the EU.
With the attitude "I don't like them, so I won't talk to them" you cannot change anything. The Parliament *has* power over you, and if you refuse to use *your* influence on the parliament, then don't come crying if they did something you do not like: you did not tell them.
BTW: a petition is nothing *from* the parliament, it is a demand from the people *to* the parliament to act in a certain way or at least debate over that topic.
br Carsten
I don't like the EU neither, but the problem is not what the parliament decides(we could influence that by voting), the problem is what it is *not* allowed to decide.
Sebastian