Understanding the effects of the coronavirus crisis on the implementation of the ECI and its use by European citizens in the forthcoming period is critical for the future of participatory democracy at the EU level and the citizen-centric recovery of the European Union as a political system. The pandemic and the related measures have not only temporarily suspended the freedom of movement in the EU but also unleashed uncertainty related to the application of ECI rules to the ongoing initiatives. The slow and nonlinear return to normalcy in the period after the lockdown, therefore, necessitates that we take stock of the short-term and long-term implications the crisis will have on the ECI by discussing, inter alia:
- changes in the preparatory work of the committee;
- changes for the signature collection phase;
- changes in the kind of signature collection;
- changes in trends of topics to be addressed by ECIs;
- other;
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