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In a lengthy analytical-explanatory communication, the European Commission announced that it was essentially rejecting the minority protection initiative Minority Safepack.
In short, they say that they have no jurisdiction in the field of minority protection from the beginning, because the adoption of such legislation is a matter for the Member States and not for the Commission. On the other hand, in response to the original proposal, it is explained that since the original Minority SafePack was launched in 2013, they believe that so many EU laws, projects, institutions and support programs have been adopted on this issue that the situation legal is simply different from 13. and there is no need for legislation now, that is, new rules for the protection of minorities.
Minority SafePack was launched eight years ago by an organization called the European Union of Nationalities (FUEN) as a “European Citizens Initiative”. (The president of FUEN, Vincze Loránt, a civil MEP from DAHR.)
This institution means that if at least one million signatures are collected from citizens of at least seven Member States on a matter of pan-European importance, the organizers can ask the Commission to initiate EU-level legislation on the subject. It is important that this does not force the Commission to legislate, only to deal with the matter and consider whether to legislate on the matter.
By the way, Safepack was the fifth civic initiative that managed to collect the required number of signatures. It was not launched easily, as the Commission had already refused to allow it to do so on this issue, claiming even then that it had no competence in this area. At the time the organizers sued so that, after their victory in the courtroom, the actual signature collection could finally begin in 2017, 4 years after the start.
In this case, the organizers did not limit themselves to handing over the signatures collected at the end, but also drafted a bill prepared for the Commission itself. Otherwise, this is not a required element of the process.
This proposal was also addressed by the EP in December 2020, when a non-binding recommendation to the Commission was voted by a large majority, recommending the adoption of the FUEN proposal.
In its response, the Commission writes extensively on the importance and importance of ensuring Europe’s diversity and guaranteeing the cultural, linguistic and other rights of national minorities. But at the same time, two branches refuse to initiate new legislation on the subject.
On the one hand, due to the fact that, according to their legal interpretation, they could not do so regardless of their intention, since the legislation on this matter falls within the competence of the Member States.
But the ad doesn’t stop there. It goes through the basic points of the text of the FUEN bill, reaching the same conclusion on all issues: since 2017, they believe that so many scholarships, programs, projects have been created in the field of cultural rights of minorities and women. European institutions have become obsolete. therefore, according to the committee, there is no need for legislation in any of the subareas.
Anyone interested in the details of the reason for rejection can read the Commission’s full notice in English here. Our Commission source has confirmed that the publication of this document also marks the end of the initiative.
And anyone interested in the bill now rejected by the organizers can read a very detailed analysis of it in this immediate article.
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