Impressive how much signatures were collected in the last few days, but why didn’t they start sooner to call for signings for this?
They seem to be a french intiative and struggled to get attention in other parts of the EU. It took until last week for some bigger non-french online voices to come onboard and push the petition
It really is a challenge to get into the different public (media) spaces of the various EU member communities
i apparently signed it last year, so it’s been on socials before.
I guess the closing deadline also gives it a sense of urgency and in nonfederated communities it could be that it becomes trending because so many people talk about it at the same time.
Let’s goooo! This has gotten ~400.000 signatures just during lst 4 or 5 days.
Less than 70k to go now. We can get this over the finish line!
Site won’t load.
The EU official site hopefully does: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
Heavy traffic due to it being massively shared online the right now, please leave a tab open and try again later the next 24h!
They’ve did it!
Yeah, 1,097,145 signatures. Well done.
Seems to be gaining traction on Mastodon as well, this is under a post to remind people of the deadline:
If there really are 10-20k signatures added per hour we will reach it today :))
