In the Netherlands, Eurosceptics gathered votes for a referendum against the EU's association with Ukraine
The Netherlands has collected the required number of signatures to hold a consultative referendum on ratification of the Association Agreement with Ukraine.
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About it stated the initiative group GeenPeil on its Twitter page.
“Official final table of digital signatures: +451663,” the message says.
As you know, initiative groups needed to collect 300 thousand votes as of Monday, September 28, 17.00 (local time), in order for the country's government to be obliged to hold a consultative referendum.
At the same time, the Dutch Electoral Council will only announce a referendum when the validity of the submitted signatures has been confirmed.
As EUobserver writes, The signatures were collected thanks to an intense online campaign by the satirical blog GeenStijl, the citizens' group Burgercomite EU (“EU Citizens' Committee”), and the Eurosceptic think tank Forum for Democracy.
“There is widespread dissatisfaction with the way the European project is moving,” said Thierry Badet, one of the initiators of the campaign. in a comment to the local newspaper nrc.next.
“We are witnessing a new democratic revolution here,” he added.
It is worth notice, that even if referendum will is organized и most of citizens will vote против ratification document, won't have mandatory character. The country's authorities can leave his the decision stands.
At the same time в Ministry of Foreign Affairs country noted that в case, if referendum really takes place, it will stop ratification Agreement about the association Holland. И all country EC have will с by that to agree.
Как is known, Parliament Netherlands completed the Procedure ratification Agreement about the association между Ukraine and the EU 7 of July.
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