Minority SafePack

The authors (who include Hunor Kelemen, Anke Spoorendonk, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Luis Durnwalder and Valentin Inzko) have appealed the refusal in court, where they were joined by Hungary and the Commission - by Slovakia and Romania.

[9] As of 4 April 2018, the initiative has been supported online by 771,089 EU citizens (the unionwide threshold is 1,000,000).

The necessary statewide threshold has been achieved by online signatures in nine member states (in Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, Denmark, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, and Slovenia), with seven having been needed.

The threshold was reached in eleven countries, namely Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, Denmark, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Italy.

[14] However no new legal acts have been proposed, the Commission refers to already existing policies that have been amended and will further support the goals of the initiative.