European Union?“The European Citizens’ Initiative is a unique way for you to help shape the EU by calling on the European Commission to propose new laws. If an initiative has reached 1 million valid signatures, the Commission will decide on what action to take.”
I have just signed several initiatives … I recommend subscribing to the newsletter.
That is very useful and it does work. 
That’s how people got the “stop killing games” initiative to be discussed.
Huh? o.o
I thought all EU countries already print the words “European Union” on the cover of the passports they issue? And with free movement of goods and people, all passports issued by any EU country should be valid across the EU like their domestic ones…
So what is that new passport actually trying to achieve?
Uhm, @_KoBa, I’m not sure what you’re referring to … in case it was about the title of this thread, I have slightly changed it to make clear that the question is not about “EU” meaning ”European Union” but whether the reader is a citizen of the EU.
I mean like, aren’t all EU countries already printing the words “european union” on their passports?
Finnish passport has those words in both domestic languages (finnish and swedish) so i thought the other EU countries have that too
So what i’m saying is that i don’t understand what that initative is for… Is it just a cosmetic change to make the passports blue with the EU logo on them?
Ah yeah that one! Wasnt that the one in the original post?
Oh … no, it was simply a link to that Web page about the “European Citizens’ Initiative”, meant to invite EU citizens to either propose their own initiatives or to check out and to sign initiatives if they find your approval in order to participate actively in EU politics.
I think it’s meant for EU citizens that care more about being EU citizens than being citizen of a particular member state.
I wouldn’t even say “more”, it’s just that I assume that a responsible citizen would want to participate in shaping the future of the EU as well as the future of their individual country.
I was just talking about the STAR-PASS initiative.
OIC … and understand 
I love your posts but do you really need to shorten I see (4 letters)?
Oh… I’m honoured, thank you 
And, BTW (by the way), I appreciate your posts also (most of them at least!) 
Mh… it’s not that I’d need it but rather a habit I’ve acquired through decades of communicating with speakers of English on the ’net, first in Newsgroups, then Mailing Lists, and later the World Wide Web … acronyms like AFAIK, LOL, ROTFL, LMAO, IIRC, TBH, AFK, WTH, etc.
And with “OIC”, well, it’s more than four letters actually: “Oh, I see” (that’s nine hits on the keyboard! (including comma and spaces, excluding the quotation marks)) but yes, ofc (of course) I could write it out, but even though I am a relatively fast typer (on a real desktop keyboard, that is!), I still prefer to write “economically”.
But, TBH, I’m in a predicament now (is that the correct term? “in a fix, in a scrape, in a pretty pickle”?) because …
But usually, in international forums and mailing lists people know these acronyms, after all I was taught by them (I’m not a native speaker of English either, as you will probably know).
So … what now … I guess I’ll just keep on keepin’ on, and if someone doesn’t understand and asks, I will, of course, explain, because that’s how I learned.
Yeah I learned a lot of them, but I didn’t read that OIC before you wrote it and I still find it a bit exaggerated to my taste 
Ok, nvm
