Rejected petition Democratic mandate for future European Union treaties

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Prior to the UK acceding to any new European Union treaty, a national referendum shall be held to allow the electorate the opportunity to accept or reject that Treaty.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

This is already the case under the recent European Union Act 2011

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 27 October 2011
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