{"id":159694,"date":"2025-08-08T05:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/what-europeans-ask-of-the-eu-the-strangest-citizens-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:49:15","slug":"what-europeans-ask-of-the-eu-the-strangest-citizens-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/what-europeans-ask-of-the-eu-the-strangest-citizens-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"What Europeans ask of the EU: The Strangest Citizens\u2019 Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2012, ECIs have ranged from requests for a complete ban on animal farming to a pitch for the European anthem to be sung in Esperanto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/08\/08\/what-europeans-ask-of-the-eu-the-strangest-citizens-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2012, ECIs have ranged from requests for a complete ban on animal farming to a pitch for the European anthem to be sung in Esperanto. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":159695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}