’One of us’ ECI in validation phase

After the 'Right to water' campaign, the 'One of us' petition is the second European citizens' initiative (ECI) to have crossed the finish line (which involves collecting one million signatures from seven member states and having them validated by national authorities). On 28 February, organisers handed in 1,742,156 signatures to the European Commission. This ECI calls for the Horizon 2020 programme to not finance research activities involving the use of human embryonic stem cells and for the financial instrument for…