The decision was taken in Navracsics’s absence. In his letter dated from the previous day, Navracsics said he objected to adoption of the matter onto the agenda of a session from which he would be absent.

He had informed the commission in advance about his diary, which included official commission business elsewhere, he noted, adding this deprived him of the opportunity to put his objections forward and was an abuse of the “collegiality principle”.

Navracsics said in the letter that adoption of the initiative was not a technical but a political issue, and “its implications are much broader than the actual initiative at stake”. He said arguments in favour of the registration were “highly questionable” and that “opening a citizens’ initiative to inter-institutional questions may have very serious negative repercussions.”

He asked the College not to take a decision to register the proposed initiative at its November 24 meeting.

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