| Country | Statements of support | Threshold | Percentage | Signatures required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 10162 | 13395 | 75.86% | 3233 |
| Belgium | 13911 | 14805 | 93.96% | 894 |
| Bulgaria | 4597 | 11985 | 38.36% | 7388 |
| Croatia | 4163 | 8460 | 49.21% | 4297 |
| Cyprus | 565 | 4230 | 13.36% | 3665 |
| Czechia | 7421 | 14805 | 50.12% | 7384 |
| Denmark | 12032 | 9870 | 121.90% | 0 |
| Estonia | 3035 | 4935 | 61.50% | 1900 |
| Finland | 15319 | 9870 | 155.21% | 0 |
| France | 49153 | 55695 | 88.25% | 6542 |
| Germany | 98063 | 67680 | 144.89% | 0 |
| Greece | 5018 | 14805 | 33.89% | 9787 |
| Hungary | 9902 | 14805 | 66.88% | 4903 |
| Ireland | 10353 | 9165 | 112.96% | 0 |
| Italy | 24712 | 53580 | 46.12% | 28868 |
| Latvia | 2679 | 5640 | 47.50% | 2961 |
| Lithuania | 5123 | 7755 | 66.06% | 2632 |
| Luxembourg | 946 | 4230 | 22.36% | 3284 |
| Malta | 533 | 4230 | 12.60% | 3697 |
| Netherlands | 26374 | 20445 | 129.00% | 0 |
| Poland | 53599 | 36660 | 146.21% | 0 |
| Portugal | 8402 | 14805 | 56.75% | 6403 |
| Romania | 12377 | 23265 | 53.20% | 10888 |
| Slovakia | 4987 | 9870 | 50.53% | 4883 |
| Slovenia | 2473 | 5640 | 43.85% | 3167 |
| Spain | 36391 | 41595 | 87.49% | 5204 |
| Sweden | 19849 | 14805 | 134.07% | 0 |
Just under 3000-4000 people are required per country in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta and Luxembourg. Come on now… that’s a small town and in some places even just a village. Are there really that few gamers in those countries?
Those thresholds are irrelevant because they’ve been crossed in seven countries already, the important bit is getting another 560k votes from anywhere (in the EU).
The actual hurdle is those 1m votes, any initiative that is not completely lopsided will take the per-country hurdles with ease, as you can tell by this initiative having achieved that while not yet having half of the votes it needs. In fact taking all the thresholds together you wouldn’t reach 1m votes but ~0.5m, that is by design.
That’s not to say that it’d be a bad idea to do pushes in certain countries, particularly large ones which are less hooked into English media than the usual suspects. By population: France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Belgium is covered by Netherlands+France, Czechia, Portugal, Greece, that’s all >=10m member states lagging behind. No point in going after Sweden or the Netherlands people there are already in the loop, and Poland seems to have rallied itself.
Yeah, nevermind then. Let’s do nothing. Might as well just twiddle our thumbs and hope the large countries find another 500k people to sign the initiative. The small countries can be ignored 🤷♂
that’s a small town
Luxembourg is kind of a small town tho 🤣
Okay, I’ll see myself out 😬
My good Sir do you know what is Malta?
Apparently an island of useless chuds who can’t sign a petition.
And they ruined my friend’s stomach! He could eat a lot before his vacation there.
seven countries and one million total votes. it’s not even close on the second one, needs like 550k more.
Sure, but look at what’s going on in Lithuania. They can’t get 2k people to sign the petition? Wth? Are there no Lithuanian gamers?
Lithuanian here who signed the petition like a year or so ago.
There’s a decent chunk of Lithuanian gamers, but social medias and spaces that they inhabit are primarily in Lithuanian language such as Facebook, Lithuanian gaming groups on Discord/TikTok and things like that. Rarely there are some odd Lithuanians like me who venture out to the English speaking web to sites such as Reddit, but there’s no guarantee the initiative will be found or if the person will care enough to sign it.
Granted, take what I say with a spoonful of salt as I don’t actively seek out or look for Lithuanian digital spaces at all, this is based on my experience with friends and acquaintances.
If you could share the initiative in the lithuanian spaces, that’d be great. Here it is in Lithuanian
I wonder if it’s a language issue? Lithuanian is only really spoken in Lithuania, which is quite a small country, and most Lithuanians also don’t speak another EU language (the most common second language by a wide margin is Russian). It might be that nobody has made a successful effort to publicise the campaign in a language that most Lithuanians know. The disclaimer here is that I don’t speak Lithuanian and cannot check
too few gamers that care or know about this.
Or have fallen for misinfo about it
Pirate Software - that cunt
For Luxembourg almost 80% are missing. Let’s try to motivate bigger countries that are close to the threshold.
Looking at you France and Spain, just a little more! Belgium, you are doing great, just a 1000 more please.
How does it work? Does every country need to pass the threshold? Only a certain amount of countries?
7 countries and 1 million total signatures
Thank you!
