{"id":37665,"date":"2026-03-11T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/37665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:32:32","slug":"car-free-and-advertising-free-referendums-need-more-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/37665\/","title":{"rendered":"Car-free and advertising-free referendums need more signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/imago794097367-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-178967\"  \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/imago794097367-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178967\"  \/>IMAGO \/\u00a0Berlinfoto<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 10<\/p>\n<p>Two Berlin referendums launched on January 9, 2026:\u00a0Berlin autofrei\u00a0(car-free Berlin) and\u00a0Volksbegehren Berlin werbefrei\u00a0(advertising-free Berlin). The first would mean a car-free city centre and the second would mean a city with no outdoor digital advertising \u2013 two concepts that seem like they would be wildly popular. Yet halfway through their appeals, both referendums have only collected a fraction of the required signatures.<\/p>\n<p>In order for the initiatives to lead to a referendum, they must collect signatures from at least seven percent of Berlin\u2019s eligible voters by May 8. That is about 174,000 people. So far, the car-free Berlin initiative has submitted\u00a020,800 signatures to the state election office and the advertising-free initiative has submitted 5,675.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the initiatives do get enough signatures to lead to a referendum, new laws would be put into force if a majority of voters and at least a quarter of all eligible voters agree. The date for the referendums would be September 20, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to add your signature, find out more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autofreiberlin.de\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.autofreiberlin.de<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlin-werbefrei.de\" type=\"link\" id=\"www.berlin-werbefrei.de\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.berlin-werbefrei.de<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGO \/\u00a0Berlinfoto Tuesday, March 10 Two Berlin referendums launched on January 9, 2026:\u00a0Berlin autofrei\u00a0(car-free Berlin) and\u00a0Volksbegehren Berlin werbefrei\u00a0(advertising-free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,21605,190,38,21606,21607],"class_list":{"0":"post-37665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-berlin-autofrei","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-referendums","13":"tag-volksbegehren-berlin-werbefrei"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116210089626635009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}