In 2015 it was announced that GeenStijl and the Burgercomité-EU started a petition called ''GeenPeil'' to ask a referendum for the [[Netherlands]] about the Association treaty between the [[European Union]] and [[Ukraine]] (see also [[Crisis in Ukraine]]) on 6 April 2016, was finally granted the request after the legal earned 300,000 signs. The result of this referendum was 61,1% against the treaty of the total vote. | In 2015 it was announced that GeenStijl and the Burgercomité-EU started a petition called ''GeenPeil'' to ask a referendum for the [[Netherlands]] about the Association treaty between the [[European Union]] and [[Ukraine]] (see also [[Crisis in Ukraine]]) on 6 April 2016, was finally granted the request after the legal earned 300,000 signs. The result of this referendum was 61,1% against the treaty of the total vote. |