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WELCOME to the homepage of JEF's EP elections campaign 2009
Europe is in the middle of big
crises. With threats and challenges facing us in the field of economy,
finances, environment and society, nations concentrate on themselves. We risk
having 27 national elections instead of one truly European election. Paradoxically,
while most of these challenges can only be solved on the European level, people
lose their faith in Europe. The Constitutional Treaties and the Lisbon Treaty
have failed in referenda in EU member states and nationalist anti-European
parties have risen.
It's
TIME for CHANGE... It's TIME for EUROPE! We use the framework of
the European elections to point out with our campaign that it is possible to
change things in Europe, that it is time to take action together! The EU needs to be able to speak and to act as a real Union. We want to
raise awareness about the upcoming elections to the European Parliament, to
provoke discussions on the European level and to make the EU more democratic. Europe needs faces and the
people need to have influence - why do the parliamentary elections have no
effect on the composition of the European Commission? Why do we have to vote
for national parties in the European elections?
The campaign is centred around three main demands: a citizen's Europe, a greener Europe and a global Europe. You can see the concrete demands concerning a European Civilian Service, a European Energy and Environmental Agency, European Blue Helmets and a lot more in our Manifesto .
We need a more democratic, a more federal Europe in which the European people decide. Join our causes to promote these aims on this page and see our Manifesto for the European Parliament elections 2009.
The campaign was launched on 12/12/2008 at five to 12 simultaneously in more than 80 cities across Europe - to symbolize that it's time for change! The second of the three pan-European actions taking place in the framework of our campaign was the Belarus Action on 18 March 2009. Over 110 cities across Europe and worldwide took the streets against Lukashenko's unjust Belarus dictatorship, demanding a European Foreign Policy. Activists across the continent gagged statues - symbolically preventing them from speaking freely - much like the current situation for many Belarusian citizens and leaders of democracy and oppositions movements.
The third pan-European campaign action took place on 25 May, only a
week before the elections. All over Europe, alarm clocks were ringing to make noise for a more democratic and federal Europe, noise for our manifesto and noise to convince people to go and vote.
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