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Imagine, Demand, Enact: 2014/2015 Report Imagine, Demand, Enact: 2014/2015 Report Content IMAGINE, DEMAND, ENACT: 2014/2015 REPORT IMAGINE, DEMAND, ENACT: 2014/2015 REPORT CONTENT 04 06 22 24 26 Welcome Timeline Citizen Rights TRANSEUROPA Festival: TRANSEUROPA Festival 2015: Creating a common space for Beyond fragments European alternatives 2014/2015 WORK PROGRAMME 10 12 14 28 30 CITIES OF ACTIVITIES European Initiative Citizens Manifesto Transnational Dialogues TalkReal: 2014/2015 on Media Pluralism: Innovating with multimedia Fighting for a free press formats OUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND STRATEGY 16 18 20 34 38 42 Towards the 2014 elections: Other activities around the #Fixeurope: Our achievements Our strategy for 2016 Financials Transeuropa Caravans 2014 European parliamentary Campus and conference and strategy elections 44 Our governance 2 3 and in the political institutions. Simultaneously highly local and transnational, specific and general, European Alternatives attempts to create a movement of thought, of proposals, of people and of organisations working together to create an alternative Europe. We aim to pull together in the network of European Alternatives a civil society and citizenry that is too often divided geographically, and divided between thematic concerns, target groups or ways of acting. WELCOME We sum up this approach in two slogans: The years 2014 and 2015 have made it clearer than ever that there is an open battle for the meaning and future of ‘Europe’: Democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state is the name of this continent to be understood as racist, describes the values and ideals we work towards, the mission of exclusionary, authoritarian and self-interested, or is it to be the movement. understood as open, diverse, democratic, curious, showing solidarity and promoting equality? Imagine, Demand, Enact encapsulates the different dimensions we work in, stimulating a new Europe to be created in the way The first vision of Europe has been embodied in the figure and we understand the world, what we call for from institutions and appeal of Victor Orban and the rise of the far-right wing in the society, and the way we act. 2014 European elections; in Europe’s failure to humanely receive migrants fleeing persecution, war or poverty; in Europe’s failure In this biannual report you can read about the myriad projects, to turn the page of austerity and give a fair deal to the Greek programme and campaigns we have led with hundreds of and European population, in Europe’s failure to live-up to its partners and thousands of participants and volunteers. You can responsibilities to the East and South. also read about how we measure our progress as we continue to build this young organisation, and what strategic objectives The second vision of Europe has been present on the we set for the coming years. euromaidan in Kiev; in initiatives for a renewed European democracy; in a thousand acts of solidarity shown by citizens in welcoming migrants in spite of their governments; in protests against evictions and for affordable housing; in citizens projects and initiatives to call for meaningful action on climate change and in hundreds of other struggles. The racist and closed understanding of Europe has terrifying precedents, and we see a kind of paralysis of the political establishment faced with it. European Alternatives has from its creation acted dynamically in every way it can to promote an open, diverse, democratic, equal vision of Europe’s future. These two years have shown what we are up against and how politics- as-usual is not an effective option. European Alternatives is unique in its approach to this situation. We embody an ideal of Europe in its totality and complexity and we work both at the grassroots throughout the continent 4 5 TIMELINE 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 August 15, 2006 An idea forms March 6, 2008 February 10, 2010 October 4/27, 2013 Building on success, EA opens Paris office September 2012 TRANSEUROPA second Festival of Recipient of the Youth Festival 2013 Europe opens Democracy Prize from the Federal Agency for Civic Education in May 5, 2011 — May Germany. January 1, 2014 16, 2011 EA opens Berlin office TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011 January 12, 2007 April 29, 2008 April 24 / May 10, October 21/ 24, 2014 EA’s first home Charlemagne 2010 FixEurope Campus Foundation and EP A multi-city festival prize March 15, 2009 December 7, 2011 December 3, 2013 October 1/ 5, 2015 Third London Festival EESC prize winners Citizens Manifesto TRANSEUROPA of Europe launched Festival 2015 March 19/25, 2007 September 25/26, Festival of Europe 2010 launches in London Transeuropa Network comes to life March 15/16, 2008 August 1, 2009 October 7, 2010 May 9/20, 2012 April 24 / May 4, Movements combine EA goes to China Start of media TRANSEUROPA 2014 freedom campaign Festival 2012 Transeuropa European Feminist Caravans Summit and ‘How to Make Europe Dream’ Cultural Congress. 6 7 2014/2015 WORK PROGRAMME Stockholm CITIES OF ACTIVITIES 2014/2015 Our offices Edinburgh Cities where active Birmingham Amsterdam Cardiff The Hague Berlin Warsaw Kiev London Lublin Brussels Prague Paris Vienna Bratislava Budapest Cluj-Napoca Lyon Venice Belgrade Bologna Sarajevo Marseille Sofia Barcelona Rome Madrid Lisbon Valencia Athens 10 Lampedusa 11 The campaign ran until August 2014 and collected in excess of 200,000 signatures across the continent, leveraging hundreds of press mentions and thousands of social media interactions. EUROPEAN INITIATIVE As an immediate result of this mobilisation, EA and the EIMP ON MEDIA PLURALISM: established themselves as a credible and representative interlocutor on media freedom and pluralism at the EU level. In FIGHTING FOR A FREE PRESS December 2014 we established an international NGO in Brussels - the European Media Initiative - to continue the work of the www.mediainitiative.eu campaign and to continue applying pressure on European institutions for better regulation and better media, beginning Since 2010, EA has promoted the safeguarding of free, with the review of the Audiovisual Services Directive in late 2015. independent and pluralistic information by European institutions. In 2014 we established the European Initiative for Media Pluralism with the immediate goal of running a “I am signing the Citizens European Citizens Initiative (ECI) campaign demanding the Initiative for Media Pluralism implementation of an EU Directive on media pluralism. since I am convinced that it is the duty of the EU to We established and coordinated coalitions in the UK, Germany, guarantee this right, set Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Belgium, as well forth by the Charter of coordinating individual activists across Europe. The coalition Fundamental Rights of the EU, included over 100 organisations ranging from established trade to all European citizens.” unions and professional bodies like Germany’s Ver.di and Italy’s Martin Schulz, President of CGIL, to grassroots initiatives, NGOs and alternative media. We the European Parliament rallied over 60 members of the European Parliament to support stronger EU actions on media freedom and pluralism. Over the “I’m supporting the European course of the year we organised dozens of events, flash-mobs, Media Initiative because demonstrations and online and offline actions all across the EU pluralism is still under attack to spread awareness among a vast and diverse public about the in many parts of the European importance of a free media for a free society. Union. Media conglomerates threaten the diversity of We campaigned on European issues - better regulation for opinions, of media, and even better media - as well as localised struggles. Including a strong of cultures. ” focus on fighting the retrenchment of liberties such as media Ska Keller, MEP freedom in Hungary, and strong on-the-ground action in Bulgaria and Italy targeting the overlap between media, politics and business. “I support the European Media Initiative because I believe journalism is key for our democracy” Judith Sargentini, MEP 12 13 CITIZENS MANIFESTO www.citizenspact.eu Through a three-year bottom-up participatory project involving thousands of Europeans, the Citizens Manifesto collected and articulated concrete transnational policy proposals on work, welfare, financial reform, legality, democracy, media pluralism, commons, the environment, migration, women’s rights and gender equality, LGBT rights and Roma rights. Through the organisation of over 100 citizens’ panels in 18 European countries, we have encountered large groups of people, including migrants, Roma people, LGBT people, unemployed or precarious young people and many EU citizens living in states they are not citizens of. ‘European citizenship, culture, education and the future of Their concerns and proposals have been gathered in Europe’s youth are very important to citizens throughout the the Manifesto and elaborated into concrete and legally Union, as our actions have shown and the Parliament has now applicable policy proposals by thematic groups of experts and acknowledged. We hope and demand that the new Commission activists. The Manifesto was published in 2013 and presented will mark a break with the previous administrations and take in the European Parliament in January 2014. The full 100-page bold decisions to promote these areas.’ document is available online: 6/10/2014 http://citizenspact.eu/citizens-manifesto/ VICTORY! EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BLOCKS TIBOR NAVRACSICS The idea of a pan-European dialogue of citizens and the breadth of concrete policy proposals that emerged from this process provided the basis for our work around the elections for the European Parliament in May 2014. 14 15 TOWARDS THE 2014 ELECTIONS: TRANSEUROPA CARAVANS and its policy proposals, discussing and finding concrete 30 activists. 6 caravans. ways of putting proposals into action. Along the route we 12,000km. 100+ projects. 18 countries. 11 days. engaged Members of Parliament and candidates to bridge 1 mission: connect local, alternative voices across Europe. the connection to decision makers and those closer to policy- making in Brussels. www.citizenspact.eu What we saw along the journey was both astonishing and well- known.
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