European elections

All in all, the vast majority of pre-election posturing and propaganda is utterly meaningless. All that is really left for us is to sit back and enjoy the show.

Saying the European elections are usually an anticlimax overstates the degree of excitement they generate in the first place. Notoriously, the turnout in the elections has gone down every time since they first took place in 1979. In 2014 the official slogan of the elections was ‘This time it’s different’. It wasn’t: turnout went down […]

Interview by Moritz Ablinger originally published in Mosaik Blog. Mosaik: The KPÖ has never won a mandate in the European Parliament; in 2014 the party received 2.1 percent of the vote. What do you hope to achieve in this election? Katerina Anastasiou: Our goal is to enter the European Parliament. We consider ourselves part of […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published in Italian in Linkiesta. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. Dresden is a clean and tidy city, very silent. It’s almost unimaginable that here, in February 1945, the Allies’ bombs were falling in tonnes, killing tens […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published here. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. It is a peaceful Tuesday night when we arrive in Dresden, in the North-East of Germany. It is just the second day of the route; the Central […]

Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union and a demand to recognize 20 European public goods that would get us there. Charta 2020 is promoted by Agora Europe and has been collectively written by several dozen international activists and academics. It outlines the conditions for European integration across 20 public goods that we Europeans should endorse to make Europe […]

From 23 to 26 May 2019, European citizens are called to vote for the next European Parliament. But democracy and participation are not only about casting the ballot. While every passing year seemed to show a stronger far-right movement which is gaining space and growing in numbers, we are also seeing a broad number of […]

On the year of the European Parliament elections, five groups of young activists are travelling throughout fifteen European countries on board of five caravans reaching out to European citizens at their sites of struggle and resistance. Four of the caravans will travel before the elections, while the fifth one will depart after the summer. Our […]

European Alternatives, Krytyka Polityczna and partners are looking for motivated people to join the team of the Transeuropa Caravans that together will be reaching 15 European countries in Spring and Autumn 2019. Each Caravan will be composed of a group of skilful people: Coordinator, Logistics officer, Communication officer, and Facilitator/performer who will be recruited with […]