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For now, we want to raise awareness of the blatant inequalities and outdated electoral rules for the EU elections. Phase 2 will be the start of our grassroots campaign! Europeans will raise their voice demanding Members of the European Parliament to vote and support truly European elections. Here, we will require your energy and creativity! Phase 3 will build on Phase 2’s momentum and push the campaign across all of Europe’s capitals! More details to when all these exciting steps start and what you can do to support us will follow soon! For now, sign up to our updates and follow us on our social media channels! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1617874005228-SQZJQLJIUO0NSW8DYP4H/mika-baumeister-M4esU-pl6Y4-unsplash.jpg Home - soft launch - Vote European! As a European citizen you currently do not have a European vote! You can only vote for your national politicians to go to the European Parliament. 27 national rules determine whom you can vote for and how your vote translates into political action. Many Europeans want to see positive change in the way that we elect our representation in Brussels. Many feel like they aren’t represented at the European level, that their voice isn’t being heard on the issues that matter to them. The ‘I Vote Europe’ campaign will change that! Together we can call for change that gives a voice to all Europeans! ‘I vote Europe’ pushes for truly European elections giving you a European vote to create positive change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1620496178748-VDM58MAMOEWMY6SCHJAR/iStock-1173744121.jpg Home - soft launch - In the EU elections, we have 27 ways to elect 1 Parliament. EU Citizens from different countries face different voting systems, different thresholds, different voting ages, and different voting laws. How can European elections be fair unless they are equal? https://www.ivoteurope.eu/take-action-main daily 0.75 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1623143959831-Q3KAMI1SICH373KS99RP/unsplash-image-ySA9uj7zSmw.jpg Get Involved - STEP 1: Contact your MEP Directly engaging with your representatives at the parliament is the best way to let them know you want better elections and real democracy in Europe. Send them a tweet or an email with our automated system and make sure your voice is heard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1623144272389-0CC4CZHFFMLUA569LQHF/unsplash-image-GJao3ZTX9gU.jpg Get Involved - STEP 2: Sign the petition Sign our petition to create a single, European election with standardised electoral rules and make Europe Day (May 9th) a Europe-wide public voting holiday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1620489538308-7WXA44FUC57RL241EV5W/pexels-photo-5053740.jpg Get Involved - STEP 3: Sign up for our Newsletter Keep in touch with our campaign. We won’t intrude upon your inbox often, but when we do it will be to give you important updates on the campaign to fight for a stronger European democracy, and opportunities to make your voice heard across Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1620473863273-WB04IB2CXIF9MDJQ7XPL/dole777-EQSPI11rf68-unsplash.jpg Get Involved - STEP 4: Follow us on social media To stay up to date to everything that is happening on this campaign and find out more why this campaign is so very important, follow us on our social media channels. Like, share, comment, invite your friends and relations. Your contribution is vital to help the campaign grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/1619906135394-2N0D185ZLVCT0VJAA87C/dylan-gillis-KdeqA3aTnBY-unsplash.jpg Get Involved - STEP 5: Become a Volunteer Lastly, if you’ve ever been frustrated by distant politicians and elections that feel as though they won’t make a difference, then you’ve come to the right place. Join our movement to ensure equal elections in every European country, and together we’ll ensure your local community has an equal say in how Europe is governed. https://www.ivoteurope.eu/privacy daily 0.75 2021-05-18 https://www.ivoteurope.eu/disclaimer daily 0.75 2021-05-18 https://www.ivoteurope.eu/updates daily 0.75 2022-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/a2a17e98-fd6c-4e11-a632-9a682d0bf197/unnamed%281%29.jpg Updates - WE NEED YOU! You are the only ones who are able to create such pressure! You need to tell them why you care about wanting new rules for the 2024 elections; why you want to vote for a pan-European list, and why it should be easy to vote and to be elected! How to help? Click on the button below to get too our Take Action page or use the navigation. Thank you for your help! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/5c935169-fc1d-4d37-a3f9-98c03b8fdeaf/unnamed%282%29.png Updates - BACKGROUND TO THE NEGOTIATIONS: THE COMPROMISE Each vote does not count. There is an issue with the threshold! Big parties want to protect themselves in their ivory tower of power, from competition and innovation. Currently, negotiators are talking about installing a minimum threshold of 2% and a maximum threshold of 5%! This is the key problem currently in the negotiations, and it was tried in 2018 and failed! Why should it work now? Every 16-year old will have the right to vote… well kind of. The text now states that every European as of the age of 16 shall have the right to vote in the EU elections! There is one hook though, namely that if nations do not allow this at the moment, then current rules apply - meaning in many Member States only 18 year-olds can vote. BUT at least the direction is set to reduce the voting age. Every 18-year old European can become a politician. No matter where you are from, you are allowed to run as a candidate in the European election from the age of 18. This will change the list of candidates in Italy, Greece (until now the minimum age was 25), Romania (23), Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Cyprus (21). Stronger measures to improve gender equality. For now, the compromise is heading towards making sure that women and men are equally represented on electoral lists. Some members are still trying to block this, but they are running out of arguments. One issue we have is that the current wording is binary and does not open the room for non-binary or transgender politicians. But it is a start in the right direction! Political competition is growing - watch out establishment! European political movements and coalitions of national political movements that can gather a decent amount of signatures in 7 Member States can run for the Union-wide constituency! Look out establishment, competition from new political ideas and movements is on its way! Every MEP is to be equally scrutinised. A demand for minimum democratic standards - that are proportionate and fair - has been taken up. Each country now has to guarantee that it has reasonable, fair, democratic and proportionate conditions for registering a party or an association of citizens, and for submitting a candidacy for the national and the Union-wide constituencies. Political parties are also asked to select their candidates via democratic procedures. Parental leave & temporary replacements is possible. At least some of the rules for the European Parliament elections and Members of the European Parliament may finally arrive in the 21st century! The compromise supports changes to make parental leave a possibility for MEPs so that they can be replaced temporarily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60473359292a5d29e699ebc5/05afb67f-51ef-4cd4-812c-d157af3661c9/unnamed%281%29.png Updates - STATUS QUO OF THE NEGOTIATIONS: A GAME OF CHICKEN There nearly was a deal, but then there wasn’t! Negotiations came really close to a deal during the January Strasbourg Plenary session. However, a deal failed to materialise due to a German conservative opposition to an ambitious electoral law act. Everything depends on pan-European lists! All politically sensitive issues such as voting age, an electoral threshold and gender equality on electoral lists depend on the size of the pan-European list. Everything hinges on whether we get to elect 7 MEPs across the continent or 26, 30 or 46! The center-right does not want to have more than 7 seats available for pan-European politicians (if we apply the 2019 election result that would mean 3 for center right, 2 for socialists, 1 for liberals, 1 for the far right). The others (the socialists, liberals, greens and the left) will only agree to discuss the aforementioned political issues if the size of the list is bigger than 30…No one wants to move on their position! Whoever blinks first may lose! Since 19 January, negotiations have hit a roadblock! Everything has been postponed for now. The problem is that this standoff is costing us valuable time on the road to agreeing on a new election law ahead of 2024. The only way out is for political leaders to find a compromise! However, nothing is going to change their minds unless they feel the pressure from you and other Europeans that a decision has to be made! They won’t feel it unless we tell them that a decision is necessary and that we want new rules for the 2024 elections.