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<P><BIG>Hi,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>Today, we wake up with hope.</B> Not only because of the results of
the EU election, known last night. But because of all of us who voted, took to
the streets, and rallied others online. You are amazing. And together we will
overcome the most difficult challenges of our time: our climate emergency, our
democracy and rule of law, a broken asylum system, and so many others.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>I want to acknowledge the power of what we just did together at this
EU election.</B> We came out in droves - voter turnout was the highest for a
European Union election in 20 years. We said no to hate, and yes to change - and
that’s what we got! The far-right haters did not get the meteoric rise they were
expecting. And many new politicians will enter parliament who could take action
on the big existential questions like fighting climate change and inequality -
especially if we hold them to account! That's the kind of change we want, not
Salvini’s divisive version of it. </BIG></P>
<P><BIG>This was our first EU election together. WeMove did not even exist five
years ago when the last EU election took place. And I am proud of what we’ve
done. By taking action online and offline, we made the movement visible
throughout Europe. We showed Europe that is not only the far-right that can make
noise. While they can rally their bases with hate, <B>we rallied our friends and
families with hope.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>There is so much to be inspired by from this election. The surge in
youth voting, the hundreds of thousands who joined us on the streets to kick off
election week, the multitudes more who supported the climate strikes last
Friday, and every single one of you who rallied someone else to vote. </BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Together, we collected pledges to vote from tens of thousands of
Europeans, encouraged our friends and families to vote, and coordinated massive
elections events across the EU just over a week ago. Even in the face of face of
far-right hate and disinformation, <B>200,000 of us came out to say “no to hate,
yes to change!”</B> Thousands of media outlets around the world – from the New
York Times to CNN – reported on our events. [1]</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><EM>One of our EU election events in Romania on 19
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<P><BIG><B>It’s well worth taking a moment to sit back and think about what
we’ve managed to achieve together in such a short time.</B> But new
Commissioners will be decided by Members of European Parliament (MEPs) and EU
countries already in the coming weeks. New MEPs will soon be sitting their first
legislative sessions. And we will be ready.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>Over the last European Parliament, we achieved greater things than we
could even imagine:</B> we got the EU to ban some single-use plastics and make
producers pay for plastic pollution [2], and we ran a successful European
Citizens’ Initiative which overhauled the rules on transparency for potentially
toxic pesticides, additives, and other food products. [3] We even got MEPs to
strengthen rules on their own transparency! [4] And we’ve done so much
more.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>But we can’t be complacent. This election was only one moment in the
story of our movement.</B> So, please keep an eye out for our upcoming actions –
together we’ve made a real difference in this election, and together we’ll help
to shape the course of our next five years.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>In solidarity,<BR>Olga (Bologna), Jörg (Lübeck), Giulio (Rome) and the
entire WeMove team</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>P.S. If you are able, please consider joining the thousands of other
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Everything we‘ve managed to do up to now is thanks to the generosity of our
movement.</BIG></P>
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<P>References:<BR>[1]
https:<SPAN>//www.huffpost</SPAN>.com/entry/european-union-elections-far-right_n_5ceb375be4b00e036571026d<BR>https:<SPAN>//www.economist</SPAN>.com/charlemagnes-notebook/2019/05/26/populists-fall-short-of-expectations-in-the-european-elections<BR>https:<SPAN>//www.bloomberg</SPAN>.com/news/articles/2019-05-26/europe-s-mainstream-holds-as-populists-fail-to-break-through<BR>[2]
https:<SPAN>//act.wemove</SPAN>.eu/campaigns/EP-single-use-plastics<BR>[3]
https:<SPAN>//act.wemove</SPAN>.eu/campaigns/protect-food-safety<BR>[4]
https:<SPAN>//act.wemove</SPAN>.eu/campaigns/lobby-transparency</P>
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