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Time to act on the Future of Europe…

Time to act on the Future of Europe…. www.act4europe.org. What Are the Essential Tools?. Strategic planning Information Contacts Evaluation. Strategic Planning. Formulate a clear goal Define your organisation ’ s interest in EU matters

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Time to act on the Future of Europe…

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  1. Time to acton the Future of Europe… www.act4europe.org

  2. What Are the Essential Tools? • Strategic planning • Information • Contacts • Evaluation

  3. Strategic Planning • Formulate a clear goal • Define your organisation’s interest in EU matters • How does the EU law impact on your national situation? • Distinguish between your outcome (vision) and the output (result) of a specific campaign • Agree on the priority actions and group into activities/tasks

  4. Strategic Planning • Gather your strength, join forces – awareness raising amongst NGOs to gather support • Reconcile the action tasks with your realistic resources (human capacity, money, time etc.) • Agree at what point you will revise and evaluate in between (the “Pipi-stop”) • Final evaluation

  5. Collect Information • Regularly read/skim the relevant newsletters of your EU NGO networks. • Follow their campaign instructions, check NGO or sector websites. Contact them directly if necessary. “Make your life easy” • Use the information the EU institutions can give, think about the citizens’ advice services.

  6. Collect Information • Europe by Satellite http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/reception_internet_en.html • IDEA – Electronic Directory of the European Institutions http://www.europa.eu.int/idea/en/index.htm • Commission Directory http://europa.eu.int/comm/staffdir/html/legal_en.htm • Eur-Lex http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/ • PreLex http://europa.eu.int/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en#

  7. Collect Information • Oeil – Legislative Observatory of the European Parliament http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/dors/oeil/en/search.shtm • Public register of Council documents http://ue.eu.int/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id=254&lang=en&mode=g access@consilium.eu.int

  8. Identify contacts • Identify the government Ministers and politicians responsible. • Members of Parliament are your elected representatives and have to respond to you. • Go through their constituencies if possible. • Which M(E)Ps are responsible/active in the area you are interested in?

  9. Establish Contact • Do you or any other NGO contacts know someone working in the Ministry? What is going on in the background? • Identify someone sympathetic to your demands. • CALL this person (agree who will do this). • Offer to SEND MATERIAL on your demands • WRITE to the Minister/M(E)P (joint letter – as many NGOs as possible). • Ask for a MEETING with the Minister/M(E)P.

  10. Meet Your Political Representative • Prepare the meeting well • Collect information about who you are meeting (interests, track record, party) • List three key points you want to get across • Ask how much time there is and pace yourself accordingly

  11. Do not let them side-track from the issue • Predict their arguments; prepare counter arguments • Be precise what you want them to do, repeat that at the end • Be firm but friendly • Write afterwards to thank them/ indicate what has been agreed upon • ALWAYS FOLLOW UP!

  12. Time to acton the Future of Europe www.act4europe.org

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