European Union is a far better name.
My vote is for YUROP
What about URUP
Why is this a change.org proton when the EU has an official platform?
I never understand why they dont use the official Petition Portal
In general I agree to use official tools first, but we need to pause before our dismissal bursts out. As in another recent case neither the parliarment nor the commission is being adressed.
If you ask me it is remarkable, that this time a fairly (prominent) individual started the petition, not the party that he is a member of. I can only imagine that Damian himself or Volt hopes for broader acceptance and signages by acting disguised? This would be the more positive than another thought in which they are lacking communication and cooperation skills.
Both quite often strongly underscoring their european mind and approach, but fail to use way better alternatives for the selected platform. Probably to reach more people who know it already and because the user base is bigger over there.
Why? This is going wat too fast and they know that. So, why even say these kinds of things?
Because Volt is neoliberal economics with a professional marketing campaign and venture capital investors first, and then it creates a veil of progressive social stances around it.
It is a project to deradicalize young people away from demanding system change.
That sounds bleak. Could you elaborate?
See https://feddit.org/post/6379970/3943409 for a look into their donations list. It is in German but keywords like venture capital and private equity should be recognizeable easily.
For the MEP and founder of Volt in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Boeselager
He worked three years for McKinsey and helped other business consultants into the leadership of Volt.
As for their platform, Volt (Germany) embraces economic growth, wants to reduce corporate tax and protect wealthy inheritors from inheritance tax, through loopholes for businesses they own. When asked in an interview for the German federal elections, how that works together with achieving climate neutrality, the “lead candidate” was unable to name any concept as to how that should work.
I’ve signed it, but I also thing that the ”EU” is a much better name.
The point of the petition isn’t the name though, it’s constitutional change
Yes, that’s Why I have signed it
