New phase in Eliant signature campaign

Sun, 24 Feb 2008

New phase in Eliant signature campaign

LÖRRACH (NNA) The European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy (ELIANT) has launched a new phase in its campaign to collect one million signatures by the end of this year.

The Alliance, which has so far collected more than 320,000 signatures, then aims to use the signatures as a tool to lobby the EU Commission and influence policy making in the European Union.

In this latest phase of the campaign, the ELIANT core members meeting in December decided on a new policy to recruit 1,600 people who would be willing to collect 10 signatures per week until the end of November 2008.

In the 45 weeks from the end of January, when the announcement was made, to November that would represent 450 signatures per person.

“Our experiences last year clearly showed that the signature campaign’s success is due to the great commitment and personal input of those who make announcements at public events, personally hand out materials or tell people in their immediate surroundings about the campaign,” the Alliance wrote in a letter to “coordinators, friends and supporters of the ELIANT campaign”.

“At the same time it became apparent how many people who make use of biodynamic products, Waldorf schools and anthroposophical medicine and remedies support the concerns of the Alliance to create legal framework conditions at European level to safeguard these initiatives and direct others to our website www.eliant.eu, where campaign materials are available for printing and copying,” the letter adds.

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Item: 080224-01EN Date: 24 February 2008

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﻿New phase in Eliant signature campaign

New phase in Eliant signature campaign