Europe different


Europe different - DIFFERENT

Alliance chairperson	KPÖ: Mirko Messner, Didi Zach, Florian Birngruber Pirate Party: Bernhard Hayden, Andreas Schmid, Juliana Okropiridse Wandel: Agnes Peterseil, Dani Platsch, Fayad Mulla
vice-chairman	KPÖ: Dagmar Schindler, Melina Klaus, Natascha Wanek, Hilde Grammel Pirate Party: Christopher Clay (c3o), cyberhawk, faithless change: Ronny Mitterhofer
founding	March 1, 2014
Place of foundation	Vienna , Mautner-Markhof-Gasse 50
Headquarters	Vienna, Garnisongasse 22
Alignment	progressive egalitarian system-critical
European party	European Left (KPÖ only) European Pirate Party (Pirate Party only)
colour	Purple, red and yellow for the bar charts is intended to be yellow.

Website	europaanders.at

Europa anders ( ANDERS ) was a political alliance founded in Austria in the run-up to the 2014 European elections . It consisted of the Communist Party of Austria , the Pirate Party , the Change Party and independents like Martin Ehrenhauser . In the 2014 European elections , the alliance received 2.14% of the vote in Austria and thus failed to make it into the European Parliament.

Founding convention and continuation after the EU election

On March 1, 2014, the official founding convention took place in Vienna, at which Martin Ehrenhauser was elected as the top candidate for the 2014 European elections.

An internal party initiative of the Pirate Party commissioned its federal management in August 2014 to dissolve the electoral alliance. The pirates justified this step u. a. thus, the election result was "a clear sign against further cooperation of this kind". So far, no official statements have been made about the continuation of the electoral alliance by the other partners.

Candidates EU election 2014

The two top candidate places for the 2014 election to the European Parliament were reserved for non-party members and went to Martin Ehrenhauser and Ulli Fuchs at the founding convention . The rest of the list was filled alternately by the candidates of the KPÖ, the pirate party and the change. The main candidates of the parties were:

KPÖ: Waltraud Fritz
Pirate Party: Lukas Daniel Klausner
Change: Fayad Mulla

program

core items

The key points were already decided in the cooperation agreement between the three parties. These are:

Innovative democracy, participation and a mature society
Network freedom, data protection and open knowledge
Equal opportunities, distributive justice and safeguarding the welfare state
Sustainable business and future of work
Active peace policy and solidarity

General program

The election manifesto describes a “different EU” on eight pages based on four key questions. For each question there is a further preamble and specific demands:

Who's in charge?
- Right of initiative for the European Parliament and abolition of the Council
- Rejection of non-transparent and undemocratic agreements such as TTIP or the ESM
- Full financial transparency
Who will benefit from the digital revolution?
- Basic right to broadband access to the open and free Internet
- Prohibition of total surveillance
- Free access to knowledge and research
Whom does the economy serve?
- Progressive and equal taxation of wages, corporate and capital income
- Europe-wide financial transaction tax
- Ban on bank bailouts at the expense of society and stop privatization of communal and public property
How many lives does our peace cost?
- EU-wide disarmament
- Dissolution of the EU battle groups
- Full compliance with the Geneva Refugee Convention and humane care for refugees

It was developed in an open process until February 22nd, 2014. This was implemented via a website on which the draft program could be designed by everyone.

Referendum

On the occasion of the protest camp on the Ballhausplatz for the hypo - liability boycott , a referendum was initiated to hold a referendum on the state's liability for banks.