80 Street Actions across Europe are taking place simultaneously at 12:00 tomorrow (12th December 2008) in towns and cities across the continent to demand CHANGE in Europe.

The Young European Federalists (JEF Europe) have mobilised activists in over 80 European cities to demand a true Federal Government for the citizens of Europe able to exercise and implement ambitious European wide policies to address global ecological, financial and security matters.

In Brussels activists will demonstrate outside the European Parliament at Place Luxembourg @12:00 with masks of major political figures who will appear to be sleeping and awakened by a giant EU clock.

Central to the Federalist campaign is a European Manifesto to be supported by the candidates to the European Parliament. The Manifesto can be read in full on the campaign website, also to be launched on 12th December – itstimeforeurope.eu.

JEF Europe President Samuele Pii stated:

“Europe needs leadership! We can’t have a union incapable of deciding its own future”.

“Cowen, the Irish Prime Minister, has set out the conditions for Ireland to hold a second referendum. A sign of leadership would be to accept those conditions and allow Ireland to hold a second referendum and allow Lisbon to enter into force in advance of the EP elections”.

“The EP elections without the Lisbon Treaty; without candidates to the presidency of the European Commission nominated by the European political parties; and without cross border public debates will be a victory for the nationalist forces and a defeat for the general will of European citizens”.

“The time for national solutions to supranational challenges is over. It’s TIME for Europe!”

Commenting on the campaign, JEF Europe Vice President and Co-ordinator of the action stated:

“The message is clear; either CHANGE or die”.

“This Union, in its current shape and form is not built to last. We need solid institutions and a reformed Government with real power, accountable to European citizens”.

“If things don’t CHANGE, confidence will never be restored in these institutions, voter turnout in EP elections will continue to lower and the purpose and role of the EU will start to be questioned. In the current global financial crisis there has never been a better TIME to act.”

List of current participating cities:

Albania: Tirana

Austria: Graz, Klagenfurt

Belgium: Brussels, Ghent and Leuven

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Sarajevo

Bulgaria: Sofia

Croatia: Zagreb

Czech Republic: Prague

Denmark: Copenhagen

England: London, Manchester and York

Finland: Oulu, Jyväskylä and Helsinki

France: Paris, Lille, Nîmes, Rennes, Caen, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nantes, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Havre, Bordeaux and Versailles

Germany: Bonn, Berlin, Bremen, Freiburg, Trier, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Münster

Greece: Athens, Pireas, Crete and Komotini

Hungary: Budapest

Italy: Milan, Gorizia, La Spezia, Bologna, Pescara, Pavia, Erba and Prato

Ireland: Dublin

Kosovo: Pristina

Latvia: Riga

Lithuania: Vilnius

Luxembourg: Luxembourg

Macedonia: Bitola

Malta: La Valletta

Moldova: Chisinau

Montenegro: Podgorica

Netherlands: Amsterdam

Norway: Oslo, Bergen, Tromsø, Stavanger and Trondheim

Poland: Warsaw

Scotland: Edinburgh and Glasgow

Serbia: Nis and Novi Sad

Slovakia: Bratislava

Slovenia: Ljubljana

Spain: Madrid

Sweden: Stockholm and Uppsala

Switzerland: Zurich and Geneva

Wales: Cardiff

United States: New York

Press Contact:

Toni Giugliano (Pan European Action) +44 (0)7756663312

Samuele Pii (Brussels Action) +32 487214010

Email: sg@jef.eu

www.itstimeforeurope.eu