The campaign consists of a series of visuals featuring CESI decision makers and mandate holders who explain why they will go vote during the elections, and why according to them voting is important for every worker and citizens in the EU. Until the day of the election, one visual will be shared across CESI’s social media channels every day, which include X and Linkedin.

CESI Secretary General said on the occasion of the launch of the campaign: “Ahead of EU elections, we have often said that voting is instrumental because the EU stands at a crossroads with multiple challenges and needs a strong pro-European backing and legitimation from the citizens. This time, I feel that this message highly relevant again. During the last years, the EU and is Member States have been in a state of perma- and polycrisis, they had to master the Covid pandemic, large-scale refugee integration, an inflation crisis, and now support to Ukraine in a war by Russia in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood. There, during the last years, overall, the EU has delivered. We do not know what further challenges and crises we may face during the next years, but one thing is almost for certain: We will need the EU, and we will need a strong EU. Most of our problems and issues cannot be solved by Member States themselves only on their own. In many cases we need the EU to facilitate, support, coordinate and manage – depending on what is at stake. This is why we call on all of our affiliates, on all workers, on all citizens Europe to inform themselves about electoral choices ahead of the elections and cast a vote that will enable the EU to deliver for them during the next five years.”

CESI’s social media campaign is accompanied by an electoral debate for its membership on May 28, which will also see a discussion with affiliates on CESI’s own election manifesto and the party programmes of other European parties.