The meeting in Naples, March 10, 2018. DiEM25. All rights reserved.On 7 February in Brussels, the European Parliament rejected the idea of creating transnational European lists for the 2019 Elections. Nevertheless, the first transnational European list of candidates for the 2019 Elections was created on 10 March, in Naples.
On the initiative of the Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM25, founded in 2016 by the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, several national, regional and municipal political organisations from all over Europe met in the Domus Ars in Naples:
- Génération-s, the left-wing French environmental movement led by Benoît Hamon;
- DeMA, Democrazia e Autonomia, a citizen platform, led by the mayor of the “rebel city” of Naples, Luigi De Magistris
- Razem, the Polish feminist, pro-labour, anti-austerity movement, represented by, among others, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
- Livre , the pro-European, left-wing libertarian, ecological, Portuguese movement, represented by its co-founder Rui Tavares
- Alternativet, the Danish, progressive, European, environmentalist party represented by Rasmus Nordqvist
- Bündnis – DiEM25, the electoral wing of DiEM25 in Germany
Open to the public with its press conference livestreamed, the meeting took place under the benevolent regard of a great lady of the European left, Susan George, and was observed by representatives of the Romanian DEMOS movement, the German DiB party, the French Communist Party, the Croatian parties Nova ljevica and Zagreb Je NAŠ! the Slovenian Levica Party, as well as the Party of European Greens and the Party of the European Left.
