The European wide campaign aims to increase the presence of women at the highest level of European politics and to encourage women and voters in general to cast their votes in the next European elections.
The Campaign is already personally endorsed by almost 200 well known personalities across Europe such as European Commission President and Vice President José Manuel Barroso and Margot Wallström, Prime minister of Belgium Yves Leterme, President of the Slovenian Republic Danilo Türk, former Irish President Mary Robinson, Nobel Price winner Orhan Pamuk, and the former President of the European Parliament Simone Veil. EPHA President Joanne Vincenten is one of them.
The EWL invites people from across Europe to support the 50/50 Campaign by signing the petition and by taking part in lobbying actions. The Campaign website www.5050democracy.eu offers different tools to be involved and influence political parties and decision-makers in views of the European elections 2009.
