We Are In This Together

We are in this together (weareinthistogether.eu) initiated by Sven Giegold, a member of the European Parliament, calling on the people of European countries to unite in the Covid-19 pandemic. The movement spread quickly on Twitter with the hastag #WeAreInThisTogether and today more than 20,000 people have signed up to join the movement on the site.

This petition has been initiated by Sven Giegold MdEP, Franziska Brantner MdB and Alexandra Geese MdEP.

Sven Giegold have been a member of the European Parliament for Bündnis90 / Die Grünen NRW since 2009. Sven Giegold the spokesman for the German Greens in the European Parliament, chairman of the green parliamentary group in the Committee on Economic and Financial Policy and a deputy member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2013, and since 2013 she has been a member of the German Parliament.

Alexandra Geese is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019

The Greens/European Free Alliance is a political group in the European Parliament made up of Green, Pirate and Independent MEPs as well as MEPs from parties representing stateless nations and disadvantaged minorities.

In this form, the group was established in July 1999, when these two progressive European political families agreed to join forces in the European Parliament.

The Greens/EFA project is to build a society respectful of fundamental human rights and environmental justice: the rights to self-determination, to shelter, to good health, to education, to culture, and to a high quality of life; increase freedom within the world of work, not only by tackling unemployment but also by widening people’s choices, releasing human creative potential ; deepen democracy by decentralisation and direct participation of people in decision-making that concerns them, and by enhancing openness of government in Council and Commission, and making the Commission fully answerable to Parliament; build a European Union of free peoples based on the principle of subsidiarity who believe in solidarity with each other and all the peoples of the world; re-orientate the European Union, which currently over-emphasises its economic conception at the expense of social, cultural and ecological values.

Campoal (conikal.com/campoal) is used to build the website for this movement, the system has been optimized to handle hundreds of signatures per second.