ActionAid’s mission is to empower women living in poverty and exclusion to achieve their human rights and secure support for transformative change from Ireland and global institutions.
Your commitment to global justice and women’s rights is crucial. On June 7th, you have the opportunity to ensure the European Union embraces this commitment as well.
By voting, you will determine which Members of the European Parliament will represent you for the next five years, as well as how the EU responds to issues of global poverty, women’s rights, climate action, addressing inequalities, and migration. These are the issues that matter to the women and communities we work with. These are the issues that matter to ActionAid’s work globally. We hope that these issues matter to you when you have your say in determining the future of Europe.
Here at ActionAid, we have analyzed the manifestoes of the five European political parties current Irish MEPs are affiliated with and the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) political grouping (Labour or Social Democrats don’t currently have any MEPs but would likely join the S&D if they were successful).
This is not an analysis of individual Irish MEPs work at the European Parliament. We acknowledge and commend some MEPs who have worked to address poverty and inequality and have been more outspoken than their political party on human rights. This analysis is intended to support those MEPs and voters to question and influence their political parties to put greater attention on the issues we care about.
READ OUR ANALYSIS IN FULL HERE
Our analysis looks at their positions on women’s rights, climate justice, global inequalities, migration, and the Gaza crisis. All these issues are on the ballot when you vote on June 7th.
We recognize there are so many candidates and it’s hard to read all of the material that comes through your letterbox, so we have suggestions for questions for your MEPs:
PS: Here is a breakdown of how Irish parties are generally linked with European parties:
Fine Gael European | People’s Party (EPP)
Fianna Fáil | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Sinn Féin, Independents | European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
Labour Party, Social Democrats | Socialists & Democrats (S&D)
Green Party | European Green Party (EGP)
