The NEOS tried to be a choir in the EU election campaign on Tuesday: about a hundred people sang the ‘Ode to Joy’, which also serves as the European anthem, together with top candidate Helmut Brandstätter (see video above). “We are here as United Voices of Europe,” said Brandstätter.
According to their own statement, the NEOS want to create the “United States of Europe”. Among those who sang were representatives such as Stephanie Krisper and Douglas Hoyos. The choir sang euphorically on piano and flute on the steps in front of the parliament in Vienna.
The premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony took place on May 7, 1824, exactly 200 years ago, at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna. Beethoven and Friedrich Schiller, whose ode ‘To Joy’ that Beethoven set to music in the fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony, were ‘great Europeans’, according to the NEOS. Many terrible things have happened in the past 200 years, “but we have learned from them,” Brandstätter said confidently.
Tour to Skeptics
NEOS chairman Beate Meinl-Reisinger is planning a tour in the EU election campaign from Wednesday. According to her own statement, she does not want to make speeches, but instead talk to people on the ground about what they don’t like about the EU and how it can be improved. According to this principle, citizens should prefer to vote for their own party, at least not for the FPÖ.
The party leader himself sees, among other things, a stop to illegal migration to Europe with procedures in third countries, a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption and less bureaucracy in the EU institutions as necessary. These tasks cannot be solved alone, but only in collaboration.
Source: Krone
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