ANO pro Evropu


ANO pro Evropu is an NGO based in Prague, Czech Republic. ANO pro Evropu seeks to be broadly-based, and is nonpartisan and nonparticipitory in elections.

Goals and Initiatives

ANO pro Evropu is a civic association which intends to achieve the following objectives within the Czech Republic:

1) To work to try to make Europe as much of a 'shared space' as possible in national debate, rather than another area left to partisan fighting.

2) To build awareness of the benefits of taking a positive approach to full engagement in the Union, including the necessity to avoid an elite-focus.

3) To promote the idea that membership is relevant to all groups and communities- that Europe is 'us,' not 'them.'
ANO organizes events in cooperation with other groups in accordance with the following principles:
Their initial objective as an organization was to design and implement a project to promote a high voter turnout and high affirmative vote in the Czech referendum addressing the proposed accession into the EU by campaigning throughout the Czech Republic beginning in 2002.
The organization assembled over 118 prominent campaigners, with former President Václav Havel as the principal supporter. Operationally, the campaign involved:
This was the first free referendum in Czech history, and the people voted in favor of membership of the European Union by 77%. ANO’s campaign was by far the most prominent non-party effort in the referendum.

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