European Peace Project
"We will not take part in the war games. We will not turn our men and sons into soldiers, our daughters into nurses in military hospitals and our countries into battlefields"
On May 9th at 5 pm — it is time to set an example for the peaceful future of Europe!
If the EU and its national governments want to lead us into a war against Russia, they are betraying all of Europe’s fundamental principles of peace, democracy, freedom, and international understanding!
Therefore, we, the citizens of Europe, are taking the future of this wonderful continent into our own hands!
We hereby launch the European Peace Project. On May 9th, 2025, at 5 pm, let us all simultaneously proclaim PEACE in all countries on the European continent and in all European languages with a performative speech act from our windows, on our balconies, and in our squares!
You can find the text of the proclamation here in numerous languages. If your national or local language (Catalan, Gaelic, Alsatian, etc.) is missing, please send us the translation! You are welcome to modify the proclamation text individually (omit or add something).
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Our appeal for peace:
Today, on May 9th, 2025 — exactly 80 years after the end of the Second World War, which cost the lives of 60 million people, including 27 million Soviet citizens — we, the citizens of Europe, raise our voices! We are ashamed of our governments and the EU, which have not learned the lessons of the 20th century.
The EU, once conceived as a peace project, has been perverted and has thus betrayed the essence of Europe! We, the citizens of Europe, are therefore taking our destiny and our history into our own hands today, on May 9th. We declare the EU a failure. We start with citizen diplomacy and refuse the planned war against Russia! We recognize the co-responsibility of the “West”, the European governments and the EU in this conflict.
We, the citizens of Europe, together with the European Peace Project, oppose the shameless hypocrisy and lies that are being spread today — on Europe Day — at official ceremonies and on public broadcasters.
We are reaching out to the citizens of Ukraine and Russia. You are part of the European family and we are convinced that together we can organize peaceful coexistence on our continent.
We have the images of the military cemeteries before our eyes — from Volgograd to Riga to Lorraine. We see the fresh graves left behind by this senseless war in Ukraine and Russia. While most EU governments and those responsible for the war are rushing and suppressing what war means for the population, we have learned the lesson of the last century: Europe means “Never again war!”.
We remember the European reconstruction achievements of the last century and the promises made in 1989 after the peaceful revolution. We call for a European-Russian Youth Exchange, modelled alike the French-German Youth Office of 1963, which ended the “hereditary enmity” between Germany and France. We demand an end to sanctions and the reconstruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We refuse to waste our tax money on armaments and militarization at the expense of social standards and infrastructure.
Within the framework of an OSCE peace conference, we call for the creation of a European security architecture with and not against Russia, as laid down in the 1990 Charter of Paris. We call for a neutral Europe, emancipated from the United States, which takes on a mediating role in a multipolar world. Our Europe is post-colonial and post-imperial.
We, the citizens of Europe, hereby declare this war to be over! We will not take part in the war games. We will not turn our men and sons into soldiers, our daughters into nurses in military hospitals and our countries into battlefields.
We offer to immediately send a delegation of European citizens to Kiev and Moscow to start a dialog. We will no longer stand by and watch our future and that of our children being sacrificed on the altar of power politics.
Long live Europe, long live peace, long live freedom.
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Thomas Fazi
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I wish you the best of luck with your peace project.
I don't think that your owners and their many tools in your various governments will quit trying to provoke a war, or at least a war ECONOMY just because you all said "no". We will see soon enough.
how is fuhrer von leyen going to explain that this is a russian propaganda op?? i am sure she will try..