#DeniedMyVote

Dear Supporter,

It is now over two years since the European elections and your support has helped us to keep flying the flag for the voting rights of EU citizens inn the UK and Britons abroad as we continue to press for a full inquiry into vote denied.

I am writing today to share two bits of good news with regard to New Europeans' campaigning on these issues.

Firstly, the UK Government has now in fact brought forward a bill to enfranchise UK citizens who have been abroad for longer than 15 years (we had been expecting this as provision was made for the financing of this in the budget).

This has been a long-standing campaign of New Europeans - we fought for many years alongside Harry Shindler MBE and are delighted that his campaign, which we have the honour to support has come to fruition.

Read more about Harry Shindler's campaign here

The second but of good news is that New Europeans UK has become a charity. This will not affect our ability to campaign for the rights of EU citizens in the UK and Britons abroad. 

Now that our UK operations have been awarded charitable status, your donations can attract gift aid and we will shortly be up-dating the information on this site accordingly.

Read more about our award of charitable status here

In the meantime, please email us at [email protected] for further details.

We have just had the first set of local elections in the UK since the end of the transition period, and EU citizens had the vote - I am quite sure that part of the explanation for why the government has not taken the voting rights of EU citizens away has to with the strengths of campaigns such as Vote Denied.

As Harry Shindler's 20 year campaign for the abolition of the 15 year rule has shown - when you lose your vote, it can take a very long time to get it back again.

Thanks again for your support and please do keep chipping in what you can afford to support our work on this campaign and all our activities to support EU citizens and Britons abroad going forwards.

With best regards

Roger

ROGER CASALE

Founder and CEO
New Europeans UK