Hi all,
Tonight, tomorrow and on Wednesday MEPs will meet with the Romanian Presidency and European Commission for what is expected to be the final round of trilogues.This means that by Thursday we should know whether we have a final agreement.
Expectations are that this will be the case and that a final plenary vote will take place end of March or in April. If the text remains as it is now, which is to be expected, Wikimedia won't be able to support the reform. [1] This also mean that we would speak out against it.
Nevertheless, for now we think we should get prepared and hold off from immediate public actions this week until we know what the final version is like. The reason for this is that the exact wording of the agreement will be crucial to our argumentation. We also have to agree on the best timing for actions ahead of the vote.
Currently we are preparing an outline of actions that we could take as a community. There are plenty of ways we can make our voice heard and they can be suited to the time and hands on deck available. Our feeling is that we shouldn't just repeat what we did last time but these things are, of course, country specific. Soon we will invite the groups we have already worked with to calls to discuss possible actions. If you want to get in touch on your side, please do!
Cheers, Anna & Dimi
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/problems-remain-with-the-eus-copy...