I want to galvanize all my European friends and family to take action, because it really feels like this EU policy is going to pass, and most people are completely unaware of it, and when they are, they underappreciate its gravity.
One of my friends is Flemish, and although they speak and understand English, I know it would be better if I sent them links in their own language for them to fully grasp want what is at stake.
Also, does anyone know if Europeans who live outside the EU can do something?
The guide can be a video, but it needs to be super clear and concise, with links for calls to action.
I don’t have a real answer but you can always have your friend use a page translator via an extension or something similar so they may read and understand it better?
Wow, they don’t even have it in Dutch let alone Flemish! I might be able to write up a translation, although I am a second-language speaker so it may not be an amazing translation.
Update: I won’t be able to because in order to provide a translation I’d need to contact over Mastodon, and I don’t have any social media.
These are my best finds, and I vetted them for accuracy and only the first one (Clickx) has a clear call to action at the end. A Flemish person should be able to completely understand this, since it’s using standardized Belgian. The EenVandaag one takes a more neutral and descriptive stance of the event, and it is using standardized Dutch (which is almost identical to standardized Belgian)
I forgot to mention: I am natively Dutch so I read them using my own intuition.
And page has more other languages, plus with option to translate further.
And this great new website is already available in French https://fightchatcontrol.eu/, and increasingly it has more and more languages every day.
P.S. I find some critique of this website (https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) on the internet, that contacting local parliaments in your own country (Belgium) can be more influential during this voting round (Because on October 14 governments vote, not EU parliament), but contacting EU parliament members is simpler now, while contacting local parliaments is confusing, because unclear how exactly countries individually reach their decision.
Even if Dutch and Flemish are the same language, I assume there is some difference?
The reason I originally wanted a specifically Flemish source is because I know some people are more willing to accept information if it’s from their country. I also know that with video, some people get annoyed if it’s not their country’s accent or in an accent that they “like” and/or “respect”. It’s stupid, but unfortunately, people have these biases.
Well you’re right, though the language is the same, the Flemish have a whole different accent. And they’d probably prefer content in their own, familiar dialect.
