Dear all
it looks like the barley is not fit for purpose. I asked the fotographer, he strongly discourages us to work with them.
It looks like in the first weeks they had a good dynamic in growing, but in last weeks they did not make improvements, but got weaker. Maybe simply wrong time of the year. Sorry.
Johanna and me had a short chat.
we propose:
let us go on to have some activity in front of the EPO.
for the picture: In addition to our poster etc, we could have 38 empty beer bottles with the flags of the Contracting States and our logo as a sticker on it. message: no more beer for the EPO (the experts of the Contracting States), because they did not solve the problem! (we would not say, you are acting like empty bottles, but the message will be in the picture anyway). I guess we still could try to hand it over (maybe they refuse, doesn't matter).
I again spoke with the fotographer, he agrees.
This visual may also become a nice starting point for the next step of the campaign on the conference of the ministers of the contracting states.
I will redraft the PR and send. I do not think we have to change the backgrounder, but I will check.
cheers
Christoph