[fse-esf] european network about charter for another Europe

[Annick Coupé]

ENGLISH

European Network : Charter of principles for another Europe

Proposals for the 20th  september

We have decided to  hold a meeting with 
representatives of the social movements from all 
Europe, interested by the process of the Charter 
 in September 20th  in the European Parliament in 
Brussels.

  This meeting should allow a widening of the 
involved forces and a popularization of Charte. 
The results of the European summit of States from 
 the 21st  and 22nd  June, with the decision 
about the mini simplified treaty indicate that 
the question of the future of Europe will return 
to the front of the political and social scene.

-         the Charter of the principles for 
another Europe is a perfectible document, 
supported on a process which must widen, but 
which has the merit to be worked out by a 
diversity of social movements, alter mondialists, 
trade-union, feminist, ecologists, politics, in 
debates carried out since more than 2 ans.

-         This European meeting of September 20th 
will take place before the adoption of the mini 
Européen treaty, envisaged in Lisbon October the 
18th  and 19th .

-         It gives to this meeting an increased 
political importance to show that the debate for 
an alternative to neoliberal Europe is growing up.

-         It is also a question that this text of 
the Charter is a tool to speak in the citizen 
debate  which has to be  developped in the whole 
Europe.

-         We  think useful to this stage to 
benefit from this meeting in the European 
Parliament to also engage this debate with the 
European members of Parliament, of various 
groups, which are interested by the process and 
 havea dialogue with the social movements on the 
future of Europe.

That's why we propose following unfolding for the day of September 20:



-         9H30 12H: presentation and debate on 
the Charter with the interested European 
deputies, interventions of activists of the 
social movement and the parlementairies.



-         13H30 - 17H: continuation of the 
process of the Charter open to any interested 
persons of the movements and networks falling 
under this process:

  - continuation of the debate on topics what do not make consensus:

1 -Which political Europe? (treaty or constitution, constitutional process...)

  2-The question of secularity,

3 -the question of the minority

-which initiatives to take for the continuation of the process of the Charter:

-actions and initiatives to be set up after the 20th of september.



Could you give your opinion on this unfolding, so 
that we can make the organisational decisions 
necessary with the GUE at the end of the week

  Thanks in advance

friendly

Chantal, Michel, Annick, Franco





Project for a

Charter of Principles for Another Europe

Introduction

Another Europe is possible: this is the horizon 
created by the anti-neoliberal social movements, 
creating a new stage in constructing a Europe of 
peoples.

The French and Dutch "No" to the "Treaty Adopting 
a European Constitution" revealed the failure of 
European neoliberal construction, anti-democratic 
and patriarchal, resulting in trade-offs between 
States without the peoples' intervention.  The 
elites claimed to be exercising a power invested 
in them, but which had not been conferred on 
them. The democratic deficit that has 
characterized the current construction of Europe 
has to be filled.

European mobilizations during the first years 
ofthe 21st century against the war, 
neoliberalism, sexism and racism, against the 
destruction of democratic and social rights and 
the privatization of public services and 
demanding the guarantee of universal rights, have 
opened the way to elaborating a project of a 
"Charter of Principles for Another Europe", which 
we wish to submit for public discussion.

The Principles of Another Europe are all equally 
important and have as their basis:

	equal dignity between persons and the 
inviolability of each person to be respected by 
all institutions;

	peace, freedom, justice and security as 
individual and collective assets;


	equality between all, first and foremost, 
the parity between men and women, by guaranteeing 
difference and diversities;

	democracy ensuring equal representation and participation;

	European citizenship based on place of residence;

	Social rights, the right to work and 
rights at work, the only solution in order to 
eliminate poverty, different forms of exclusion, 
and impoverishment;

	A socially equitable economy, based on 
solidarity,  sustainable life, and democracy

	Peoples' freedom and citizen' freedom.

Europe is not the same as the European Union: the 
process of enlargement by means of neoliberal 
policies is provoking in the east, but also in 
the west, unemployment, poverty, exclusion and is 
nourishing different forms of chauvinism.

The construction of the European Communities and 
of the European Union has has been characterized 
by the weight assigned to governments, to an 
unelected authority, the central role of the 
market-place, the right to open competition and 
to transnational corporations, around which 
economic and social relations, as well as the 
institutions themselves, have been structured. 
From now on we are faced with an "economic 
constitution" - the laws of the market-place are 
at the core of Treaties, prevail over democratic 
political decisions - in clear opposition to the 
founding principles of the constitutional 
Charters of the 20th century.

On the contrary, one must affirm the priority of 
fundamental social rights and of political and 
cultural rights, which require another economy to 
realise commonly-shared natural assets - land, 
water, air, energy - and public services. There 
has to be a recommitment to a vast process of 
social re-appropriation - new forms of social 
property - in order to satisfy all the social 
needs and permit a democratic development that 
can be ecologically sustained.

The Europe that we want is founded on the primacy 
of the rights of all and on the fundamental 
principle of direct participation by the citizens 
in public and collective decision-making. Europe 
must be a union of peoples freely associated 
together, grounded in constitutional democracy 
and a public space stretching beyond national 
borders, characterized by democracy at every 
level.

1. Europe and the World

The other Europe is founded on peace and the 
recognition of universal diversity. It rejects 
all strategies of economic or military domination 
and all forms of racism and chauvinism.





The other Europe contributes towards building 
world peace: it recognizes and promotes cultural 
and historical differences, in a framework of the 
equality of individual and collective rights and 
of universal human rights. So the new roots of 
Europe are consequently of "mixed blood" - a 
mixture of diverse national and ethic origins, 
thanks largely to the contribution of migrants: 
violence against migrants in the name of 
institutional borders is unacceptable.
Europe's historical colonial experience, both 
internal and external, characterized by political 
and social domination, the plunder of resources, 
by wars leaving millions of victims, imposes on 
Europe responsibilities with respect to the 
economic and social conditions of most of the 
world, particularly the South, but also Eastern 
Europe.

The principle of solidarity and respect must 
guide relations between countries within the 
European space and all other countries. Europe 
has to act, conscious of a common interest, in 
advancing global social and economic rights.





Europe supports the right of peoples to decide 
their own futures and to make their own choices 
in economic, social, cultural and environmental 
matters. Europe commits itself to guaranteeing 
the sovereignty of each people over its natural 
resources and its immediate environment.

The human right to development is unalienable, to 
the same extent as other fundamental rights. The 
Europe we want participates in the creation of a 
new international economic order which answers to 
this requirement and, in this context, cooperates 
in a way that recognizes the disparity of 
conditions and promotes the necessary equality of 
rights.

The cancellation of the external debt of poor 
countries is a necessary elementary and immediate 
measure.

Economic agreements must include recognition and 
reciprocal application of human rights according 
to the regulations and international conventions.
Europe supports the project of taxing 
international capital transfers and is opposed to 
their free circulation. It supports the creation 
of regional economic relations that are opposed 
to the logics of neoliberalism.

Another Europe rejects the law of the "free 
market" and the existence of a dominant 
"commercial  right" which results from this. The 
body of the international law is unique, valid 
for all States, international financial, 
economic, social and political institutions. The 
other Europe acts to integrate all existing 
international institutions within the framework 
of a democratized and radically-reformed United 
Nations.


2. Peace and security

Europe is founded on peace and on a security that 
is the result of social justice between the 
communities and the peoples.

Our Europe rejects war as a means for solving 
international conflicts and recognizes peace as a 
fundamental right of human beings and peoples.


Our Europe takes an active role in the defence 
and promotion of the universal values as the 
conditions for lasting peace: dignity, freedom, 
equality between all human beings, social, 
economic and democratic human rights.

Our Europe is committed to building peace through 
struggling against all forms of discrimination, 
injustice, exploitation, exclusion and threat, 
using international law, political negotiations 
and diplomacy as its fundamental instruments. It 
rejects all attempts coming from within or 
without aimed at transforming Europe into a 
military power on a global scale.


The Europe we want recognizes the right of all 
peoples to self-determination, respecting and 
guaranteeing the rights of minorities and their 
diversities, provided that they respect 
fundamental rights. As a result of this right, 
peoples must be free to decide about their 
political autonomy and their sovereignty in the 
economic, social and cultural spheres.


Our Europe recognizes the rights of individuals 
and peoples to resist oppression and injustices 
by all means that do not themselves result in the 
violation of universal human rights.

For this reason, our Europe supports the 
different initiatives to create an international 
system of justice capable of sanctioning States 
and all actors responsible for war-crimes.

Europe works for the active commitment of 
international institutions against any form of 
military, social or economic oppression and 
rejects as a matter of principle the use of 
military force. This is why it is in favour of 
the dissolution of NATO and of all other military 
alliances as well as in favour of the elimination 
of all foreign military bases throughout the 
world.

Europe rejects "humanitarian" and "preventative" 
war, since war can never solve problems; on the 
contrary, it only produces new violations of 
human rights and of international law. For the 
same reasons, it also rejects all forms of 
colonial and imperial domination. 


Europe repudiates all use and production of 
nuclear arms, all weapons of mass destruction as 
well as torture, the death penalty, and all forms 
of degrading treatment. It is committed to 
disarmament and demilitarization, in order to 
construct an open and welcoming world and a 
society that ensures the free circulation and 
settlement of human beings.


In order to create the conditions necessary for a 
peaceful and democratic international order, our 
Europe will promote a global policy of 
cooperation for development, guaranteed by 
bilateral and multilateral treaties, reinforcing 
the political, economic and social rights of 
citizens and peoples.


Our Europe recognizes the rights of individuals 
and communities to a life free from all 
aggression, danger and threat: its security is a 
consequence of the security of others. For this 
reason it will install an enlarged common and 
interdependent system of security, displacing the 
notion of security of states, moving towards the 
security of human beings.


In the name of these principles, our Europe 
abstains from any threat or offensive action by 
acting to prevent conflicts, by promoting 
peaceful solutions and through the humanization 
of international relations.

3. For a Europe based on rights, against all forms of discrimination


Our Europe respects and guarantees through all 
its spheres the principle of the equality of 
citizens respecting their differences and 
diversities.

Europe recognizes as a fundamental value and 
guarantees the right to equal status and 
effective equality between men and women in all 
spheres of political, economic, social and 
private life as well as the freedom of sexual 
orientation.

Europe is against the commercialization of sexual 
relations and guarantees the rights of 
prostituted persons.

All citizens participate on an equal footing in 
political life. Political institutions adopt 
constraining measures to achieve the equal 
participation of women and men within 
institutions, decisional bodies, and political 
and social agencies and organizations.



Every person who resides on a long-standing basis 
in the territory of Europe obtains its 
citizenship with all the associated.

All public institutions must guarantee the human 
rights and freedoms of women and take action 
against all forms of patriarchy. Every woman, in 
every country, will have the liberty to control 
her body, notably the right to abortion, 
contraception, the choice of maternity and 
control over artificial fertilization. Every 
woman will have the right yo choose how she 
conducts her private life (celibacy, marriage, 
cohabitation, divorce). Institutions must take 
action against all forms of patriarchy.  They 
must commit themselves to ending all trafficking 
in human beings and slavery in all its forms.


Europe commits itself to act with determination 
against  racism, antisemitism,islamophobia.


Public institutions take and promote all the 
initiatives required aimed at ending sexist 
violence against women and children, within and 
outside the family and call upon all countries to 
elaborate a framework law against violence 
perpetrated against women, together with 
effective measures for its implementation.

Europe is against the commercialization of sexual 
relations and guarantees their citizenship rights 
to prostituted persons.

Europe affirms the secularity of public 
institutions. It guarantees the dignity and 
freedom of conscience of all citizens regardless 
of their origins, opinion or beliefs, the freedom 
of individual and collective religious practices, 
insofar as these respect the rights of all 
citizens.


Europe recognizes the principle of the freedom of 
settlement and the free circulation of persons by 
guaranteeing this as a universal right. It 
guarantees the right to asylum.
All peoples have the right to self-determination, 
while guaranteeing the fundamental rights of 
individuals.

Every person belonging to a national minority 
will have the right to select freely to be 
treated as such without any hindrance resulting 
from this choice or the exercise related to this 
choice.

The language-of-origin of school-children and 
students in public schools is respected and taken 
into account; its teaching is facilitated.


Public institutions contribute through their 
action to overcoming material, cultural, symbolic 
and linguistic barriers existing between peoples.

4. For a democratic Europe

The European Union is not today  democratic. 
There is not a separation of powers: the Union's 
executive organ is given legislative; the Council 
of the European Union (also known as the Council 
of Ministers) is a legislative organ, while it is 
at the same time a meeting-place of national 
executives.

We wish to affirm the primacy of the peoples, as 
the irreplaceable sources of democratic 
legitimacy and of citizens' equal participation 
by men and by women, as the fundamental 
democratic principle in making decisions that 
concern them.

A democratic refounding process has to be set in 
motion, in which the peoples and citizens must 
play the principle role to construct a democratic 
and social Europe, in order for the political and 
citizens' choices to take precedence over the 
laws of the market-place and of the profit motive.

The Europe that we are projecting will be a Union 
of Peoples , it will be built in the name , by 
and with its peoples, democratically organized at 
all levels.

The end of the democratic deficit of European 
institutions will begin when, within a political 
constitution of Europe, we are able to really 
proclaim "We, the Peoples of Europe" rather than 
"We, the States of Europe".

The progressive passage from a Europe of States 
to a Europe of united peoples, organized in a 
truly creative way, must therefore be marked by 
political institutions that acquire their 
legitimacy through the will of the peoples, 
expressed directly through consultations or 
popular initiatives, or indirectly through the 
election of representative European assemblies, 
either with the participation of European 
citizens at the different levels (local, 
regional, national, etc.) or in the various 
political and social jurisdictions where 
collective decisions concerning them are made.

Our European constitutional democracy therefore 
constitutes a novel political entity. Political 
representation in the European space is a 
multi-level democracy and includes the 
representation of the peoples, of countries, of 
regions, of local communities.  A transnational 
democracy is founded moreover on the 
non-hierarchical cooperation between these 
different levels. It follows that the structuring 
of the institutions must be founded on dialogue 
and cooperation between equals, rather than on 
the hierarchy between different political or 
jurisdictional, national and European authorities.

At each point, citizens intervene in the 
important political, economic and social 
decisions. For this, they elect and control their 
representatives. At each level of competence, the 
government organs are responsible to the 
representative institutions. 
They must exercise the legislative initiative and 
political control - in association with the 
citizens and national, regional and local 
institutions.

For a true democratic Europe, the right to 
information and the freedom of communication must 
be treated as fundamental collective and 
individual political rights. These guarantee 
their autonomy to communicate, to inform 
themselves, to develop freely as well as to 
participate on an equal footing in the 
information and communication networks in the 
European public sphere.

5. Socio-economic rights for all persons residing in Europe

Equal rights and solidarity are a pillar of our 
Europe. They guarantee the social cohesion of our 
societies. Socio-economic rights have been 
acquired through social mobilization and 
enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration, by UN 
covenants on economic and social rights adopted 
in 1966, by the ILO Conventions, by the Turin 
1961 European Social Charter, by the 1989 
Community Charter on workers' fundamental social 
rights, the CEDAW

The defence and development of socio-economic 
rights constitute one of the objectives of our 
Europe. Europe is, at all levels, jointly 
responsible as the real and effective guarantee 
of these rights, according to the principles of 
indivisibility and of universality. They form an 
integral part of the fundamental rights. 

The rights declared must be subject to the 
jurisdiction of European and national courts. Any 
act by European institutions that violates the 
essential content of these rights must by subject 
to annulment by the European Court, as well as 
the non-application of these rights by national 
judicial bodies. Access to the judicial system is 
guaranteed, notably for persons with limited 
resources..
Respect of socio-economic rights is based on the following principles:

	The principle of social non-regression: 
no European decision may contravene what has been 
acquired and social rights as recognized by a 
national legislation.

	The principle of levelling upwards of 
norms allowing for the strengthening of legal 
protections accorded to workers rather than 
alignment with the lowest common denominator of 
national legislations. The application for all 
women in all countries of the European clause 
that is most favourable to them. 



The basis of our Europe is the respect for the 
right and dignity of workers regardless of their 
working situation.

Equality, cooperation, solidarity, the democratic 
definition of needs and social rights are the 
dominant values of Europe. These replace 
competition and free-trade.


Every European citizen has the right to benefit 
from a quality of life that provides protection 
from poverty and exclusion and allows for the 
full participation in social and cultural life: 
this means the eradication of unemployment, of 
economic insecurity, of poverty and all forms of 
exclusion.

The common salary and revenue norms below which 
one cannot pass will be fixed in taking account 
of the degree of development and the gains that 
have been obtained in each country. Guaranteed 
individual minimum revenue, minimum salaries and 
a calendar for harmonization "upwards" of social 
rights will be defined In function of this.


The right to a job and an income must be applied 
while prohibiting all forms of discrimination 
based on religion, sex, sexual orientation, 
political opinions or country of origin. The 
principle of "equal pay for equal work" must 
become a reality.


Everyone has the right to freely choose their job.

Self-employed workers (tradesmen, peasants) also 
have this right to revenue guarantees, to 
training, to working conditions, to democratic 
representation.


The reduction in working time will be an 
objective throughout Europe, starting with the 
generalization of the 35-hour work-week.

Europe acts at all levels to ensure that stable 
labour contracts without fixed duration become 
the norm throughout Europe.


All workers will be protected against lay-offs. 
Any arbitrary firing of workers is prohibited. 
The right of share-holders to close enterprises 
just for their own profit will be prohibited. Any 
project of laying off workers must be accompanied 
by guarantees for the workers in terms of 
training, income maintenance and the return to 
work.


Night work is prohibited to minors under the age 
of 18 and is only authorized in sectors where it 
is essential.

Europe recognizes social dialogue, trade-union 
freedom and the right to form associations as 
among its fundamental values. All workers have:
	the right to freely choose and elect their representatives;
	the right to collective negotiation at 
the level of the company, of their occupational 
category, at the national or European levels;
	the right to approve the collective agreements that concern them;
	the right to strike, including for 
motives of solidarity and political motives, at 
the local, national and European levels. 
Lock-outs are prohibited.

Fair representation and democracy in the 
work-place and in the trade-unions constitute 
fundamental rights at all levels. Workers' and 
trade-union representation, democratically 
elected at the European level, is one element of 
European democracy. 

A European Enterprise Council (EEC) has to exist 
within all companies with establishments in 
several different States.  The EEC has the right 
to information, to preliminary consultation as 
well as the right to intervene in management 
decisions concerning the size of the labour 
force, working conditions and the economic 
choices of the company. To guarantee the same 
rights to all, companies subcontracting work will 
be responsible for the workers employed by their 
subcontractors. 

Social security, unemployment benefits and 
pensions will reflect, both in how they function 
and how they are financed, a public logic based 
on solidarity, as opposed to recourse to 
individualized systems tied to the market-place 
(pension funds, private insurance, etc.) The 
public system (social security) will have to 
guarantee a decent standard of living for all, 
whatever the contingencies may be.


In order to guarantee the effective respect for 
the rights presented in this Charter, Europe must 
establish appropriate political, economic and 
social policies, at all levels. Particularly, 
fiscal and social dumping will end with the 
harmonization of fiscal policies and a public 
services policy that is no longer subject to 
competition.



6. Public services for access to rights
Defending public services must be at the heart of proposals for another Europe.

- Public services, despite the different ways in 
which they may be organized in different 
countries, must not be answerable to competition 
from the private sector and the profit motive. 
They must assure the satisfaction of fundamental 
rights and the access of all to the humanity's 
common assets.
	Public services must entail the public, 
democratic management of these resources. They 
must cede to a process of social 
re-appropriation, by satisfying the needs of 
persons by setting up a process to define these 
needs in the spheres in which public services 
operate. This concerns equally health, education, 
housing and transportation, as well as all the 
modern means of communications.





The commercialization and impoverishment of 
knowledge, of education and of research must stop.
	Education must be considered as a 
guaranteed fundamental right for all, 
contributing to real cultural development for 
everyone. Europe must support mixed and 
non-sexist public educational systems that:
	permit the social and cultural 
emancipation of all and breaks free of our 
society's inegalitarian schema; the educational 
system must support social inclusion and avoid 
social selection. It must not create 
discrimination based on origins, on social 
classes, or physical abilities or gender. 
School-children from immigrant families, those 
suffering from physical handicaps or persons who 
suffer social exclusion must all be integrated in 
the regular educational system and not be 
separated through the existence of different 
educational trajectories.


	promote the active participation of 
school-children during their studies as well as 
respect the different learning time needed by 
each child to succeed.
	Develop a critical spirit and exclude all forms of proselytizing.
	Education must guarantee students', 
teachers' and researchers' complete independence 
in what is taught and the research they conduct, 
and must not be constrained by the logic of 
short-term utility. Research must receive 
sufficient public funding to carry out its tasks 
(the production and dissemination of knowledge, 
training and, via research, expertise).
Health is a right
- The health-care system must be public, free and 
available to all. It must respect the physical 
and psychological integrity of citizens and the 
health-care personnel.
- All medical personnel and citizens must be 
involved in the institutions that manage the 
health system. The institutions must in 
particular give priority to the active 
participation of citizens in managing the 
health-care system.

For a real right to housing for all
Everyone must be able to have access to real 
housing, thanks to public housing authorities 
that are given the financial and legal resources 
enabling them to promote massive policies of 
construction of social housing and to combat 
speculation in real estate and land prices.  


7.	The right to a sustainable environment

7.  Environment, sustainable production and consumption

The logic of neoliberalism is by its nature 
wasteful and predatory. Today's technologies 
would be able to cover the basic needs of the 
whole humankind. Instead, financial capital 
groups create artificial needs (by subliminal 
advertising) in countries with the buying power, 
thus exploiting human and natural resources 
everywhere. The Third World is the most 
vulnerable, more than 15,000 children die every 
day of hunger and curable diseases. The 
irreversible anthropogenic climate change is the 
most acute danger for the Earth, as well as a 
global social catastrophe.

Vision of a new lifestyle

There is an absolute necessity for Europe to 
change towards a new lifestyle of sustainable 
production and consumption. Saving materials and 
energy, radical change from using fossil fuels to 
renewable resources, severing economic growth 
from the increased transportation of goods, 
assuring chemical and biological safety and 
halting the loss of biodiversity - these are not 
a choice but a necessity.

People's vital interests of people and  health  
must be put above the interests of corporations 
and financial groups repeating endlessly the 
"loss of competitiveness" - which in fact only 
means increasing their already enormous profits. 
European nations should not compete through 
social, economical and environmental dumping but 
work together for the change towards 
sustainability: we have to pass nature and 
society to future generations in a state no worse 
than we inherited from our ancestors.

  The first steps towards this end are: 
internalization of "external costs" (for any use 
of natural resources, polluting and waste 
dumping), environmental tax reform, including the 
Tobin tax, and introducing sets of indicators to 
measure sustainability instead of today's single 
indicator, gross national product (GDP), which 
says nothing about the quality of life.

The new sets have to be composed of economic, 
environmental and social indicators (

A new radically different conception of 
development must be adopted: economical in its 
use of natural resources, ecological, respectful 
of the environment, centred on the development of 
human capabilities and respecting cultural 
diversity, protection of the natural environment 
and maritime safety.

Also new forms of mobility should save energy by 
supporting public transport over individual ones, 
giving preference to railways over road and air 
transport as well as avoiding unnecessary 
transport of goods, e.g, by introducing tolls and 
taxing fuels for air and ship transportation. 
Alternative transport must be facilitated through 
a combination of walking and cycling with the 
public transit..

Natural resources, shared assets of humanity.
Natural resources must not become subject to 
intellectual property rights or patents. 
Remaining outside the private and commercial 
domains, they must be managed by public policies 
and involve citizens' participation. They must 
remain beyond the scope of commercial treaties.

	Water is a common asset and access to 
safe drinking water is a fundamental right to 
which all must have access.  Water distribution 
must be provided by public institutions and its 
management must include the participation by 
citizens.

-     Energy consumption must undergo radical 
changes. New choices are required around the 
following principles: increased economies in the 
use of energy, diversification of sources and 
priority to renewable and sustainable resources. 
To economize energy, non-polluting transportation 
must be encouraged and public transportation 
developed.
-    Similarly, the habitat must respect strict ecological norms.
Environmental risks must be factored into public health policies.
Regulations must clearly control polluting 
industries, in particular concerning the 
production and commercialization of chemical 
substances.


Public institutions must guarantee, as a 
fundamental individual right, food that is 
healthy to eat and in sufficient quantity

- In the face of multinational corporations 
exploiting peasants, it is necessary to develop 
and apply public regulations in order to 
discourage their practices. On the contrary, 
support must be provided for non-polluting 
agricultural systems, labour-intensive rather 
than capital-intensive, as well as closed 
distribution circuits. Polluting agricultural 
practices must be discouraged. Production of GM 
products must be prohibited (except in a context 
that is strictly confined to basic research).
	the principle of food sovereignty, that 
is the right to decide one's own agricultural and 
food policies, must be respected for all regions 
of the world and for all countries. The countries 
of Europe therefore have a particular 
responsibility in developing their agricultural 
policies and in their commercial treaties with 
countries in the South. These agricultural and 
commercial policies must take a fundamental new 
direction to respect the principle of food 
sovereignty.


Peace, equality, justice, freedom, democracy, social and fundamental rights!
For another Europe, for another world founded on 
solidarity, a sustainable environment!









-- 
Annick Coupé
Union syndicale SOLIDAIRES
coup at solidaires.org
01 58 39 30 14
06 70 51 39 57
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