[fse-esf] Charter of principles of another Europe

[Franco Russo]

Dear friends,

as you probably know the network of the Charter of principles of another Europe will organize an assembly on 20 September in Brussels about how to continue the process in order to challenge the intergovernmental
decisions concerning the mini-Traty, discussed at the last European Council. On this issue you should already have received a communication on the timetable of the Assembly. I am enclosing it again.

We want to stress two things. First, it is as important as it is urgent to know how many people from the Eastern and Western countries are interested in taking part in the assembly. In fact, we will have some financial support and we have to know the number of participants in order to decide how best to use this not so large fund. If you can write to Chantal Delmas (cdelamas at espaces-marx.org ) and myself (fs.russo at tiscali.it ), we can arrange the list (consulting before, of course, the entire network).
Time is running out, please give us an answer.
Secondly, we are going to organize a meeting of the Charter network at the EPA of Stockholm on Friday 14 September (from 11 am to 5 pm). This meeting is very important to assess definetevely - for this time - the draft of the Charter, which you can read on the Website (www.europe4all.org ), the proposals about the issues and the timetable of the Brussels assembly, and to discuss how to react to the decisions taken by the European Council on the mini-Treaty.

We hope that many people will come to the Stockholm EPA and take part in our meeting.
Thank you for your attention, best wishes

Chantal Delmas- Franco Russo



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

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