{"id":1592,"date":"2016-11-26T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:44:34","slug":"no-europe-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/no-europe-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"No to the Europe of Walls: Building Together the European Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We intend to act to make sure that on\u00a0March 25, 2017\u00a0a public space on the future of the Union is opened, in the context of a broader constituent process, involving local and regional communities, social stakeholders and civil society organisations, together with the citizens\u2019 representatives at the national and European level. Democratic Europe will survive if its citizens will foster its change. For all these reasons, we commit to involve citizens, territories, and movements in a resounding popular initiative on March 25, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Transeuropa 2013 \u2013 Building walls photo by Eurpean Alternatives<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The idea of overcoming the division of Europe between sovereign States was born in the most dramatic moment of the \u201csleep of Reason\u201d, when most of the continent was occupied by the Nazi Army. This idea was summarised in the \u201cVentotene Manifesto\u201d, in which the thought of a Federal State is matched with the action for European democracy, peace, and fight against inequality.<\/p>\n

The European integration process took shape and substance on March 25, 1957 through gradual common achievements. The latter have realised the original idea of European unity only in part, but have simultaneously extended to new policies and countries. For most Europeans, they represent an irreversible movement, and they have developed in an increasing number of citizens a European political conscience as guarantee of peace, rights, and progress.<\/p>\n

This political conscience belongs to us all and we fully identify in the idea that the development of European society and the role of the Union as tool of peace and international cooperation in a globalised world can be guaranteed only through a democratically shared sovereignty. To this original idea are connected values such as human dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity and justice, recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights that bounds the Union and the Member States.<\/p>\n

In the last ten years, the progressive lack of European solutions to problems such as social exclusion, unemployment \u2013 in particular of youth and women \u2013, poverty, and citizens\u2019 safety \u2013 together with economic policies that violated the values recognised in the Charter of fundamental rights \u2013 has created a concrete and shared dissent, a feeling of frustration towards the European Union project. The financial crisis management (of which mainly national governments have been in charge) and the wrongful economic policies of Member States slowed down the investments in the real economy that are necessary to achieve sustainable development and have exacerbated income inequality. The imposition of austerity measures has produced risks for and impoverishment of the European social model, while inclusive policies to foster the creation of a pluralist society have not been implemented.<\/p>\n

National logics prevailed over the search for common interests and the intergovernmental decision making \u2013 the one in which governments alone are entrusted with decisions and that lacks substantial democratic legitimacy \u2013 had paralysing, unequal, and non-transparent effects. Walls have been built using national egoism as bricks; racism and reactionary movements grew in strength, while the dream of a common European home \u2013 that was so close in the night of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell \u2013 risks now to disintegrate.<\/p>\n

The realisation of political unity is the necessary condition to change European policies: to end austerity, to scrap the fiscal compact, to implement European initiatives in the fields of employment, environment and common goods as lever for development, to initiate long term social investments focused in particular on education, culture, training and research, to achieve a \u201cno-carbon\u201d economy together with a harsh fight against climate change, to introduce European loans and mortgages. \u00a0The realisation of political unity is the necessary condition for the creation of a basic income based on citizenship and a European Civil Service, to establish a European insurance scheme against unemployment, a common Asylum and immigration policy endowed with adequate resources and humanitarian channels allowing a safe arrival and the social integration of those escaping from war, hunger and environmental disasters, a unique voice on foreign policy that overcomes the intergovernmental decision-making, a serious plan on development cooperation and aid and a neighborhood policy to build a Mediterranean area of peace, democracy, co-existence, and free movement.<\/p>\n

We are also convinced that it is necessary and urgent to act to allow European citizens to benefit from the value of interdependence and from a shared sovereignty by creating the constitutional conditions to grant them an active role in the decision-making process. We are convinced that it is necessary to take human rights as a starting point, and that the first right is the one to a European democracy where sovereignty belongs to citizens; this, in order to establish a community capable to provide them with those common goods that would otherwise be subjugated to the fight between contrasting national interests.<\/p>\n

For all these reasons, we intend to act to make sure that on March 25, 2017 a public space on the future of the Union is opened, in the context of a broader constituent process, involving local and regional communities, social stakeholders and civil society organisations, together with the citizens\u2019 representatives at the national and European level. Democratic Europe will survive if its citizens will foster its change. For all these reasons, we commit to involve citizens, territories, and movements in a resounding popular initiative on March 25, 2017.<\/p>\n

LIST OF SIGNATORIES<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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1.\u00a0MOVIMENTO EUROPEO-ITALIA<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0ALTERNATIVA EUROPEA<\/div>\n
3.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE DEI GIORNALISTI EUROPEI (AGE)<\/div>\n
4.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE DELLE AGENZIE DELLA DEMOCRAZIA LOCALE\u00a0(ALDA)<\/div>\n
5.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE EUROPEA DEGLI INSEGNANTI (AEDE)<\/div>\n
6.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE EX-COMUNITARI EUROPEI (AIACE)<\/div>\n
7.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI COMUNI E DELLE REGIONI D\u2019EUROPA\u00a0(AICCRE)<\/div>\n
8.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE MONDIALE SCUOLA STRUMENTO DI PACE (E.I.P)<\/div>\n
9.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE DONNE ELETTRICI (ANDE)<\/div>\n
10.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE PUBBLICI CITTADINI<\/div>\n
11.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE UNIVERSITARIA DI STUDI EUROPEI (AUSE)<\/div>\n
12.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONI CRISTIANE LAVORATORI ITALIANI (ACLI)<\/div>\n
13.\u00a0CENTRO EINSTEIN DI STUDI INTERNAZIONALI (CESI)<\/div>\n
14.\u00a0CesUE<\/div>\n
15.\u00a0COLLEGIO NAZIONALE DEGLI AGROTECNICI E DEGLI AGROTE\u00a0CNICI LAUREATI<\/div>\n
16.\u00a0CONFERENZA DEI PRESIDENTI DELLE ASSEMBLEE LEGISLATIVE DELLE REGIONI E DELLE\u00a0PROVINCE AUTONOME<\/div>\n
17.\u00a0FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA DEGLI ENTI E SCUOLE DI ISTRUZIONE E FORMAZIONE (FIDEF)<\/div>\n
18.\u00a0FEDERAZIONE NAZIONALE DEGLI INSEGNANTI (FNISM)<\/div>\n
19.\u00a0FONDAZIONE ROMA EUROPEA<\/div>\n
20.\u00a0FORUM TUNISINO PER LA CITTADINANZA MEDITERRANEA<\/div>\n
21.\u00a0INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (ICLS)<\/div>\n
22.\u00a0ISTITUTO DI STUDI SUL FEDERALISMO E L\u2019UNIT\u00c0 EUROPEA\u00a0PARIDE BACCARINI<\/div>\n
23.\u00a0MOVIMENTO DIFESA DEL CITTADINO (MDC)<\/div>\n
24.\u00a0SINDNOVA<\/div>\n
25.\u00a0SPES \u2013 ASSOCIAZIONE PROMOZIONE E SOLIDARIET\u00c0<\/div>\n
26.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE \u201cPER L\u2019EUROPA DI VENTOTENE\u201d<\/div>\n
27.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE PER I DIRITTI UMANI<\/div>\n
28.\u00a0ASSOCIAZIONE RICREATIVA E CULTURALE ITALIANA (ARCI)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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29.\u00a0BIN ITALIA<\/div>\n
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30.\u00a0CENTRO ITALIANO DI FORMAZIONE EUROPEA (CIFE)<\/div>\n
31.\u00a0CENTRO NAZIONALE PER IL VOLONTARIATO (CNV)<\/div>\n
32.\u00a0CITTADINANZATTIVA<\/div>\n
33.\u00a0COLLEGAMENTO ITALIANO LOTTA POVERT\u00c0 (CILAP)<\/div>\n
34.\u00a0COMITATO newdeal4europe<\/div>\n
35.\u00a0CoNNGI \u2013 COORDINAMENTO NAZIONALE NUOVE GENERAZIONI\u00a0ITALIANE<\/div>\n
36.\u00a0COORDINAMENTO DI INIZIATIVE POPOLARI DI SOLIDARIET\u00c0 \u00a0INTERNAZIONALE (CIPSI)<\/div>\n
37.\u00a0COORDINAMENTO ITALIANO DELLA LOBBY EUROPEA DELLE DONNE\/LEF Italia<\/div>\n
38.\u00a0ERASMUS STUDENT NETWORK (ESN)<\/div>\n
39.\u00a0EUROPA IN MOVIMENTO<\/div>\n
40.\u00a0EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVES<\/div>\n
41.\u00a0FEDERCULTURE<\/div>\n
42.\u00a0FONDAZIONE BRUNO VISENTINI<\/div>\n
43.\u00a0FONDAZIONE LELIO & LISLI BASSO<\/div>\n
44.\u00a0FORUM ITALIANO SULLA DISABILIT\u00c0 (FID)<\/div>\n
45.\u00a0FORUM NAZIONALE DEI GIOVANI<\/div>\n
46.\u00a0GIOVENTU\u2019 FEDERALISTA EUROPEA (GFE)<\/div>\n
47.\u00a0LEGAMBIENTE<\/div>\n
48.\u00a0LIBERTA\u2019 e GIUSTIZIA<\/div>\n
49.\u00a0MAISON DES ASSOCIATION EUROPEEN \u2013 BRUXELLES<\/div>\n
50.\u00a0RETE DELLA PACE<\/div>\n
51.\u00a0TAVOLA DELLA PACE<\/div>\n
52.\u00a0TERRE DES HOMMES<\/div>\n
53.\u00a0UEF \u2013 Belgio<\/div>\n
54.\u00a0UEF \u2013 Francia<\/div>\n
55.\u00a0UEF \u2013 Grecia<\/div>\n
56.\u00a0UEF \u2013 Repubblica Ceca<\/div>\n
57.\u00a0UEF \u2013 Spagna<\/div>\n
58.\u00a0UNIONE FORENSE PER LA TUTELA DEI DIRITTI UMANI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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