[Individual-members-EL] Charter of Principles and the EL

[European Left]

Dear Friends ,

 

Please will find attached the intervention of the EL at the presentation of
the Charter of Principles for another Europe to the European Parliament, on

Thursday, September 20th, 2007, by Christine Mendelsohn. (Fr/engl.). 

 

 

To view the text of the Charter of Principles for Another Europe:
www.europe4all.org

 

in english:   <http://www.europe4all.org/english/englisch/index.php>
http://www.europe4all.org/english/englisch/index.php

in french:  <http://www.europe4all.org/franse/franzusisch/index.php>
http://www.europe4all.org/franse/franzusisch/index.php

 

Best regards,

 

Liberte Gregorio.

 

 

 

On the process of the Charter.

 

The Charter elaborated today is the result of a

two years working with the social movements

belonging to the ESF and the political parties

that wanted to participate. Let us name some

of them: from Italy Fiom, ARCI, CGIL, Transform!

Italy, the Italian Network for the Charter, Partito

della Rifondazione Comunista; from Greece, the

Social Forum, the Nikos Poulantzas Institute,

Synaspismos; from France, SUD, FSU, Solidaires,

the PRS, No VOX, COPERNIC, ATTAC, PCF; from

the Basque country, Askapena; and members

from Hungarian, Romanian and Czech social forums;

European networks such as IFE, the European

Marches, NO VOX, ATTAC, TRANSFORM!,

the European Left Party, Endyl.

 

One of the major challenges to the Network

has been the construction of common alternatives

to Europe, considering this great diversity

of movements but also of countries (of Eastern

Europe, Scandinavia, Turkey, each of them having

a different the concept of Europe).

 

These disagreements may look like obstacles

but that they are also a strength, since they are

the result of vigorous discussions which have

strengthened our resolve to continue with the

process of the Charter.

 

This Charter is a political tool that must enable

the debate to reach the largest number of participants.

This popularisation of the debate has

already begun in Italy, but it remains to be developed

in the other countries.

The Charter is a progressive and permanent

process, and it is also a tool for struggle.

This is a consensual text, and all the actors

are conscious of what is still to be debated. The

dissent is public. The necessity to have a text

that is an alternative to ultraliberal Europe is

recognised by all.

 

Extract from Chantal Delmas' article in Transform Journal.

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