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From June 17 to 21, 150
Europeans from 40 countries will meet near Peles Castle
(Rumania) to elaborate proposals on Governance, Work, Migration
and the Rural World. On the evening of the 21st, in Trei
Brazi, amid beautiful mountains -- see pictures at images@forums.alliance21.org--
we shall beat the "drums of peace" www.tamtamforpeace.org
to interweave us with the other continental meetings for
a more responsible, plural and united world.
After several months of
remote discussions in 4 thematic electronic forums, we elaborated
a list of themes to deal with in the European Continental
Meeting.
1. Governance. Building
a European public opinion on the identity of European citizenship
and on the autonomous role of civil society. What institutional
form should it take: active subsidiarity, separation of
powers, new forms of direct democracy? What about a common
foreign and defence policy? What should be the political
management of its economy in a globalised world? In the
European constituent process, what is the solution to the
conflict between European rights and the rights of the Nation-States?
Is the welfare state an instrument of democracy in solidarity,
a basis for a European civilisation project?
2. Work. The key question
lies in elaborating alternatives that place economy at the
service of man: employee share-holding; self-employment
with local support; flexible work-time and job security;
minimum basic income for all; protection against the impacts
of globalisation; exchange networks; meaning and use of
leisure time; the role of informal work; consumption as
a factor of pressure on companies to adopt ethical and sustainable
production.
3. Migration: it affects
inter- and intra-national relations; and not only South
/ North. The causes of migrations: a personal or family
decision favoured by the global context, by the economic
and political conditions of the home countries and by the
reception conditions and necessities of the host countries.
What type of codevelopment can be a " remedy"
to migration? Can borders be closed and why should they
be? Is there a lack of manpower in countries with unemployment?
Do the images of immigrants include their contributions,
not only their economic ones? or only the fantasies (invasion,
loss of cultural and national identity.)? Are we moving
toward a multicultural or intercultural society? How can
we live together? What rights should we share? Should rights
depend on residence or on nationality?
4. The Rural World presents
new challenges: the contribution of farmers to a sustainable
Europe but in solidarity with other countries. Beyond agrarian
production, what economic, social and environmental roles
should farmers play? How can these roles be integrated with
sustainable development? On the basis of which principles
should Europe be enlarged to become unified? What model
of integration and what relations should it establish with
the rest of the world? In a few decades, the evolution of
the systems of agricultural production have moved us, in
Europe, from"being afraid of not eating" to "
being afraid of what we eat." The debate on eating
habits it inseparable from health and lifestyle models.
More soon!
Martí Olivella
marti@novacis.org
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