22 November, 2010
UEF Italy Central Committee launches the organisation of European Citizens’ Conventions in 100 Italian cities
On November 20, the Central Committee of MFE (UEF Italy) met in Rome. The meeting, which was attended by more than 60 delegates, approved several resolutions, in which MFE:
- deplores that the European members of IMF did not exploit the occasion of the reorganization of the Executive Committee for proposing a unified seat for the EU in the institution
- criticizes Obama’s proposal to assign a permanent seat in the UN Security Council to India, instead of affirming the principle that permanent seats should be attributed to regional federations, starting with the EU
- deplores the decision by the Federal Reserve to launch a second round of quantitative easing (QE2), instead of supporting China’s proposal to recur to a basket of currencies instead of the dollar as a reserve currency, which could be a first step towards the creation of an authentic world currency
- expresses its preoccupation for the financial crisis that is putting at risk the very existence of the eurozone, and reaffirms that in order to solve the fatal contradiction of a monetary union without a federal state it is necessary to convoke a Convention endowed with constituent powers – even outside the framework of the current Treaties and among a vanguard of member states, if there shall be no unanimity. This Convention should propose the creation of a fiscal and economic Union alongside EMU, and the transfer of foreign and security policy to the EU level, so completing the transition to the European Federation
- reaffirms its commitment to continue its Campaign for a European Federation (http://wetheeuropeanpeople.eu), and launches the organisation of European Citizens’ Conventions in 100 Italian cities
- expresses its preoccupation for the political stalemate in Italy, and calls on the most responsible political forces in the country to give life to an emergency coalition government in order to deal with the financial crisis and to reaffirm the traditional Italian role in supporting the further unification of Europe
- convokes the 25th National Congress of MFE, which will be held in Gorizia, from March 11 to 13
For those who can read Italian, the integral text of the documents can be retrieved from MFE’s website.