FairEurope

FairEurope.eu is an open-source Think-Tank spinoff of European Tribune. Its origin is a reaction to the launch of FreeEurope.eu

Start date: March 16, 2006

Topic: "We need to get our own 10-point EU "constitution" pronto"

Source story: |There's a new meme going around... by Metatone in March 2006

Related resources: EU topic in this wiki

Task: Debate & edit at will


 * Taking a stab at this --- by Migeru on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 02:29:02 AM EDT

Individual people have varied and overlapping allegiances, identities and interests. The European Union recognizes the existance of a European supranational allegiance, identity and interest.

The European Union can only be a free association of States. The right of national and subnational entities to dissociate themselves from the union must be protected.

The European Union offers to its member states and their subnational entities

1.	Cooperation: an avenue to pursue the common good

2.	Subsidiarity: a guarantee that issues will be addressed, at the level (supranational, national, subnational) most effective in each particular instance

3.	Solidarity: a commitment to helping national and subnational entities in need

The European Union offers to its citizens

1.	Rights: A space where human dignity, freedom, equality, pluralism, tolerance, justice and solidarity are respected by enforcing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and non-discrimination

2.	Empowerment: freedoms must not only be guaranteed, but the Union must help overcome obstacles to exercising them

3.	Solidarity: the prosperity of the EU must be judged by how those less prosperous are doing

4.	Democracy: the union must be run by the people, for the people, according to democratic principles.

The European Union offers to the rest of the world:

1.	Non-expansionism: states must not be coerced into associating with or joining the union

2.	Cooperation: the union must work for the global common good and act as an honest broker in conflicts among others

3.	Solidarity: the union must offer help to those outside it, and give help when asked

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I stumbled across the FDR speech tonight, some good lines:

Equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work. Security for those who need it. The ending of special privilege for the few. The preservation of civil liberties for all.

Metatone