The alliance between the European Parliament and movements for the advancement the process of European integration
Vittorio Agnoletto *
My views on the present and future of the EU are the result of very different experiences with each other developed in the last twenty years, before nell'associazionismo, Then, among the social movements, then in the halls of Parliament.
Dall'associazionismo ...
In the nineties as the president of Lila (Italian League for the fight against AIDS), I coordinated several European research projects to be attended by the principal associations to combat AIDS, and many organizations involved in the civil rights of the then Union of fifteen. I checked Field activity of groups that deal with health, combating drugs, protecting the rights of homosexuals, migrants, prostitutes, I found similarities and common languages \u200b\u200bbut also different practices and some injury.
I spent whole days to convince North European associations that AIDS could not be exclusive to the gay, I have discovered with astonishment the prohibition on drugs in Sweden and I saw my interlocutors in disbelief when he told the Church's interference in the policies Prevention ...
... movement
Since July 2001, Genoa, through the experience of the European Social Forums, the children of the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, until 2004, I lived totally immersed in the anti-neoliberal movements / global justice. Years were spent in an attempt to build networks and European campaigns around social conflicts and disputes: the struggle against military bases in the defense of common goods, the request for reception policies towards migrants in the campaign in favor of the Tobin Tax.
growing awareness that our struggle was necessarily any supranational and continental levels. This awareness coexisted with the consequences of the fierce opposition that all the European left (I refer of course to socialist parties / Social Democrats) had worked in the early nineties against the treaty Maastricht. The Treaty created a stronger European integration basing it on the dominance of finance and economic power of autonomy from politics.
One of the legacies of that battle was, for a short period, widespread indifference towards the European institutions seen as performers or as institutions of capitalist rule unnecessary or, at most, as a platform from which to relaunch the struggles of the movements. There is no doubt that the EU's complex institutional structure and limited powers of the European Parliament are driving this lack of interest. But the growth of the issues brought anti-neoliberal movements soon to come to terms with Community policies: the CAP, the common agricultural policy, trade, by the defense to the internal market directives. The movements were forced to recall knowledge and expertise on the institutional dimension of the European Union. Read the book
Europe 2.0.
Dall'associazionismo ...
In the nineties as the president of Lila (Italian League for the fight against AIDS), I coordinated several European research projects to be attended by the principal associations to combat AIDS, and many organizations involved in the civil rights of the then Union of fifteen. I checked Field activity of groups that deal with health, combating drugs, protecting the rights of homosexuals, migrants, prostitutes, I found similarities and common languages \u200b\u200bbut also different practices and some injury.
I spent whole days to convince North European associations that AIDS could not be exclusive to the gay, I have discovered with astonishment the prohibition on drugs in Sweden and I saw my interlocutors in disbelief when he told the Church's interference in the policies Prevention ...
... movement
Since July 2001, Genoa, through the experience of the European Social Forums, the children of the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, until 2004, I lived totally immersed in the anti-neoliberal movements / global justice. Years were spent in an attempt to build networks and European campaigns around social conflicts and disputes: the struggle against military bases in the defense of common goods, the request for reception policies towards migrants in the campaign in favor of the Tobin Tax.
growing awareness that our struggle was necessarily any supranational and continental levels. This awareness coexisted with the consequences of the fierce opposition that all the European left (I refer of course to socialist parties / Social Democrats) had worked in the early nineties against the treaty Maastricht. The Treaty created a stronger European integration basing it on the dominance of finance and economic power of autonomy from politics.
One of the legacies of that battle was, for a short period, widespread indifference towards the European institutions seen as performers or as institutions of capitalist rule unnecessary or, at most, as a platform from which to relaunch the struggles of the movements. There is no doubt that the EU's complex institutional structure and limited powers of the European Parliament are driving this lack of interest. But the growth of the issues brought anti-neoliberal movements soon to come to terms with Community policies: the CAP, the common agricultural policy, trade, by the defense to the internal market directives. The movements were forced to recall knowledge and expertise on the institutional dimension of the European Union. Read the book
Europe 2.0.
* VITTORIO AGNOLETTO in 1992 founded the Italian League for the Fight against AIDS. In 2001 he was spokesman for the Italian delegation to the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre and the Genoa Social Forum. From 2004 to 2009 is in the MEP group of the European Left. The company has published before AIDS and people. Our arguments against this globalization. Sites: www.vittorioagnoletto.it; www.lila.it, www.forumsocialmundial.org.br.
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