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Dear Mr. President,
In the words of Your speech before the European Parliament on October 22, we could recognize the contents of the proposal put forward by the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) “New Deal 4 Europe” www.newdeal4europe.eu, calling for the urgent implementation of a European special Plan for sustainable development and employment.
On that occasion, you declared: “This investment program (€ 300 billion in three years) is very important for me, and the attempts initiated to make me deviate from it will come to nothing”. You also added that the program “cannot be financed by new debt” and that you “intend to present it before Christmas, because we are in a hurry”.
That commitment links the destiny of your mandate to the success of your investment plan that must provide a concrete answer to what the citizens are expecting.
We observe, however, that in your proposed Plan it is not clearly specified where the necessary €300 billion will come from. In the EU budget there is no trace of available resources of such a magnitude. The unused funds of the EU budget and the EIB resources you referred to are an inadequate answer: the former are not sufficient, the latter require a co-financing at the national level, where resources are notoriously scarce. Such a financing system has the same limitations of the Compact for Growth and Jobs of 2012 (€ 120 billions) which remained on paper.
The current dispute over the 2014 still unpaid invoices confirms the governments' inability to take concrete and shared decisions, jeopardizes the financing of expenses essential for the Union and makes the gap between citizens and European institutions even deeper.
The failure of these negotiations and the obligation for the Commission you preside over to present a budget project different from that of the Barroso Commission represent the occasion for including in the 2015 budget the essential elements of a European special investment plan for research, renewable and alternative energies, the green economy, which is founded on Union's new resources and on guaranteed loans.
The social and environmental emergency cannot wait. A Tax on Financial Transactions (TFT), promoted by 11 member-States of the euro-zone, through the mechanism of an enhanced cooperation, represents the short-term answer to the need to make public resources available and to your investment plan take off without necessitating a revision of the Lisbon Treaty, and without waiting for the revision of the multi-annual financial framework.
If those resources will give sustenance to a European special Fund for sustainable development and employment, especially for the young, the embryo of an additional budget for the euro-zone will be created. While, if the TFT revenues go directly to national budgets, the citizens will be presented with umpteen inter-governmental proposals, which do not answer the need to implement a European special plan. A success on this front will create the conditions for widening the EU own resources through euro project bonds and, later, a carbon tax (alternatively, a financial instrument could be created as proposed in the “Blueprint” document of November 2012).
Mr. President, the TFT is the main avenue to finance Your plan with new own resources, and to progress towards a federal budget, which can only come about between the euro-zone countries.
The European Committee promoting the ECI New Deal for Europe
Philippe D.Grosjean
Deputy Representative
Bruxelles, 21 November 2014.
1. The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) New Deal 4 Europe (as per Lisbon Treaty, Art 11.4), calls for the urgent implementation of a European special Plan for sustainable development and employment(see http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/ongoing/details/2014/000002?lg=en and its Annex), financed through European investments amounting to at least € 400 billion. It has been promoted by Committees in many countries of the European Union, Federalist Movements, civil society organizations, trade unions, personalities in the world of culture who have signed a Manifesto in support of the ND4E (Appendix 2), Mayors of important cities who launched an Appeal (Appendix 1), Members of the European Parliament who endorse the ND4E.
Organizations promoting and supporting
the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) “New Deal 4 Europe”
A European special Plan for sustainable development and employment
European Committee
REPRESENTATIVE
Fausto Durante Segretariato Europa Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) -Italia
DEPUTY
Philippe D. Grosjean Forum Permanente della Società Civile - Belgio
MEMBERS
Jean Francis Billion
Unione dei Federalisti Europei (UEF) – Francia
Elena Rodriguez
Unione dei Federalisti Europei (UEF) /Horitzò Europa – Spagna
Ivo Kaplan
Unione dei Federalisti Europei (UEF)–Repubblica Ceca
Nikos Lampropoulos
Unione dei Federalisti Europei (UEF) – Grecia
Giovanni Rastrelli Unione dei Federalisti Europei (UEF) –Lussemburgo
PERSONALITIES WHO SIGNED THE MANIFESTO (Appendix 2)
Michel Aglietta, economista, Università di Parigi
Michel Albert, economista, segretario accademia delle scienze morali e politiche
Enrique Barón Crespo, Presidente Parlamento Europeo
Ulrich Beck, Sociologo e Scrittore
Josep Borrell, già presidente del Parlamento europeo
José Bové, portavoce di Via Campesina, partito verde europeo
Eric Bussière Università Parigi Sorbona
Roger Casale, Cofondatore New Europeans UK
Jean-Marie Cavada, Presidente del Movimento europeo Francese
Mauro Ceruti, Filosofo, università di Bergamo
Don Luigi Ciotti, Fondatore del Gruppo Abele
Daniel Cohn Bendit, scrittore già presidente del partito verde europeo
Gérend Collomb Senatore, Sindaco di Lione
Roberta De Monticelli, Filosofa
Anna Diamantopoulou, presidente centro studi To DiKtio
Jean Baptiste de Foucauld già Commissario al Piano francese
Guillaume Duval redattore Alternative economiques
Matilde Fernández, Università di Madrid
Monica Frassoni, CoPresidente Partito Verde Europeo
Emilio Gabaglio, già Segretario Generale sindacato europeo CES-ETUC
Baldasar Garzon Giurista
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, Prés, Ligue européenne de coopération économique
Sylvie Goulard, saggista europarlamentare ALDE
Ramón Jáuregui, europarlamentare PSE
Ska Keller, europarlamentare, e presidente partito verde europeo
Alain Lamassoure, europarlamentare PPE,
Pascal Lamy, Economista, già direttore generale WTO
Bruno Latour filosofo
Jo Leinen, Presidente del Movimento Europeo Internazionale
Alain Liepietz già vice presidente del Parlamento Europeo
Ken Loach, Regista cinematografico britannico
Henry Malosse, Presidente del Comitato economico sociale e europeo (CESE)
Norbert Mappes-Niediek, Giornalista
Robert Menasse, Scrittore e saggista
Gerhard Mensch, economista Università Humboldt
Yves Mény, presidente Scuola superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
Cristina Narbona, economista, ambasciatrice OCSE
Claus Offe, Sociologo Università di Francoforte
Paul Oriol scrittore
Moni Ovadia, Attore teatrale, drammaturgo, scrittore
John Palmer editorialista The Guardian
Romano Prodi, economista, già presidente Commissione europea
Javier Rojo, Presidente del Senato spagnolo
Pedro Sanchez, economista, Segretario partito socialista spagnolo –PSOE
Ewa Safin-Jacquemart direttrice Green Zone Foundation Poland
Gesine Schwan, presidente Humboldt-Viadrina
Salvatore Settis, Archeologo e storico dell’arte
Dusan Sidjanski, Politologo, Presidente Centro europeo della cultura
Javier Solana già Segretario NATO-Alto rappresentante politica estera e di sicurezza UE
Barbara Spinelli, Giornalista, scrittrice europarlamentare Partito l’Altra Europa
Alexis Tsipras, leader del partito europeo SYRIZA
Tzvetan Todorov, Filosofo, storico e saggista
Guy Verhofstadt, presidente Alleanza Democratici e liberali per l’Europa
Carlos Westendorp, Diplomatico, Segretario Club di Madrid
Promoters of the network “European Mayors for a New Deal 4 Europe” (Appendix 1):
Gérard Collomb, Sindaco della Città di Lione
Piero Fassino, Sindaco della Città di Torino e Presidente Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI)
Lione, Lille
Alghero (SS), Avigliano Umbro (TR), Bastia Umbra (PG), Belforte (MC), Bessude (SS), Bitetto (BA), Bolognetta (PA), Bonnanaro (SS), Bronte (CT), Brisighella, Buggerru (CI), Cagliari (CA), Canal San Bovo (TN), Capiago Intimiamo (CO), Casale Marittimo (PI), Casina (RE), Casola Valsenio, Castel Bolognese, Catania (CT), Cavelnago Brianza (MB), Cerignale (PC), Cisternino (BR), Coreno Ausonio (FR), Delia (CL), Elmas (CA), Faenza, Fai della Paganella (TN), Fano (PU), Fara in Sabina (RI), Fresonara (AL), Frisa (CH), Gallarate, Gerocarne (VV), Gesico (CA), Gibellina (TP), La Maddalena (OT), La Spezia (SP), Lanzo Torinese (TO), Lecco (LC), Levanto (SP), Maierato (VV), Mantova (MN), Marcallo con Casone (MI), Martina Franca (TA), Miglianico (CH), Montalbano Ionico (MT), Monterosso Almo (RG), Monza (MB), Mortara (PV), Nichelino (TO), Niscemi (CL), Noicattaro (BA), Nureci (OR), Nurri (CA), Olevano di Lomellina (PV), Partanna (TP), Pescara (PE), Piedimonte Matese (CE), Pieve a Nievole (PT), Pinzano al Tagliamento (PN), Pisa (PI), Poggiofiorito (CH), Porto Sant'Elpidio (FM), Rapino (CH), Revo' (TN), Rimini (RN), Riolo Terme, Roma (RM), Ruinas (OR), Salemi (TP), SALTRIO (VA), Samatzai (CA), San Stino di Livenza (VE), Sciolze (TO), Sedini (SS), Serra De' Conti (AN), SOLAROLO, Sondrio, Stigliano (RC), Tagliacozzo (AQ), Thiesi (SS), Torino, Torralba (SS), Trapani (TP), Trino (VC), Urbino (PU), Valfenera (AT), Vajont (PN), Valdengo (BI) , Veruno (NO) , Villafranca di Verona (VR), Villaperuccio (CI) , Villata (VC)
Associations and organizations promoting the National Committees for the ECI “New Deal 4 Europe”
MEMBERS OF THE ITALIAN COMMITTEE
Presidente: Paolo Ponzano - Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
Vicepresidente: Michele Consiglio - Associazioni Cristiane Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI)
Coordinatore: Grazia Borgna - Centro Einstein di Studi Internazionali (CESI)
Associazioni Cristiane Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI-FAI), Association Europeénne des Enseignants (AEDE), Associazione Italiana Consiglio Comuni e Regioni d’Europa (AICCRE), Associazione Mazziniana (AMI), Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI), Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana (ARCI), Altramente, Network Europeo di Ricerca e Formazione (ASEGE), BIN-Italia, Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF), Centro Einstein di Studi Internazionali (CESI), Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), Centro Italiano di Formazione Europea (CIFE), Consiglio Italiano del Movimento Europeo (CIME), Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (CISL), European Alternatives, Giovani Federalisti Europei (GFE), Legambiente, Libera-Gruppo Abele di Don Luigi Ciotti, Libertà e Giustizia, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), Syndacat Autonome de Travailleur (SAVT), Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale (SIOI), Sindacato Transfrontaliero Piemonte Arco Lemano, Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL),
MEMBERS OF THE BELGIAN COMMITTEE
Philippe D. Grosjean - Forum Permanent de la Société Civile Européenne),
Roberta Carbone Giovani Federalisti Europei (GFE)
Philippe Bioul, (Ex-fonctionnaire de la Commission européenne), Massimo Gaudina (Association Palombella), Angelo Raffaele Consoli (T.I.R.E.S.-C.E.T.R.I.), Yorik Bonsangue (UEF Belgique), Catherine Vieilledent (UEF Groupe Europe), Vlassios Sfyroeras (Vice-président du syndicat U4U), Mark Dubrulle (Président Club de Rome-Chapitre UE), Bruno Boissière (CIFE), Roger Vancampenhout (Ex-fonctionnaire de la Commission européenne), Vincent Obozinski (Pensée libre pour l'Europe), Jean-Paul Soyer (GRASPE), George Vlandas (Syndicat U4U), Pierre Loubières (Europe Solidaire), Alberto Lampasona (Forum permanent de la Société Civile Européenne), Alessandro Manghisi (Forum permanent de la Société Civile Européenne).
MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH COMMITTEE
Coordinatore: Jean-Francis Billion,
Segretario:Jean-LucPrevel
Organizations:
Action fédéraliste - «Socialisme et Liberté» (Maurice Braud), Association Puissance Europe-Weltmacht Europa (Bernard Barthalay), Europe Ecologie Les Verts Saône-et-Loire - 71 (Carole Bonin et Mourad Laoues), Alternatives européennes / European Alternatives (Elena Dalibot), Associazione Cristiana delle Lavoratori - ACLI France (Raffaele Fiore et Eggle Carpa), Europe Avenir (Jean-Paul Guth), Jeunes Européens France (Chloé Fabre), Jeunes Européens Lyon (Alexandre Lemonon), Le Pacte Civique, Mouvement Européen Pas de Calais (François Vié), Freedom Legality and rights in Europe (FLARE - Délégation en France), Mouvement Européen France (Dominika Rutkowska-Falorni), Presse Fédéraliste (Jean-Luc Prevel), Union des Fédéralistes européens - France (Alain Réguillon), – UEF Rhône-Alpes (Jean-Francis Billion), UEF Nord Pas de Calais (PhilippeDoucet)
Members:
Michel Albert (Président d’honneur UEF France), Florent Banfi (ancien membre du Bureau de la JEF Europe), Michel Boerez (memdre du Conseil syndical Nord Pas de Calais CFDT), Ulrich Bohner (ancien Directeur du Conseil des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de l’Europe), Myriam Cau (Vice-présidente du Conseil régional Nord – Pas de Calais), Fabien Cazenace (ancien Directeur du Taurillon), Yves Clément (Membre du Conseil de la Confédération européenne des syndicats), Jacques Fayette (universitaire honoraire – Modem), Olivier Giscard d’Estaing (Président d’honneur de la Ligue européenne de coopération économique), Jean-Guy Giraud (ancien Directeur du Bureau du Parlement européen à Paris), Pauline Gessant (Présidente JEF Europe), Jean-Pierré Gouzy (ancien président de l’Association européenne des journaliste), Pierre Hémon (adjoint au Maire de Lyon – EELV), Michel Herland (économiste), Philippe Jusselme (Président LECE France), Michèle Lindeperg (ancienne parlementaire européenne – PS), Alain Malégarie (ancien Directeur de l’Institut de l’euro), Laurent Moccozet (Mouvement région Savoie), Paul Oriol (auteur de Résidents étrangers citoyens ! Plaidoyer pour une citoyenneté européenne de résidence), Jean-Marie Petitcollot (membre du Conseil syndical Force Ouvrière Action Sociale du Nord), Robert Toulemon (auteur de Aimer l’Europe), Catherine Vieilledent (membre du Bureau de l’UEF Europe)
MEMBERS OF THE SPANISH COMMITTEE
Domenec Devesa (UEF-Spagna), Oliver Soto (JEF-Spagna),
Elena Rodríguez Espinar (Horitzó Europa - UEF-Spagna), Oliver, Unión General de
Trabajadores (UGT), Ricard Bellera (Comissions Obreres de Catalunya; CCOO CAT), Kolja Bienert (Horitzó Europa), Mesa del tercer social sector, Fundación Catalunya-Europa, Guido Ramellini (Horitzó Europa), Max Vives ((Horitzó Europa), Mónica Clavijo Zarate (European Alternatives), Armando Ferrari (INCA-CGIL Spain), Max Rumignani (Presidente Altraitalia).
MEMBERS OF THE GREEK COMMITTEE
Nikos Lampropoulos UEF-Grecia (Unione Europea dei Federalisti), Petroula Nteledimou (UEF-Grecia), Georgios Psathas (UEF Grecia), Georgios Boskou (Università di Atene) - Dimitris Papasotiriou (Presidente di Cyprus Logistics Association), Maria Xatzidaki (Presidente dell’ONG “Life B Care”), Antonios Zairis (Professore presso la Città Universitaria di New York e giornalista de l’Economist) - Georgios Stamatis (Professore presso la Città Universitaria di New York), Papandreopoulos Thanasis (Associazione dei Giornalisti Europei) - Ilias Xatzilias (Consulente economico), Christos Nikezis (Imprenditore), Georgios Papapavlou (già membro dell’UEF EB), Georgios Papadam (Ingegnere chimico), Ioannis Mazis (Professore di Geopolitica presso l’Università di Atene)
MEMBERS OF THE CZECH COMMITTEE
Ivo Kaplan (già Gruppo Spinelli), Edvard Outrata, (Senatore, Vice-presidente del Movimento Europeo RC), Karel Schwarz (Vice-presidente dell’EAPN già presidente dell’Associazione delle ONG già direttore di Diakonie), Hynek Rehak (Sindaco di Pobezovice), Antonin Homola (Giovani Democratici Cristiani), Pavel Cerny(collaboratore del primo Presidente della ex Cecoslovacchia Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, storico), Jana Simkova (UEF- Repubblica Ceca e membro del Consiglio del Movimento Europeo in Repubblica Ceca, esperta di sviluppo regionale), Jan Solta (Università di Praga), Josef Brecka.
MEMBERS OF THE LUXEMBOURG COMMITTEE
Giuseppe Rastrelli (Corte di Giustizia europea), Alain Calmes (UEF Lussemburgo), Chiara Cipolletta (UEF), Francesco Ferrero (vicesegretario UEF).
MEMBERS OF THE GERMAN COMMITTEE
PresidenteDieter Rügge (Vorsitzender der Europa-Union Detmold, Rechtsanwalt, Vors. Richter i.R., Detmold; stellv. Sprecher), Peter Osten (ehem. europ. Vorsitzender der JEF, Mediator, Verwaltungsrichter i.R., Wernigerode; Sprecher), Emanuele Caminada (Universität Köln),
Guido Barbi (Doktorand, München), Ulrich Bohner (Exekutivdirektor des Kongresses der Gemeinden und Regionen Europas des Europarates i.R., Straßburg), Prof. Dr. Alessandro Cavalli (o. Univ.-Prof. i.R., Genua/Berlin), Michele Fiorillo (Doktorand, Berlin), Dr. Konrad Hummel (Konversionsbeauftragter der Stadt Mannheim),
OTHER GROUPS are forming in Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland.
EUROPE
Alda - Association of Local Democracy Agencies
European Movement International
Plateforme pour une Europe solidaire
EUROPEAN MPs who supported the ND4E during the European electoral campaign
Philippe LAMBERTS, Bart STAES, Mark TARABELLA, Guy VERHOFSTADT (Belgium),
Michael CRAMER, Ska KELLER, Jo LEINEN, Martina MICHELS, Terry REINTKE, Birgit SIPPEL, Gabi ZIMMER (Germany)
Brando BENIFEI, Mercedes BRESSO, Renata BRIANO, Silvia COSTA, Nicola DANTI, Elena GENTILE, Roberto GUALTIERI, Cécile KYENGE, Curzio MALTESE, Alessia MOSCA, Gianni PITTELLA, Elly SCHLEIN, Renato SORU, Barbara SPINELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Patrizia TOIA (Italy)
Pervenche BERES, José BOVE, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Karima DELLI, Jean-Paul DENANOT, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Pascal DURAND, Sylvie GOULARD, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Yannick JADOT, Eva JOLY, Alain LAMASSOURE, Vincent PEILLON, Michèle RIVASI (France)
Nessa CHILDERS (Ireland)
Ramón JAREGUI ATONDO (Spain)
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