From: Marc-Oliver Pahl (info@mopahl.de)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 10:10:42 CEST
Dear all
Some federalist News from Germany:
1.
Yesterday a hearing of civil society took place
at a joint meeting of the EU affairs comittees of
Bundestag and Bundesrat.
Axel Schaefer and me spoke for Europa-Union Deutschland,
David Addae-Schneider-Mensah spoke for JEF-D.
We had much more time to present our oppinion
than in the Convention hearing (around 15 min altogether)
and as the Europa-Union position is less detailed than the
UEF position we also had the opportunity to
speak about some of the innovative UEF ideas.
The idea of the European Council being a
representative collective "Head of the Union" was received with
interest by the MPs. The concept of reforming the Council
by establishing a single Council responsible for legislation
and transforming the other Council formations into
mere preparatory committees was even shared by
the Convention Vice President, Guliano Amato,
speaking at the meeting.
In general all speakers at the Convention and all
members of Bundestag and Bundesrat present
were in favour of
- a election of the Commission president by the EP and
- the executive functions concentrated at the Commission
and against
- any new EU institution involving national parliamentarians
(except for Constitutional ammendments).
So the oppinion of the "Europeans" in
German politics is very federalist!
The JEF/Europa-Union sponsored
Parliamentary Forum European Constitution at the Bundestag might
have helped to come to this consensus.
2.
Yesterday we also arrived at a rejuvenalisation of Europa-Union Berlin
with Gerd Wartenberg (SPD), former Berlin Secretary of State
for EU affairs being elected as new President and Felix Schulz,
former President of JEF-Berlin beeing elected Director.
This means that the UEF regional section in the German
capital will be more dynamic and more federalist than ever before!
federalist wishes
Marc
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