EU-toppmötet i Göteborg
Vad hände?
 
Nätverk och politiska plattformar
 
Motkonferenser, dialoger och NGO-fora
 
Demonstrationer och aktioner
 
Analyser, rapporter och böcker
 
Förberedelser och bakgrund
En rapport
 
Nyhetsbrev
 
Göteborgsaktionens hemsida (delvis rekonstruerad)
 
Rättsligt efterspel och demokratiska rättigheter
Demokratinätet
och Föräldranätverket
 

Andra toppmötes-protester 

Program for European Futures Congress
 
(Ur Göteborgsaktionens Nyhetsbrev 26 maj 2001)
 
 
4b European Futures Congress
Invitation to
EUROPEAN FUTURES CONGRESS (VII)
In connection with the Gothenburg EU-Counter Summit June 2001

 

During the dates June 12th till June 17th a broad spectra of organisations
and movements will arrange different kinds of meetings, conferences and events in Gothenburg in connection with the EU-Summit ending the Swedish EU-presidency period.
The European Futures Congress will use the opportunity to join these events but also to arrange some own lectures open for anybody to attend.
Up till now European Futures Congresses have been held in Warsaw 1997, in Budapest 1998, in Prague 1999, in Helsinki in connection with the EU-Summit 1999 and in Bratislava and Ljubljana 2000.
The Congresses have launched a fruitful co-operation between EU-critical as well as peace and environmental movements all over Europe. The co-operation is cross-political and it is aiming at building up and broaden NGO-networks between movements in Western Europe and movements in the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In Helsinki in December 1999 around 75 different organisations from 30 different European countries were represented.

 

ALTERNATIVE I-EUROPEAN FUTURES CONGRESS
June 14th/15th - June 17th/18th, 2001In cooperation with GBG 2001, Free Forum, the Nordic Peoples Parliament and peace movements

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: English

 
June 15th, Friday
European Futures Congress in cooperation with the Nordic Peoples Parliament and Free Forum

FORENOON09.00 - 12.00 at HVITFELDTSKA GYMNASIET, Viktor Rydbergsgatan 9 Opening of the European Futures Congress VII (10 minutes/speaker) - Ulla Klötzer, one of the initiative-takers for the European Futures Congresses, Alternative to EU - Finland, Women for Peace - Finland - Hans Lindqivst, the European Anti-Maastricht Alliance, TEAM, Center No to EU, Sweden

EU Enlargement to Eastern Europe (20 minutes/speaker)

-Jaromir Kohlicek, Member of the Czech Parliament, Communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia
-Jan Kepinski,No to EU, Poland
-Gorazd Drevensek, Group Neutro, Slovenia
-Kalle Pöld, Estonian Independence Party

Discussion

AFTERNOON12.00 - 15.00 at HVITFELDTSKA SKOLAN, Viktor Rydbergsgatan 9 Baltic-Nordic co-operation (20 minutes/speaker)

Sustainable development; environment, economy, trade

-Jonas :Ringqvist, Member of the Swedish Parliament, Left Party
-Kyllike Uusaed, Vitality of Estonia
-Olaf Swolkien, Green Federation Krakow, Poland
-Teuvo Junka, researcher, special field: the social dimension of the Monetary Union, Finland
-Niels I.Meyer, professor of physics, co-author of several books on alternative societal models, including "The Unbearable Unfairness of Globalisation" (2001), Denmark
 
-David C. Korten, world famous writer of the books "The Post-CorporateWorld" and "When Corporations Rule the World", USA (35 minutes speech)
 
Discussion

LATE AFTERNOON 15.30 - 17.30 at FREE FORUM TENT

Big panel debate: EU - Militarisation - Globalisation
Participants from the European Futures Congress:
-Rezso Baynasz, Ambassador, Hungarian Neutrality Foundation
-Normunds Grostins, Movement for Baltic Union, Latvia
-and a lot of other participants from different parts of the
world/Free Forum

EVENING18.00 -

Demonstration against the EU arranged by The Peopleðs Movement No to EU
GBG2001 Assembly on The Schengen Treaty - Fortress Europe
 
June 16th, Saturday
European Futures Congress and the GBG2001 platform

MORNING AND FORENOON:

09.30 Big EU-critical demonstration of the GBG2001 platform open for
organisations that believe in changing the EU from the inside as well as for organisations that are strictly against EU Membership
 
EARLYAFTERNOON
Speakers rally in a big park (Heden)
Themes:
-Fortress Europe - the Schengen Treaty etc
- Social questions - social dismantling, unemployment
- Globalisation - EMU
- Peace - the militarisation of the EU
- Environment - the environmental policy of the EU
 
EARLYAFTERNOON
No to EU - Sweden , Conference at Folkets Hus, room A, Järntorget

 

LATEAFTERNOONANDEVENING
GBG2001 program: Assembly on Solidarity with the Third World, minorities and Eastern Europe - the role of the Nordic countries and Europe

 

June 17th, Sunday
European Futures Congress
FORENOON09.00 - 12.00
Visions for a democratic society(20 minutes/speaker)
-Michael Rellos, Enlightening Movement for Democracy, Greece
-Gerald Häfner, Mehr Demokratie, Member of the German Bundestag,
Germany

 

Referendums (20 minutes/speaker)
-Drude Dahlerup, the June Movement against EU, Denmark
-Patricia McKenna, Member of the European Parliament, Ireland
-Gabriele Wladyka, Aktion EU-Austritt, Austria
Discussion
 
Youth activities
- speakers from different countries
 
Discussion
 
AFTERNOON
14.00 - 17.00
Post-Nizza Challenges and visions for Another Europe (20 minutes/speaker)
-Ida Magli, Italiani Liberi
-Anthony Coughlan, National Platform, Ireland
-Prof. Jean-Paul Bled, Etats Généraux de la Souveraineté Nationale, France
-Thomas Rupp/Roman Huber, Mehr Demokratie, Germany

Discussion

 
EVENING18.30
European Futures Congress Farewell Party together with the Nordic Peoples
Parliament. If the weather is nice it will be an outdoor party with
bonfires, singing etc.

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ALTERNATIVE II

 
SUSTAINABILITY ANDSOLIDARITY CONFERENCE
Combined with the European Futures Congress
June 12th - June 17th/18th, 2001

The Sustainability and Solidarity Conference is arranged by Friends of the Earth Europe, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Sweden in co-operation with different environmental, solidarity, peace, third world movements and trade unions.

Speakers will be invited from the third world and Eastern Europe.

 
June 12th, Tuesday
(Sustainability and Solidarity Conference)
 
EVENINGPROGRAM
How to get rid of the obstacles for a sustainable society?
 
June 13th, Wednesday
(Sustainability and Solidarity Conference)

WHOLEDAY PROGRAM

 
Lectures and workshops on the following themes:
- the Rio Conference and the expectations regarding the World Summit on Sustainable Development
- the sustainable development strategy of the EU
- the EU and Eastern Europe
- the EU and the Third World
- Local Mobilisation and Local Agenda 21
- Current issues such as agriculture, nuclear power, etc
 
EVENINGPROGRAM
Environment Assembly (Friends of the Earth)
 
June 14th, Thursday
(Sustainability and Solidarity Conference)

WHOLEDAYPROGRAM

 
Dialogue with politicians on the theme The Global Responsibility of the EU: - How to challenge the neo-liberal globalization?
- Europe towards a sustainable development

 

EVENINGPROGRAM
Employment Assembly
June 15th - June 17th
please see ALTERNATIVE I
please also note: there are a lot of other events going on in Gothenburg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE EUROPEAN FUTURES CONGRESS Please contact:

 

Ulla Klötzer

Alternative to EU

Makelankatu 62 C, 00530 Helsinki, FINLAND

E.mail: ullaklotzer@yahoo.com

 

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Lea Launokari

Women for Peace

Kaksosmaki 24, 02400 Kirkkonummi, FINLAND

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Gorazd Drevensek

Nova Stranka and Group Neutro

Jarska Cesta 36, 1122 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA

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