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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, 2001

In 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