Newropeans

The political unification of Newropeans involved exclusively in elections to the European Parliament. The name is ( in German about Neuropäer ) from New and Europeans together. In Paris, a preparatory meeting was held in October 2000, the first General Assembly was performed there in June 2006. The association sees itself as a " first trans-European political movement " and represents a pan-European claim. Because the European electoral law does not provide pan-European candidacy, the members in the individual States must endeavor to ballot access.

At the 2009 European election Newropeans first emerged in Germany, France and the Netherlands. In some other states, such as in Italy, admission to the choice could not be reached.

Other members of the Executive Board: Harald Greib (D), Taco Dankers (NL ) Christel Hahn (D ), Bruno Blossier (F), Detlef Winkler ( D ), Maria characters (I). Franck Biancheri (F), founding president of Newropeans, until his death in October 2012 was its honorary president.

History and Structure

In 1985, the Association des Etats Généreaux des Etudiants de l'Europe was founded in Paris in 1988 and init benefits the Erasmus program. A year later came the same students as IDE: Initiative for Democracy in Europe during the first transnational campaign for the European Parliament to. The name Newropean was only at the foundation symposium in October 2000 Newopeans 2000: used New Europe, New Challenges, New Generations in Paris. Since 2003, enter the Newropeans the trans-European Webzine Newropeans Magazine out.

After the referendums in France and the Netherlands to the EU Constitutional Treaty in the summer of 2005, a number of European citizens and the European Students' Association met at the French Franck Biancheri and designed the features of this political movement. Newropeans were founded as a Dutch club and these are today. They see themselves entirely independent of European or national institutions and finance themselves. Solely by membership dues and donations

Program and other important decisions are made by all members via the intranet or the " agoras " ( assemblies ). These are held once a year "somewhere in Europe". The current work is mainly carried out on the selected " Committee of Directeurs ", which is headed by a president. In addition to Germany, France and the Netherlands also in other EU Member States have national coordination groups, such as in Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, Spain and the Czech Republic. In a " dynamic team of volunteer translators " try Newropeans to present their European policy in as many languages ​​of the EU.

Program

Newropeans criticize in their program that the decision-making processes in the European Union are not transparent and dominated by national preferences. You want on the other hand promote trans-European thinking and acting to achieve a community-based Union. For this purpose, inter alia, to the institutions are decentralized outside of Strasbourg, Brussels and Luxembourg, Parliament will in future have a right of legislative initiative and greater impact. In order to strengthen the European identity, they advocate an electoral system under which the Members of the European Parliament are elected in equal parts by national or regional and European lists. It will be built with a common foreign minister, who is directly responsible to the elected parliament an EU government. In addition, the cultural exchange within the EU should be strengthened and training and education are more related to Europe.

The program development of Newropeans to since 2006 based on 16 vertices on both the Intranet discussed at the meeting are members ..

The party combines traditional left receivables, as the integrationist after an immigration policy, as well as more conservative demands, such as a "privileged neighborhood with Turkey " and green claims, such as the prohibition of genetically modified foods.

Elections 2009

For election campaign in 2008 in Frankfurt was not a single listener. Newropeans announced in Germany on an action before the Federal Constitutional Court in order to review the existing 5 -percent hurdle in European elections, which was approved in 1979. The initiative argues, even in local elections, the restrictive clause was repealed because there is no government would determine what applied also to the European elections.

In the election, the party received 15,060 votes nationwide in Germany (0.1% share of the vote ). In the Netherlands, the party received 19,860 votes (0.4% share of the vote ). In France, only 2,549 votes (0.02 %), respectively.