Η άποψη των Γερμανών Πειρατών για την Ευρώπη.
Δημοσιεύτηκε: 11 Μάιος 2012, 12:15
We, the members of the pirate party Germany, are well aware of the significance of the european unification process for the establishment of peace, freedom, prosperity and constitutional legality on this continent. We do realize, that those achievements are neither self-evident, nor guaranteed. They do require constant defence and definition by the citizens of Europe.
Against this background we see the crisis of the Euro, the ever growing government deficit and the difficulties faced by the European institutions to ensure political and economical stability and social security with great concern. We fear that these problems are shaking the European idea to its very core.
The current form of the European Union fails to allow adequate democratic control by its citizens, and thereby fails to achieve broad backing from the population. At the same time broad parts of national sovereignty are assigned to the EU.Through this development, democracy and together with it, the European unification are endangered to subtly disappear as central cultural achievements.
As part of a transnational political movement, whose sphere of communication knows no national borders, we see ourselves in a special responsibility to ensure the continued existence of the European idea. And to further develope it under especial consideration of the historically based cultural differences. Though we can't and don't want to achieve this alone.
Thus we call upon all European pirates, all European parties and with special emphasis all Europeans in general, to intensely engage questions of the institutional future of Europe. And to place a special attention towards the possibility of a democratic constitutional state, realized through a common constitution. A state that places the citizen in the centre of all its actions - a Europe of the people and the regions.
In the light of the political challenges we face (sustainability of this planets resources, social security and equity, ecology, taxation and fiscal policy as well as digital rights and net policies) which can't be solved adequately on the level of a nation-state. In this light we call on all pirat parties, to construct and improve on the necessary structures to develop and coordinate supranational political positions with widest involvement of all pirate party members.
Against this background we see the crisis of the Euro, the ever growing government deficit and the difficulties faced by the European institutions to ensure political and economical stability and social security with great concern. We fear that these problems are shaking the European idea to its very core.
The current form of the European Union fails to allow adequate democratic control by its citizens, and thereby fails to achieve broad backing from the population. At the same time broad parts of national sovereignty are assigned to the EU.Through this development, democracy and together with it, the European unification are endangered to subtly disappear as central cultural achievements.
As part of a transnational political movement, whose sphere of communication knows no national borders, we see ourselves in a special responsibility to ensure the continued existence of the European idea. And to further develope it under especial consideration of the historically based cultural differences. Though we can't and don't want to achieve this alone.
Thus we call upon all European pirates, all European parties and with special emphasis all Europeans in general, to intensely engage questions of the institutional future of Europe. And to place a special attention towards the possibility of a democratic constitutional state, realized through a common constitution. A state that places the citizen in the centre of all its actions - a Europe of the people and the regions.
In the light of the political challenges we face (sustainability of this planets resources, social security and equity, ecology, taxation and fiscal policy as well as digital rights and net policies) which can't be solved adequately on the level of a nation-state. In this light we call on all pirat parties, to construct and improve on the necessary structures to develop and coordinate supranational political positions with widest involvement of all pirate party members.