The current leaders of the European Union
prepare a solemn declaration for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty
of Rome, "in which they literally go on the attack," published
"El País" on the front page in its March 9 issue. The justification
places it in "the Brexit -the UK
leaves from where they never really entered! and the arrival of Trump to the
White House". “Europe declares itself “proud to protect its values and
its people"... Therefore, the only thing that comes to their mind, instead
of replacing the ethical compass that guided the founders of Europe... instead
of strengthening a strictly monetary union with a social, political, cultural
and economic union... instead of seeking the urgent reestablishment of an
efficient multilateral System, a United Nations provided with the human,
technical and financial resources that will enable it to urgently recover from the
harm caused by plutocratic groups (G7, G8, G20) in which the Reagan-Thatcher
tandem substituted the United Nations in the 1980s... instead of communicating
to the world at the 60th anniversary that would demand to all Member States to accomplish
with the excellent Charter of Fundamental Rights (2000) ... and that it would
not allow the slightest outbreak of racism, fanaticism, prevalence, xenophobia,
bitter causes of past conflicts ... instead of pursuing a new concept of
security, that would include a magnanimous aid to development (Sustainable
Development Objectives) and the Agreements reached in Paris in December 2015 on
climate change, with the necessary urgency because it
has to deal with potentially irreversible processes that could affect
the intergenerational legacy... instead of placing Europe at the forefront of solidarity
and anticipation... it only occurs to them -"if you want peace prepare the
war"- purchasing more weapons and building more walls.
It is urgent to mobilize people before it
is too late. Now, the time has come for "We, the peoples" so lucidly established
in the first paragraph of the United Nations Charter. The peoples, the people
carrying in their hands the reins of common destiny.
And, the intellectual, scientific and
artistic communities abandoning their ivory towers and standing decisively in
the forefront of the great mobilization in the cyberspace for the big outcries to
face the global challenges with decisions that cannot be postponed.
All together. The time for the European
Union has come to be a catalyst for a world union. From Europe the patterns of
collective behavior which are required for the first time in history must be
disseminated.
Let us raise the voice, for the transition
from force to word. Crime of silence.
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