Author: elisabetta63\@libero\.it Date: To: cobas cobas, gigi gigi, Ivana Goldin, Luigino Ciotti, psf psf, forum umbri Subject: [Forumumbri] DA FSE : NATA LA RETE EUROPEA PER I SERVIZI PUBBLICI!
Vi giro messaggio di Bersani di Attac sulla rete europea per i servizi pubblici....da tradurre...
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eli
Care/i, il Forum Sociale Europeo di Atene è stato un appuntamento molto positivo. In particolare, il lavoro sui servizi pubblici che, a partire dalla campagna contro la direttiva Bolkestein, ha costruito un percorso comune tra oltre 40 tra associazioni, organizzazioni sindacali e movimenti sociali che si è concretizzato in sei seminari comuni e un'assemblea conclusiva, in cui si è formalizzata la nascita di una Rete Europea per i Servizi Pubblici con l'approvazione della "Dichiarazione di Atene" e l'avvio di una agenda comune. Come Attac Italia abbiamo partecipato attivamente a questo processo, che è poi stato sancito come uno dei quattro punti qualificanti (insieme a guerra, migranti e precarietà) rispetto a cui i movimenti sociali europei definiranno la propria agenda di mobilitazione.
Di seguito, la "Dichiarazione di Atene" della rete sui servizi pubblici (è in inglese, a presto traduzione in italiano).
Un caro abbraccio.
Marco
ATHENS' STATEMENT
ANOTHER EUROPE WITH PUBLIC SERVICES FOR ALL
BECAUSE common public goods and services are important social elements, in that they constitute an essential tool in social and territorial solidarity, in the redistribution of social wealth, in sustainable society and in the exercise of citizen's rights
BECAUSE with the affirmation of the neo-liberalistic social model in the '80's of the so called "single market construction", public goods and services have been undergoing an offensive aiming at transforming them into economic assets and goods that must obey market rules
BECAUSE public services have long since been under attack at all levels:
a) on a global level, by international trade agreements such as the Gats (General Agreement on Trade of Services), endorsed by member States of the WTO (World Trade Organization). The agreement provides for the liberalization of services, opening up to private investment and "competition" of 160 sectors, among which water, energy, transportation, education and health. Other similar bi- and multilateral agreements between states like the EPAs (Economic partnership agreements) are strenghtening further this logic.
b) at the European level, because of different policies, which are leading directly or indirectly to deregulation and that are promoted by the European treaties, the Lisbon strategy, judgements by the ECJ (European Court of Justice) and various sectoral and crosssectoral directives, among which the Bolkestein directive project is the latest striking exemple.
c) at national level, through the various political welfare reforms and modernisation carried out by the various Governments together with economic choices that favors mostly profit driven enterprises even in the most competitive countries and branches, the promotion of public/private partnerships (PPPS), which threaten public ownership infrastructure and core public services and further tax cuts that are generating erosion of the financial basement of public services.
d) at the regional and local level, by not providing the necessary means to allow citizens and local authorities to decide on their own how public services should be organized.
BECAUSE, the European Union has the obligation to play a role of primary importance in implementing the "European Social Model", in which public services constitute an essential part, in order to fight the roots of global economic and social inequality that are threatening the very survival of the majority of the planet's inhabitants. For that purpose, the EU has to abandon its neoliberalistic policies.
UPON THESE PREMISSES
We, men and women members of associations, trade union organizations, social and political movements, institutional representatives, have committed ourselves to the struggle against the World Trade Organization and the GATS Agreement, to the withdrawal of the Bolkestein Directive project on services and to the directives that go further into liberalizing and privatizing public services.
Knowing that, thanks to the counter power we have been able to exercise, the Bolkestein project has been modified in some of its unacceptable essential aspects. Nevertheless, we consider that most of the "compromise" is still pro-liberalization in a field of services that is crucial to the idea of 'common goods'. For this reason, we will continue to challenge the neoliberal agenda in Europe.
AWARE of the need to bring together our experiences, our knowledge and our struggles to oppose the attacks brought forward by the great political and financial elite, AWARE of the need to amplify social mobilization and to develop proposals to counter neoliberalistic policies, AWARE of the need to relaunch a new public space from the bottom for social rights and labour which are founding and unrenounceable elements in a social Europe and for peace.
WE HAVE DECIDED, at this IV European Social Forum of Athens, to confirm our commitment against the principle of liberalistic and therefore to open a new phase of struggle with the aim of deciding - at both European and National level - the cultural, social and political-institutional conditions for the definition and the regulation of services designated to guaranty universal access to fundamental rights, entrusted by public ownership and administration, and free of whatever form of total or partial liberalization and privatization.
To this aim, we therefore decide:
a) to constitute ourselves into a European network for public services;
b) to launch a campaign for European public services, with objectives and practices commonly decided, set out from a number of unrenouncable characteristics, such as: universality, accessibility, equal access, continuity and quality of service, solidarity, democratic control, social participation, quality employment/labour rights.
Therefore, WE COMMIT OURSELVES :
- to create and develop in each country a National Coordination for public services, open to all organizations and social movements, to political and trade union organizations that share the goals of the present statement, for the defence and for the promotion of public services at local and national level.
- to develop the European Network for public services, based on European convergences of the national coordinations and the different existing networks, which will be a tool to promote and develop initiatives, mobilizations and campaigns.
- to develop alternative policies and strategies for public services.
- to build links through direct support, twinning and seminars/workshops between older, newer and incoming European countries and with developing countries.
WE PROPOSE right away:
a) to pursue our European mobilisation against the Bolkestein directive project;
b) a meeting in GENEVA (27 oct) before the European authorities convention of 28 and 29 of October, to decide a day of European mobilisation, with national demonstrations, and to work on the neo-liberal European agenda and on possible alternative policies;
c) to call for the first European Forum of Social Movements for European public services in 2007.
Athens, 6 may 2006
First adhesions:
European Attac network (Attac France, Attac Italy, Attac Germany, Attac Belgio..)
European public service confederation
ADEDY- Supreme administration of civil servants trade union - Grecia
Confederation of Trade Unions of public sector workers in Turkey
Belgian Social Forum (Attac Vlanderen, Confederation of Christian syndicates, Mouvement Ovrier Chretien, 11.11.11, FGTB-ABVV)
Protect the future/Vedegylet (Ungheria)
Ver.di (Germania)
Foundation Rosa Luxemburg (Germania)
CGT (Francia)
Union Syndacale Solidaires (Francia)
Federation of associations for the defense and promotion of public services (Francia)
FSU (Francia)
IPAM-AITEC (Francia)
Leicester Social Forum (Inghilterra)
UNISOM (Inghilterra)
Comitato StopBolkestein - Italia (FpCgil, Attac Italia, Cobas etc.)
Seattle to Brussels Network
European Convention of Local Authorities for the promotion of public service (Liegi 2005-Ginevra 2006)
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