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Everything is ok with me. But I would like to underline the governance aspect which was at the origin of the CECA Consultative Committee which then became CCMI (but having a broader representation). How to involve people (all age categories) in the process (certainly in an innovative way) to uphold values. I see a line of governance In the first phase employers/trade unions, 2nd phase (CCMI/EESC organised civil society), 3rd phase???? which we have to discuss at the Conference I Think
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Again: It is indispensable for a promising and adequate future of the European Union to forcefully develop democratic and social features that put citizens into a strong position in shaping this future. This certainly requires a lot of imagination and innovative concepts in respect to institutions and processes in a European dimension. The Conference should be the place to debat corresponding proposals. A call for submissions of ideas should prepare the "terrain".
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The 5 scenarios for the future of the European Union, recently presented by the President of the Commission, do not seem to be satisfactory at all. They either need a scenarion #6 "Develop a truly social and democratic Union" - or at least add these two elements prominently to all the proposed options. The CCMI should work on a concept on how to promote innovative, sustainable and people friendly economic/industrial development through improved democraty at european level and the establishment of a true European Social Union.
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Preliminary ideas for a CCMI conference 2017
By Dirk Jarré and Anne-Marie Sigmund
P1
First of all it is important to remember that the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) has been the first ever attempt to experiment an at the same time value-based and practical approach to insure peace through a transnational organisation. To pursue this noble purpose the member states involved had committed themselves to delegate national sovereign rights to a higher level on the grounds of shared responsibilities within a newly created firm legal approach and with ground-breaking political structures and processes. Thus it has been the precursor and the conceptual background of today’s European Union. This unique experiment has not only been highly successful but also found a global admiration for it audacity.
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P2
In this context it has in particular to be noted that the European integration process has been originally initiated and then driven by values and fundamental rights which are, in general, common to human society - to start with the recognition of human dignity to be modulated in the desire to fully make the principles of freedom, equality and solidarity a reality for all. However it seems that these fundamentals have been, in the meantime, somehow pushed into the shadow of attention or even forgotten in relevant decision-making processes.
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After the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty in July 2002 the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) has been created in October 2002 in the framework of the European Economic and Social Committee on the basis of a proposal of the European Commission. This proposal stressed in particular the recognition of 50 years of unique and successful cooperation between economic forces in the ECSC and the usefulness of this experience for a “structured dialogue in a firmly future-based perspective” to assess, anticipate and pre-empt industrial change through an economic, social, territorial and environmental approach. The work of the CCMI should aim at identifying policies and strategies that can promote European integration on the basis of an economically competitive and socially balanced development of European society.
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P4
In 2017 the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change will celebrate its 15 years of existence. This is an excellent opportunity to remember the objectives, values, principles and ideas on the grounds of which the precursor organisation has been created and so constructively operated - to then reflect on how they can be further developed, according to the changes in European society and the challenges it has to address, in order to be successfully implemented in the current and future work of the CCMI and the EESC.
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P5
Such an approach is not only timely but of paramount importance at this point in time when traditional political and strategic concepts of the European Union and its Member States do not any longer achieve the desired results and where the trust of people in the integration objectives is dramatically eroded.
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P6
Globalisation effects, economic disturbances, increasing international tensions, scary scientific and technical developments as well as ideological-political changes deeply and mostly negatively affect people’s perception of the present systems, the prevailing living conditions and their confidence into their own future and the fate of their children and grandchildren. Their longing for fast solutions and simple perspectives may easily put them under the influence of populist, nationalist, neo-fascist, EU negative, generally hostile and often xenophobic movements.
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P7
As the mandate of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change encompasses implicitly societal change - through the intimate interrelationship between business and community - it holds a high responsibility as an advisor for decision makers in many areas and at various levels. This includes the efforts to understand, evaluate and explain the mechanisms of change with its risks and opportunities for society and for individual groupings.
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P8
One of the key issues it has very consciously to tackle with is how to reconcile economic change with social cohesion and to present options that can be widely accepted by European populations. This will only be possible if such options are based on values and principles that have the quality to considerably ease intra-societal tensions by offering generally supported concepts and convictions offering new ways and means for identification and thus can bring the different tendencies, movements and fractions in society under one somewhat common “umbrella”.
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P9
“European Identity” has not to be understood as something firmly achieved and static but rather as a permanent process that may happen at different levels of society where specific values and goals constitute the common good and are maintained over time and through various changes that this society may undergo. In this sense the nature of “European Identity” is similar to the concept of “European Democracy” the principles of which also need close attention, respect and protection.
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P10
The ultimate goal should be to search and argue for concrete proposals that allow and promote “European unity in diversity” with binding fundamental objectives, rights and duties democratically agreed at European level, which then can be implemented by regional and local communities according to their specific conditions on the principle of strong, fair and responsible involvement of civil society in all its forms.
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Only if Europe is able to clearly define its specific values and principles, stemming from its humanistic and enlightened development, it can be the common home of all Europeans and, at the same time, be successful in the present and future ideological global competition of societal systems.
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