FECL 06 (June 1992):

EVENTS

 

1992 - MEETING OF PLATFORM "FORTRESS EUROPE?" at the 3rd congress of the European Civic Forum,
2 - 9 August 1992, in Limans, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France

Platform "Fortress Europe?" will participate at the 3rd Congress of the European Civic Forum with its own workshop.

Your presence at the workshop will provide you with an opportunity to meet other participants of PFE. Personal contacts "across the borders" are a must for an informal and selfmanaged network like PFE which entirely relies on the will of each of its participants to communicate and to establish lasting working links.

 

Proposals for the workshop

  1. In order to facilitate a common evaluation of European harmonization, you are invited to prepare short synoptical reports on developments in your country in the domains of policing, criminal law and immigration/asylum and their effects on fundamental rights and freedoms. Reference should be made to concrete examples illustrating the practice in your country.
  2. Against the background of minority conflicts, nationalism and restrictive immigration policies: Indivisibility of Human Rights or selective application?
  3. Preventive "crime control" policies in criminal law and policing versus fundamental rights and liberties in the context of European harmonization. Is Europe becoming a "high security" community?

If you wish to present a contribution on one of the above-named points, you are kindly requested to send your paper to Nicholas Busch before 25 July, (in English, German or French, if possible).

Please notify your participation in the PFE workshop to Nicholas Busch (Lindsberg 10, S-791 91 Falun, Sweden, tel/fax:+46 23 43008) and send the registration form (on the last page of the Circular) to the European Civic Forum

 

 

PROGRAM OF THE 3RD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN CIVIC FORUM

  1. "Political" commission

    How should the future Europe be organized?

  2. "History and revisionism" commission

    The celebration of the 5th centenary of the conquest of America: the glorification of colonial adventures as a justification of new ambitions of domination - a manipulation of our collective memory.
    How is the "New World Order" being structured after the Gulf war? How will the "discovery" (conquest) of the East affect the West's relations with the South?

  3. "Training, exchange and cooperation" commission

    Free movement of young people as a precondition for training. The establishment of a network of practical training possibilities for young people from Eastern Europe and the Third World which can be of genuine use in their countries. Such a project is confronted with many problems: visas and other obstacles to mobility, language, work permits, insurance...
    Forms of cooperation between villages, cities and regions in the West, East and South. "Popular tourism" as a way of promoting understanding between peoples. Town/ciuntryside and producer/consumer exchange...

  4. Special workshops on:

    East Germany (the witchhunt against leading oppositionals figures); "Fortress Europe" (PFE); Yugoslavia; Media (with the European Federation of Community Radios, FERL); Provence-Transcarpathia Friendship Association (an example of practical inter-regional East-West cooperation); Local planning, energy and transport (concrete examples); Free movement of youth (with representatives from the European institutions...

For detailed program, write to European Civic Forum

 

 

XXTH ANUUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL, 3-6th September 1992, Padova, Italy
on: CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MINORITIES - Rethinking Social Control in the New Europe

For detailed program and submission of papers write to: Paddy Hillyard, Dept of Social Policy, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristols BS8 ITN, United Kingdom