PRAGUE, MAY 10, ARMENPRESS: An international Hlas pro Evropu/Voice for Europe campaign was officially launched on May 9 in Prague. At the same time, the campaign was launched also in Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava and Berlin.
The aim of the Voice for Europe initiative, which shall be running from today until the beginning of September 2005, is to collect at least 1 million of signatures of European citizens who want to make the decision-makers of the European Union hear their opinion. In the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Slovakia, it will be possible to sign a petition to block the opening of the accession talks with Turkey, planned for October 3, 2005. The petition may also be signed in an electronic form or sent by post; it is available at www.voiceforeurope.org.
The organizers firmly believe that Turkey’s accession to the European Union will not contribute to the European integration – on the contrary, it would weaken and complicate the entire process, to an extent which will not be advantageous either for the member states of the European Union or for Turkey itself. “We support the idea of a favored partnership and we caution our politicians against offering full membership to Turkey,” said David Gresak for Czech organizers.
The campaign in the Czech Republic is provided with organizational backup by the Asociace pro evropske hodnoty (Association for European Values) and all participants work for free as volunteers, they are often students and university graduates. “We are citizens of the European Union, we respect European values and we want to participate in the creation of our own future,” added David Gresak
Yorumlar kapatıldı.