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European Movement Italy (CIME (Consiglio Italiano del Movimento Europeo) )

Piazza della Libertà, 13
Rome
00198
Italy
Phone : + 39 06 36001705
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http://movimentoeuropeo.it/

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History

  • The Italian Council of the European movement (in Italian Consiglio del Movimento Italiano Europeo) (CIME) is an organization dedicated to consolidating and giving voice to all democratic forces - parties, unions, institutions, organisations and various associations – conscious of the importance for Italy to continue to build the European unit.
  • Open for accession by any organisation in Italy that shares its objectives, CIME promotes different kinds of activities.
  • Its composite structure makes it a major reference for all those institutions that arise at different levels the problem of enlargement of the European public debate, particularly through innovative projects of European political communication.
  • CIME is a founding member of the European Movement International.

Organisation/collective objectives

  • CIME recognizes in existing institutional structures within the European Union, the first embryo of a European federation. It thus supports a decided change of it that would lead to a more “constitutional” reality.
  • It fights for all the reforms that would make the EU able to express its unity on foreign policy and security and achieve real economic and social policy.
  • For this purpose, the Italian Council of the European Movement intends also to defend to the Italian public, and primarily among younger generations, the belief that the creation of a European federation, respecting the national, regional and local autonomy, is vital to the prosperity and true independence of the European peoples.
  • It also promotes the development of new instruments of democratic control at European level that will constitute an indispensable guarantee of the independence of our institutions.

Main activities

  • CIME acts as a coordinating body but also an instrument for proposal, stimulation and pressure to European and national parliaments and governments and international institutions, both independently and through the European Movement International (EMI);
  • It plays a role in the development of the public debate;
  • It carries activities of political and cultural development on international issues
  • It organises awareness and information campaigns to citizens about the Union’s action.

Vision of Europe

  • Europe within the meaning of the message from the Ventotene Manifesto of Altiero Spinelli, a federation between all European democracies willing and able to join in full equality of rights and duties.
  • Only by strengthening the integration between member states, will it be possible for European democracy to endorse a major role in the globalized world and to actively contribute to an international order based on peace and on the promotion of human and citizens’ rights.
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