Sauvons l’Europe is a pro-European and progressive movement. It is committed to building a Europe concerned with social and human development, a democratic space of protection of human rights, an environmental actor in world affairs.
The movement Sauvons l’Europe was created in June 2005 following the rejection by a majority of French voters of the project of Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, on May 29, 2005. It originated in a call from Joel Roman and Jean-Pierre Mignard published in the Nouvel Observateur. The call has raised over 4,000 individual signatures. Among the first signatories are mainly politicians (Elizabeth Guigou, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Olivier Duhamel, Harlem Désir, ...), trade unions and associative representatives, intellectuals of the pro-European left-wing.
Sauvons l’Europe also brings together member organizations, like the CFDT. The first founding meetings of the movement took place on October 1 and 2, 2005 in Rennes.
– To promote and defend the political, economic and social union of European citizens gathered in the framework of the Treaties of the European Unio
– To help the formation of a broad movement of European citizens within civil society as expressed in the founding call in July 2005,
– To promote a Europe which respects human values, the ecological balance of the planet and is more generally concerned with a sustainable and active solidarity between the various continents.
– To promote the highest efficiency of all movements, associations, foundations, clubs, and communities in France and within the European Union that share its objectives.
– To ensure close coordination of its activities with other associations with similar objectives in other Member States.
– Advocacy activities and dissemination of calls.
– Questioning of candidates to national and European elections on European issues that affect their level of competence, to develop the political debate on European policies.
– Organisation of meetings, debates, seminars, etc..
– A decentralized movement, composed of local collectives – the most visible is that of Ile-de-France. Since the dissolution of the national association in February 2010, only remain local collectives.
– A movement that was created in response to the French “no” and that seeks to restore citizens’ interest and liking for Europe, by promoting a “europrogressisme”.
– A decidedly pro-EU movement (against an intergovernmental vision), denouncing both the technocratic Europe and the selfishness of Nations.
