European Citizen's Stop Extremism Initiative

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European Citizen's Initiative Stop Extremism (proper spelling: STOP EXTREMISM) is a European citizens' initiative that aims to protect all people in the European Union from the negative consequences of extremism - no matter what kind. In order to achieve this protection, Stop Extremism has drawn up a proposal for an anti-extremism directive and submitted it to the European Commission .

The citizens' initiative was founded in spring 2017, registered by the European Commission on June 12, 2017 under the number ECI (2017) 000007 and presented on July 3, 2017 at a joint press conference by the initiators Seyran Ateş , Efgani Dönmez and Sebastian Reimer in Berlin. The association is based in Linz .

By June 12, 2018 - in accordance with the requirements for European citizens' initiatives - one million signatures are to be collected in seven EU member states so that the draft of an anti-extremism directive can become European law.

background

The proposal for an anti-extremism directive is essentially based on the idea that interpersonal trust and education must be protected from extremism because

  • mutual trust leads to prosperity and
  • Education is the best prevention against unemployment.

According to TESAT, Europol's terror trend report , there were 1,002 arrests in 2016 related to extremist crimes. The number of planned, foiled and carried out extremist motivated attacks in Europe was 142, most of them occurred in England (76) and France (23), followed by Italy (17), Spain (10), Greece (6), Germany (5), Belgium (4) and the Netherlands (1). 47 terrorist attacks could not be prevented within the EU during this period and caused great human suffering and great economic damage.

aims

The proposed Anti-Extremism Directive aims to ensure that the mutual trust necessary for the proper functioning of the internal market is maintained and cannot be eradicated by natural or legal persons, companies, non-profit making or other bodies that support extremism . To achieve this, people and institutions that support extremism should not receive any concessions from public funds on the one hand and should present their sources of funding transparently on the other. In addition, special protective measures for employees and family members are to be provided.

The proposed anti-extremism directive

The main importance of Stop Extremism and the proposed Anti-Extremism Directive is that

  • For the first time there is a Europe-wide uniform definition of extremism at the level of secondary law in order to stop the exploitation of interpretative differences (“loopholes”);
  • a Europe-wide warning list to protect schools, kindergartens, authorities, courts and hospitals from extremists is introduced;
  • the definition of extremism - according to the Anti-Extremism Directive - is based on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights , in particular Article 54 thereof;
  • banning extremism funding from abroad;
  • establish an enforceable right to education (or compensation) for family members of extremists;
  • the distribution of extremist content is prohibited;
  • For the first time, a holistic approach to preventing extremism at European level is provided, for example by building a Europe-wide seal of approval (“extremism-free”) for the European internal market .

So far, 47 European citizens' initiatives have been registered by the European Commission . In ten cases, proposals for legal acts were also submitted. The anti-extremism guideline presented by Stop Extremism is 40 pages long in the German language version, which is by far the most extensive submission of a legal act as part of a European citizens' initiative . It builds on existing Union law , such as the General Data Protection Regulation , the Anti-Discrimination Directives or the Framework Decision 2008/913 / JHA on the criminal law fight against certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia, and supplements or extends them. From the anti-discrimination law of the European Union, for example, the reversal of the burden of proof for claims for damages has been adopted. In addition, the claims for damages - z. B. by family members - against extremists are facilitated by the fact that the claim for damages is at least four median salaries , d. H. in the European Union in 2015, an average of around 57,800 euros.

people

The initiators were the Austrian ex-member of the Federal Council Efgani Dönmez , the Berlin author and lawyer Seyran Ateş and the lawyer Sebastian Reimer. Numerous supporters and advocates, such as the human rights activist Saïda Keller-Messahli and the German-Israeli author Ahmad Mansour , could be won for the movement.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Draft on Scribd
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  15. ↑ TESAT 2017
  16. ↑ Art. 5, Paragraph 2 of the proposal for an anti-extremism directive. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
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  18. ↑ Art. 15 of the proposal for an anti-extremism directive. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Art. 16 para. 1 of the proposal for an anti-extremism directive. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  20. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: European citizens' initiative for protection against extremism started . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on November 12, 2017]).
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  23. ↑ Seyran Ateş and Efgani Dönmez want an EU directive on combating extremism. Telepolis , July 12, 2017, accessed November 12, 2017 .
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  28. ↑ Sofie Mulders: Imam Seyran Ates: "He zijn te veel mensen in our religion die akkoord gaan met geweld" . In: De Morgen . ( demorgen.be [accessed November 12, 2017]).
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  30. ↑ Action against foreign terrorist fighters and reaction to the recent terrorist attacks in Europe - Consilium. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
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  33. ↑ Anti-Discrimination Guidelines
  34. ↑ Framework decision 2008/913 / JHA on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia through criminal law
  35. ↑ Median income - Eurostat. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 12, 2017 ; Retrieved November 12, 2017 (UK English).