Ligue Européenne de Coopération Economique

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The Ligue Européenne de Coopération Economique (LECE, English ELEC; German: European League for Economic Cooperation) in Brussels is an international association. The league has consultative status with the Council of Europe and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe . In 1948 she was a founding member of the European Movement .

history

The history of the foundation goes back in part to the activities of Jacques Lacour-Gayet and Daniel Serruys, who organized European economic conferences under the Comité d'Action Economique et Douaniére in the winter of 1945/46. International contacts were established with other people with economic competencies in science and politics. Paul van Zeeland was a close colleague .

On May 16, 1946, the former Belgian Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland and economic friends, including Joseph Retinger , founded the Ligue Indépendante de Coopération de Economique Européenne in Brussels .

Van Zeeland rebuilt the economic league, founded in Brussels in 1946, with the help of Joseph Retinger on March 27, 1947, with Paul-Henri Spaak , Jacques Rueff , Sir Harald Butler and Pieter Kerstens , among others . Van Zeeland took the chair and Retinger became general secretary. Her task was to carry out studies on the economic problems of Europe and a future European Union . It was first named Ligue Indépendante de Coopération Economique in 1948 and was renamed Ligue Européenne de Coopération Economique (LECE) a little later . The LECE took part in the Hague European Congress and was one of the five major European umbrella organizations that became founding members of the European Movement in Brussels on October 25, 1948 .

The (West) German group elected Hermann Josef Abs as its first chairman.

Organization and way of working

The international organization, with its national sections, is a deliberate small, exclusive group of experts whose members consist of business leaders, economists, politicians, industrialists, business people and liberal trade unionists.

The economic league works primarily with national committees, which have extensive autonomy . The same applies to your financial resources and activities. The members come from economic and financial sectors and executives from national and European science and politics are active there. The diversity and independence of the merged business associations mean that the league makes the right suggestions to the European institutions. The league can submit exclusive elaborations for the common European interest in economic matters. The different areas for cooperation are agriculture and society, economic and social affairs, infrastructure and Mediterranean affairs.

literature

  • Frank Niess: The European idea. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-518-12160-X , pp. 149-151, 158.
  • Michel Dumoulin, Anne-Myriam Dutrieue: La Ligue européenne de coopération économique, 1946–1981. A groupe d'étude et de pression in the construction of Europe . Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, 1993, ISBN 3-906750-74-4 ( full text in the Google book search).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.eleclece.eu/en/
  2. Karl Albrecht: The human behind the miracle. 25 years of involvement in German commercial construction. Econ, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-430-11032-7 ; Excerpt from: Reinhard Opitz : European strategies of German capital 1900–1945. Appendix: Transition to the history of the Federal Republic. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-89144-198-3 , p. 1044 on ELEC.