Restart Europe Now!

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Restart Europe Now! is a political initiative. It was launched in January 2016 by people from politics, science and civil society. Your political orientation is progressive and pro-European.

history

The think tank was founded in response to a manifesto published in October 2015 that Gesine Schwan and several other people published in Zeit-online. In it, the authors complained about the state of the European Union and the crisis policy of the federal government composed of the SPD and CDU / CSU. The German dominance in Europe and the way in which the euro-member country Greece was dealt with in the debt crisis that has persisted since 2010 were particularly sharply criticized .

Idea and goals

With the establishment of Restart Europe Now! this criticism should be institutionalized in the form of an initiative. Their orientation is pro-European and non-partisan. The supporters from the SPD, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen and DIE LINKE come mainly from the left-wing party spectrum in Germany, or are non-party.

It is committed to the idea of ​​the European unification process, but calls for greater solidarity between the member states when aligning EU policy. The German federal government is given a key analytical role. The supply-oriented austerity policy largely implemented by the German government in the European debt crisis is seen as aggravating the crisis. The initiative itself advocates a more demand-oriented investment strategy. B. is to be financed through a joint European government bond.

During the refugee crisis that began in Europe in 2015, the think tank criticized the closure of the Balkan route and the EU-Turkey agreement as incompatible with basic European values. Instead, the initiative called u. a. an EU immigration and border policy and the introduction of a procedure through which EU municipalities can apply for financial EU support for the influx of refugees. In this way, communities z. B. with a negative demographic development the opportunity to take in refugees.

Appeal for founding and support

In a founding appeal, the initiative has been calling for support from citizens since June 2016. The first signatories include: a. Gesine Schwan , Klaus Barthel , Florian von Brunn , Franziska Brantner , Sebastian Dullien , Peter Eigen , Detlev Ganten , Jörg Hafkemeyer , Uwe-Karsten Heye , Reiner Hoffmann , Gustav Horn , Cansel Kiziltepe , Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz , Peter Ruhenstroth-Bauer , Gerhard Schick , Harald Schumann , Angelica Schwall-Düren , Dieter Spöri , Ralf Stegner , Johano Strasser , Axel Troost , Johanna Uekermann , Hans-Jürgen Urban , Antje Vollmer , Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul and Harald Wolf .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIE ZEIT wrests control of Europe from the technocrats
  2. ↑ Essay by Gesine Schwan on the establishment of Restart Europe Now
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland Politicians from the SPD, the Left and the Greens as well as trade unionists and intellectuals want »Restart Europe Now!«
  4. ↑ Greece finally needs light at the end of the tunnel
  5. ↑ A way out of the current European misery in refugee policy
  6. ↑ The DGB Chairman Reiner Hoffmann has signed the appeal "Restart Europe Now! - For a different European policy".
  7. ↑ Call for founding Restart Europe Now!