Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe

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The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe ( French Mouvement Socialiste pour les États-Unis d'Europe, MSEUE ) was a socialist umbrella organization for a federal Europe . It was founded in 1947 and was a founding member of the European Movement in 1948. The MSEUE became the Mouvement Gauche Européenne in 1959 and the Social Democratic European Movement in 1971 .

history

In June 1946, in Montrouge , near Paris, the idea of creating an independent European social democracy was born . After the end of World War II , there were many people who believed in the reconstruction of the European continent and who had the idea of ​​a united Europe. The workers' movements and the friends of socialism were the most advanced . The idea came before the European Movement was created.

On June 3, 1947, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe with the name "Comite International pour les États-Unis Socialistes d'Europe" was founded during a meeting of the Independent Labor Party in London. Among the founders were socialists from Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy. André Philip became Chairman and Jacques Robin General Secretary. The second international conference for the socialist United States of Europe took place on July 21 and 22, 1947 in Montrouge. In October 1948, the organization gave itself the name Mouvement Socialiste pour les États-Unis d'Europe (MSEUE).

Independence, democracy, prosperity and peace were the four cornerstones on which the MSEUE based its goals. A united Europe without a German presence and without the participation of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries seemed unimaginable. The European construction should take place with a socialist character.

André Philip was already involved in 1943 when the French politicians in the government-in-exile Charles de Gaulle , Jean Monnet and René Mayer worked out a “plan for Western European integration” . This plan should include a merger of heavy industry ; the war opponent Germany should be one of them. This plan later became the basis for the so-called Schuman Plan of May 9, 1950.

There were national sections of the MSEUE in Belgium, France, West Germany and Italy, the latter under the name Sinistra Europa . After the death of Anna Siemsen in 1951, the German section changed its name to Anna-Siemsen-Kreis and from 1954 published the information sheet Europa der Arbeit . From 1952 to 1958 there was a youth organization called Jeunes du MSEUE . From 1953 the MSEUE published the magazine Gauche Européenne ("European Left"). Its editor-in-chief was the exiled Spaniard Enrique Gironella . The authors included Hermann Brill (Germany), Hubert Clément (Luxembourg), Fernand Dehousse and Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium), Marinus van der Goes van Naters (Netherlands), Gérard Jaquet and André Philip (France) and Mario Zagari (Italy) ).

In 1959, the MSEUE was renamed Mouvement Gauche Européenne (MGE). Its general secretary was the Belgian Raymond Rifflet . In 1971 the movement again took on a new name: Mouvement socialiste européen - Gauche européenne , in German Social Democratic European Movement . Its international president was Lucien Radoux from Belgium, deputy chairman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament . Vice-president was the German member of the Bundestag and European parliamentarian Gerhard Flämig . The organization, made up of individual personalities, gradually lost its importance, while official cooperation between the social democratic parties in the European Community increased. From this cooperation, the Federation of Social Democratic Parties of the European Community was created in 1974 , from which the Social Democratic Party of Europe (SPE) emerged in 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference: data from the European Union ( memento of the original from June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / europa.eu
  2. ^ A b c Mouvement Socialiste pour les Etats-Unis d'Europe Collection
  3. ↑ Résolution adoptee à la deuxième conférence international pour les Etats-Unis d'Europe socialistes (Paris, 21-22 juin 1947)
  4. ↑ The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe. In: Historical Events of the European Integration (1945-2014) , CVCE.eu
  5. ↑ a b c Roger Vancampenhout: Anniversaire: Il ya 70 ans naquit l'UEF , AIACE-be, December 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Norbert Gresch: Between Internationalism and National Assertion of Power - The European Cooperation of the Social Democratic Parties. In: Cooperation of the Parties in Western Europe. On the way to a new political infrastructure? Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1976, pp. 143–249, at p. 167.
  7. ↑ Jean Poorteman: Adieu Lucien. In: Socialisme , 1986, p. 66.
  8. ^ Norbert Gresch: Between Internationalism and National Assertion of Power - The European Cooperation of the Social Democratic Parties. In: Cooperation of the Parties in Western Europe. On the way to a new political infrastructure? Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1976, pp. 143–249, at p. 167.

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