On 23 May 2006, the Finance Committee of the Austrian Parliament agreed
unanimously to review in Parliament the introduction of international taxes
to finance supranational duties, e.g. the fulfilment of the Millennium
Development Goals of the UN. These taxes are to be introduced on EU level.
The
resulution proposal (in German, pdf 40 kB)
To the debate in the committeea) Burgenland and Vorarlberg
Two more Austrian Federal States support the Global Marshall Plan
Initiative. The parliaments of the Burgenland and of Vorarlberg agreed upon
supporting the Initiative on 29 March and 10 May respectively. There are now
five Austrian Federal States among the Initiative's supporters.
To the four-party proposal for support, Vorarlberg (in German)
To the ÖVP's press release, Burgenland (in German)
b) Thuringia
On 25 April 2006, the Global Marshall Plan regional group Thuringia was
founded in Erfurt. 20 people from different backgrounds came together in
order to advocate jointly the goals of the Initiative in their province.
Their first goal is to make the Federal State of Thuringia supporter of the
Global Marshall Plan Initiative. Thuringia would be the first German Federal
State to officially stand behind the Initiative's goals. As a first step,
the group sent letters to all parliamentary groups as well as Prime Minister
Althaus who already supports the Initiative.
If you would like to receive more information about the group or if you are
interested in cooperation, please write to:
thueringen@globlmarshallplan.orgIn its "Berlin Declaration" the BWA (Federal Association for Business
Promotion and Foreign Trade) calls upon managers of small and medium-sized
enterprises and global coporations to back the German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, host of the 2007 G8 summit. She shall be encouraged in her endavour
to put a more balanced frame for the world economy onto the G8's agenda.
To the
"Berlin Declaration" (in German, pdf, 60 kB)
Like Angela Merkel Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair too called for
a reform of the international institutions in order to react adequately to
the challenges of globalization. In his speech, held at the Georgetown
University (USA) on 26 May 2006, Blair appealed to the community of states
to base their actions on the universal values of freedom, democracy,
tolerance and justice and to create frameworks which allow developing
countries to grow, wealthy countries to maintain their standard of living
and the environment to be protected.
Blair's speech (pdf, kB)
The results of the conference "Civil Society Monitoring the EU Strategy for
Sustainable Development", which took place in Brussels on 5 April 2006, are
now available online. Among the contributions are articles by our supporters
Josef Riegler (EU Strategy for Sustainable Development Needs Global
Structural Framework), Jakob von Uexküll (Building the EU's Global Vision:
The World Future Council Initiative) and Anders Wijkman (Sustainable
Development Needs a Systems Approach: Perspectives for Bottom-Up
Initiatives) in which they present their view points and approaches to the
issue.
The proceedings are available here
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