WE SIGN HERE
The Greek network Friends of Nature participates in the campaign against
the European Atomic Energy Community EURATOM
To:
1. The Greek government, relevant ministries and state
organisations
2. The political parties, local authorities, trade
unions, the Technical Chamber of Greece, Universities, Colleges, Institutes,
Research Institutes
4. NGOs, Environmental - Ecological Organizations,
Movements and Citizen Initiatives
RESOLUTION
WE DEMAND:
- Greece to stop financing the European Atomic Energy Community EURATOM - EURATOM’s funding under conditions of financial difficulty is a provocation
- The withdrawal of Greece from the Euratom Treaty
- EURATOM to be dissolved.
For a nuclear-free Europe
Greece
without unnecessary financial burdens
For a safe Aegean Sea in a peaceful
Mediterranean
Greece
does not have nuclear power plants. Some moves towards their construction in
the 70s in the wider area of Karystos fortunately were not materialised. However,
despite the fact that our country has no nuclear power plants, she participates
together with another 13 EU countries in the EURATOM Treaty, funding it annually,
even under the present state of severe economic crisis, when the Welfare State
(Public Health, Education and the Protection of unemployed and other vulnerable
social groups) is collapsing.
What is the
objective of the EURATOM Treaty (Article 1): “It shall be the task of the Community to contribute to
the raising of the standard of living in the Member States and to the
development of relations with the other countries by creating the conditions
necessary for the speedy establishment and growth of nuclear industries.”
The Greek network
Friends of Nature, participating in the European campaign launched by the FRIENDS
OF NATURE INTERNATIONAL, together with the undersigned organisations and the
citizens who support actively the campaign demand:
• The immediate dissolution of the EURATOM Treaty
• Or else, the autonomous exit of Greece and other participating EU
Member States from the EURATOM Treaty.
• The immediate termination of Euratom’s funding
Greece
has no reason to participate in the undemocratic and uncontrolled EURATOM
Treaty under which there is no commitment to the implementation of the Aarhus
Convention, which ensures access to information, public participation in
decision making, access to justice on environmental issues.
At a time
when the use of atomic energy is declining worldwide, especially after the
recent "accident" in Fukushima, but also with the particular threat
to our country from the construction of nuclear power plants at Akkuyu and Sinopi
in Turkey, we consider the request for the dissolution of the EURATOM Treaty or
the independent exit of Greece a realistic and necessary political action for
economic, ecological and geopolitical reasons.
We invite
organisations, institutes, the universities of the country, the peace movement,
action groups and NGOs which have been involved in lengthy struggles to protect
the environment against nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, to sign the
resolution for the immediate termination of financing Euratom and for the independent
exit of Greece from it, with the perspective of the Treaty’s final dissolution.
Particularly
we call on vulnerable social groups affected by unemployment, insecurity and
the erosion of the welfare state to support with their participation the
Friends of Nature campaign.
We call the
government, the political parties, the local government, trade unions to take a
clear political position by adopting the resolution.
The Greek network
FRIENDS OF NATURE participates in the campaign launched by the world environmental
organization FRIENDS OF NATURE and supported by well known international
agencies.
(In addition we
recommend that you sign the European Resolution
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