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No property right could prevail over the right to life of billions of people, nor is admissible the arrogance by Donald Trump or by any national government in their Hobbesian struggle to get hold of the Covid-19 vaccine before others.
 
There cannot be a new form of “vaccine-claiming sovereignism” established, replacing healthcare solidarity. A vaccine against a virus is a “mankind's good” and, when it will be available, it shall be produced and distributed according to rational and solidarity-oriented criteria, through a European at first and then global cooperation.
 
To this end, several juridical avenues can be used. The international treaties, which the EU too is a party to, provide that a “Compulsory Licensing” and other derogations can be imposed in order to authorize the production up to the necessary quantity and the distribution of a drug also to other factories, besides the patent owner's. And there are ways to remunerate those multi-national companies and governments that did invest much in the research.
 
In the present international dis-order, in the midst of USA-China tensions, delegitimization of multilateral-cooperation organizations, widespread desire of de-globalization and sovereignist impulses, realizing those principles will not be an easy battle. But it is necessary that the European Union, the national governments, firstly Italy, and the European citizens be alert and mobilized in front of the challenge we are faced with.
 
The vaccine will probably be available by the end of the year or beginning of 2021. Without a European (recently four countries met to start discussions on the subject) and then a general agreement on how to produce and distribute it, there is the risk for Europe and the rest of the world of precipitating into a “health war”. Therefore, a Global Accord is needed on the Cofid-19 vaccine, similar to the Paris one on climate change.
 
Such a banner can only be raised by Europe for arriving at a global level. The European Union was born to be something more than a global power among global powers. Is mistaken who thinks to replace national sovereignism with a European sovereignism, in order to snatch from the USA and China the right to be the first to use the vaccine.
 
Already with its initiative “EU global response to coronavirus” Europe took the lead of a world alliance to collect funds for research, which amount today to 9 billion euros.
 
Moreover, at the World Health Assembly of 18-19 May, 2020, the EU proposed to approve, in the WHO resolution on the response to the Coronavirus, the principle that every vaccine shall be considered a “global public good”. That text was approved also by China, leaving the USA even more isolated. Earlier still, 140 leaders and political figures signed the appeal “A popular vaccine against Covid-19”. And both Ms. Von der Leyen and Mr. Macron stated that the vaccine “shall be a world public good”.
 
The European Parliament asked that every research on the vaccine financed by public funds shall remain in the public domain. Now the matter should come soon at the top of the European political agenda and at the center of the discussions of the EU Council in June, together with the Recovery Fund. They are not two separate things: there is no recovery for Europe without a policy of its own on Research, in particular on Life Sciences, and on the connected production issues, but also without relaunching multilateralism and global cooperation.  
 
by Patrizia Toia 
 
News
Appeal to the European Institutions – The Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Western Balkans: towards a European foreign policy
 It is glaringly evident that strategic objectives and clear guidelines for a European foreign and security policy urgently need to be formulated.
The European Union is committed to defining its role and taking action for a new “world order”, focusing on the development of multilateralism as the best way to govern global public goods.
Europe’s neighbouring areas represent the most immediate test for a truly European foreign policy.
This Appeal, starting from Italy, sets out to contribute with opinions and proposals to a broad debate on these issues in Europe.
It has been sent to the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission and to the High Representative for Foreign Policy and European Security....   
2nd United Nations Parliamentary Assembly Model

General aspects

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During the month of September, 2021 the Civil Association “Democracia Global”, along with partner the organizations - “UMA”, “Democracy Without Borders”, “UNPA Campaign” and two Regional Academic Partners - Goa University and Sharda University, carried out the second Model of the Parliamentary Assembly of the United Nations (UNPA) in India on the theme Gender Equality.

Let's Stop the Planet’s Fever Together - Appeal for COP 26

A World Plan for the Environment Health, Immigration and Work

An active role of the European Union

The division of humanity into sovereign nation states prevents global problems, including changes in the climate due to human activity, pandemics and immigration, to be effectively addressed.

The Conference on the Future of Europe is being launched
The recent launch, on 19th April 2021, of the electronic platform supporting the Conference on the Future of Europe (https://futureu.europa.eu/) has marked the start of an event – the Conference itself – which has, on purpose, an open-ended result. On the one hand, it will organize a discussion among European citizens on the direction Europe should take in the next years and decades.
2021: engaging GAAMAC’s community to decode hate speech under a new leadership
Hate speech is a serious indicator along the path that leads towards atrocities and new technologies and social media platforms may serve as amplifiers.
The European Union as the Spearhead of a Global Accord on the Vaccine
No property right could prevail over the right to life of billions of people, nor is admissible the arrogance by Donald Trump or by any national government in their Hobbesian struggle to get hold of the Covid-19 vaccine before others.
Let's stop the Planet’s Fever together
A World Plan for the Environment Health, Immigration and Work - An active role of the European Union.

Carbon Pricing for Carbon Neutrality

The European Citizens Initiative for Carbon Pricing to push the EU Commission for an European climate policy.

 

Events
For a Global Green Deal - Webinar

15 June 2021, 5.30 - 7.00 PM (CET)

For a Global Green Deal

Chair, Daphne Gogou, member of the Executive Bureau of the UEF

Introductory speech, Guido Montani, former President of UEF-Italy

The pre-COP26 of Milan, 30 Sept./2 Oct. 2021, Martina Comparelli, spokesperson of Fridays for Future Italy

The effects of climate change for the African people, Davis Reuben Sekamwa, Fridays for Future Uganda 

Debate

Conclusions, Keith Best, Chair of the Executive Committee of WFM

To participate please connect to the following link:

https://meet.jit.si/UnionOfFederalists

 
CoFoE: Spinelli MEPs and UEF launch Europe-wide network with federalist and pro-European MPs from Member States

“We have taken the first step in the creation of the federalist caucus of national and European parliamentarians who share the view that the Conference on the Future of Europe is an opportunity to transform the EU”, said MEP Brando BENIFEI, President of the Spinelli Group, summing up the more than two hours of open and fruitful debate that took place last Friday with colleagues from Member States. "This was a successful kick-off. I am delighted by the great interest from national parliaments".

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