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José Bové

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José Bové (MEP - EELV) is one of the Green leading candidates for the European Elections in May 2014.

An ecological Europe: the only subversive dream that empowers citizens and protects our planet.

Member of the European Parliament since 2009, I am first of all, a farmer of the world. On the Larzac, where I milked sheep for years, I struggled to save my land against the army. From Seattle to Porto Alegre, with NGOs, I claimed that our world is not for sale! Since 1970, when my opposition to nuclear power started, my life has been guided by ecology. I fought GMO with civil disobedience and ended up in jail, but in the end, we secured their banning. Years of mobilisation forced the French government to ban fracking. With the Greens, I am ready to be one of the 2 leading candidates for 2014 for an ecological Europe, the only subversive dream which empowers citizens and protect our planet.

 

 

José Bové: “Europe is the Arena for Advancing Citizens’ Causes

Candidate’s Statement for the European Greens’ Citizen Primary

Last in Madrid, the European family of Green Parties formally decided to organize an EU-wide primary. All citizens of the European Union – aged sixteen and over – who share and support the values and combat of the Greens will be able to participate. The objective is to elect two people to take on the delicate task of embodying those very values and of ensuring that the policy proposals that stem from them are firmly a part of the European debate. Moreover, while making no illusion about the balance of political forces in Europe, they should also be the Greens’ candidates for the Presidency of the European Commission – should the question arise.

This audacious and pioneering initiative is yet another illustration of the Greens’ political inventiveness and will to lead the “battle of the practices” in an attempt to move forward our somewhat fatigued democracies. Inspired by Portuguese MEP Rui Tavares’s (Greens-EFA) Democratic Pact, the Citizen Primary has already begun to influence the other political groups. Indeed, they have all indicated that they will each put forth their own candidate to the European Commission. Will 2014 mark the end to the diplomatic maneuvering and horse-trading amongst Member States that has thus far been the modus operandi in appointing the President of the European Executive? More importantly, will we finally be able to have a debate on the substance of the issues that will guide European politics and policies over the coming years, and choose amongst ardent nationalism, liberal-conservatism, social-democratic conservatism and the Green alternative?

It is an historic occasion to involve Europeans in defining their Europe. It is a major step in the long and winding path to building a political Europe, one that has garnered responsibility despite its technocratic tendencies; has been legitimized despite the reluctance of the States; and has been mobilized despite the increasing skepticism of its citizens. We need a legitimate and democratic political Europe to claw back from nationalistic temptations the amazing project that is the construction of an area of peace, freedom and prosperity out of the ruins of the past horror of a continent divided and at war. Yet, perhaps more importantly, we need a Europe that can act. We need a continent-wide public power that can give the necessary political responses to the crises that are shaking the foundations of our societies. But, the only action that counts is that which rekindles hope. At a time when entire societies, especially on the periphery, have been brought to the brink, when unemployment is on the rise throughout the E.U., especially amongst our youth, when public finances are under heightened pressure, the majority of European citizens are overcome with a feeling of despair and fear for the future.

Taming the financial markets, committing to the energy transition, fighting climate change, tirelessly defending our freedoms, transforming our agriculture, and establishing true solidarity amongst citizens of Europe are the issues that form our platform and that will mean that citizens will reclaim their sovereignty. That is our idea of “Federal Europe.”

This century’s challenges are global, whether in the area of climate change or nuclear energy, development or common goods, poverty or education, human rights or nature’s rights. No State, no matter how illustrious its past, can go it alone. We are all tired of the circus of summits in Brussels or elsewhere. Watching members of governments unable to cope and prisoners to their own national short-sidedness has lost any comedic value. This “intergovernmental system” in which the Barroso Commission and the Member States have been dealing for far too long is an eloquent illustration of their impotence in the face of crises after crises and of their collusion with the interest groups. We must place the “general interest” back at the heart of all European policies.

The time has come to make a choice. We can choose the weary model that advocates for growth and the vested interests; or the model of nationalism and defense of sovereignty that drove Europe to its historical divisions. As European Greens, it is our duty to offer citizens an alternative that makes a clean break with the past.
Multinationals, tax havens, financial markets, mafia triads…when the powers-that-be play the borders, it is necessary to rise to their level and employ the mobilization of transnational countervailing powers.

Trade Unions, political parties, associations, and citizen groups: the future of our struggle and the power of our leverage lie firmly outside of our national borders. Under the burden of the crisis, our societies are caving to national sentiment and the fear of anything foreign. This populism is rampant both on the right and on the left because when the going gets tough the people turn on each other. Recently, we have witnessed the reappearance of worrying stereotypes in the German press and alarming events in Greece.

The European Greens draw on the vitality of the movement to find the energy needed to combat this resurgence of the dark side of Europe. By building a transnational democracy and by transcending the conventions of our national political culture we are able to find what best resembles us.

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“In a democracy, the defense of the public interest comes before those of a business”, José Bové commented on the newly published report of the non-profit organization GeneWatch. Accordingly, the extent to which foreign companies producing genetically engineered seeds and food have muscled their way in to Government departments, developing a cosy relationship with ministers, is shocking. Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK said “Ministers and officials are not acting in the public interest but colluding with the industry to push ahead with commercial plantings of RoundUp Ready GM crops and undermine EU safety laws.”

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