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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:32:57 -0800
- Reply-To: John Martinson <marty@EQUINOX.UNR.EDU>
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- From: John Martinson <marty@EQUINOX.UNR.EDU>
- Subject: Re: The EC, an 'Egoistic Community' only?
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- Aldo de Moor's recent posting aptly expressed what I imagine must be the
- anguish many thoughtful residents of the EC are presently feeling. One has
- to wonder how much of a "community" the EC really is. And if all those
- thinking and feeling Europeans like Aldo have to wait until the
- representatives of their respective national governments take action in
- the Yugoslavian situation, it looks like they (along with all the innocent
- victims of this mindless violence) will wait a long time. So my question
- is this:
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- Is there any non-governmental action Europeans are thinking of taking at
- this time? Could such action be organized? What appropriate form could it
- take? I would hope that more extensive humanitarian aid to victims could
- be undertaken by individual citizens independent of their governments. And
- I suspect it already has, but we in North America learn little about that
- sort of thing from our media.
-
- In any case, it appears that the governments of existing nation states (or
- their collective efforts under a UN umbrella) are unequal to the task. So
- are there any municipalities, city councils, village or town councils that
- perceive themselves members of the EC to the degree that they want to
- respond to the threat to municipalities or towns in Bosnia? In short, is
- there a mayor of a city somewhere in the EC willing to organize his
- governmental unit for an effort to end the violence, in the absence of
- such efforts by his national government?
-
- If there is any such "grass roots" effort going on in the EC, I invite
- netters to tell the rest of us.
-
- John Martinson University of Nevada, Reno
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