WRITTEN QUESTION E-3194/00 by Philip Bradbourn (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Association of Citizens for the Promotion of European Currency.
Date: 2000-10-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European association, euro, financing, promotion of the European idea

C 163 E/58

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

6.6.2001

As regards Pakistan, regular political dialogue meetings between the Union and Pakistan were suspended
following the military coup last year. However, the subject of the protection of religious minorities was
raised with senior interlocutors in the administration and the Pakistani Government during the Troika(cid:146)s ad
hoc visit in November 1999. The next ad hoc Troika, due to take place at the end of November 2000, will
resume this discussion. Heads of Mission in Islamabad will also continue to raise these issues with the
appropriate interlocutors.

(2001/C 163 E/056)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3194/00

by Philip Bradbourn (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(12 October 2000)

Subject: Association of Citizens for the Promotion of European Currency

Could the Commission please indicate the annual cost to the European Union budget of the Association of
Citizens for the Promotion of European Currency and how many individual members by Member State the
group actually comprises?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(6 December 2000)

The Association of citizens for the promotion of European currency (Promeuro) received € 10 000 on the
1998 budget (B3-306) and nothing on the 1999 and 2000 budgets.

According to Promeuro it has about 120 active members of which 77 pay subscriptions (Belgium 21,
Denmark 2, Germany 6, Spain 5, France 15, Italy 10, Luxembourg 9, Austria 1, Finland 1, United
Kingdom 5 and third country 2).

(2001/C 163 E/057)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3198/00

by Vitaliano Gemelli (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(12 October 2000)

Subject: Violence in Colombia and continual oppression of its rural and indigenous communities

The serious, ten-year internal conflict in Colombia between drug traffickers and the military, with the
occasional backing of the paramilitary, has, over time led to a depopulation of the areas concerned by the
fighting on account of the repeated threats, air attacks, murders and massacres to which the local and
indigenous communities are being subjected. The areas most directly involved are those which,
for
economic and political reasons, are of greater strategic importance and which the combatants have an
interest in owning or controlling.

Furthermore, forced displacement is on the increase: in 1999, 288 000 people were forced to flee their
homes and from 1985 to 1999 over 1 700 000 people were forcibly evacuated.

Can the Commission say whether any aid is being granted to the Colombian Government to tackle

1.
and overcome this grave social instability?

2. What proposals for social stability is the European Union putting forward in Colombia and which
NGOs is it using to do so?

3. What is the Commission(cid:146)s view of the (cid:145)returning communities(cid:146) that are attempting to return people
to their homelands?

4. What is the EU(cid:146)s relationship with the (cid:145)Peace Communities(cid:146) in Colombia and to which projects does
the Commission plan to give financial support in order to promote development and solidarity and protect
communities at risk of displacement?