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Brussels, 16.12.2002 Overcoming the Division of Europe EUCDW welcomes the agreement about the accession and financial aid
It is no more than reasonable and sensible that the current member states shall honour their commitments of the past decades and support the integration of the new member states with financial aid packages. This is the only way to export the stability of Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe and to guarantee long-term economic growth, social harmony and peace. We owe it to the generation of 1989 which has actively fought for the eradication of totalitarianism and the triumph of freedom and democracy to provide such a perspective. This commitment binds each and everyone who has enjoyed the privilege of living in freedom and prosperity since the end of WWII - a privilege which was nothing else but the result of drawing the 'long straw' of History. The EUCDW is equally pleased that Malta and Cyprus have joined the EU, extending the Union's southern frontier. The EUCDW is convinced that this enlargement will enrich the cultural identity and the pluralism of the Union to the same extent. The EUCDW strives to create a Europe which is synonymous for equality and social justice and whose guiding principles are solidarity, economic and monetary union as well as social cohesion.
The
European Union of Christian Democratic Workers (EUCDW) consists of 23
workers' organisations from 15 countries and is an association of the
European People's Party (EPP).
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