A group of legal specialists presented a proposal for a regulation to the European Parliament to develop self-determination processes in the EU.
This proposed regulation is the culmination of the document"Bases for the resolution of territorial sovereignty conflicts in the European framework", in which more than 80 specialists with recognized international experience with Eusko Ikaskuntza and the Institut d'Estudis participated. Catalans as promoters, were presented on January 31 at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels.
Its main objective is to guarantee the protection of the rights and freedoms of European citizens based on the impossibility of discriminating on the basis of nationality, as well as the reinforcement of the rule of law and establishing a framework of guarantees that offers all legal certainty for the democratic development of self-determination processes.
The presentation and debate event was organized by the Self-Determination Caucus, and the members Zelai Nikolas, jurist and lawyer of the Basque Parliament, Maite Zelaia, researcher at the UPV/EHU, as well as the member of the Governing Council of Eusko Ikaskuntza Mario Zubiaga, together with Elisenda Casanas, associate director of the Edinburgh Center for Constitutional Law, and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet, professor at the Pompeu Fabra University; together with the team of specialists that has prepared the proposed regulation.
In the second part of the session, the Lehendakari Iigo Urkullu, the president of Catalonia, Pere Aragon s, and the president of the Executive Council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, took the floor, who agreed in estimating that the proposal included in the document It is " A solution for the future".
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