by Jessica Reed at the National UK ECC event
Today not only is the anniversary of the Rome Treaty, it is day two at the ECC event in York. The morning wake up call was, I am sure, hard for those of us who spent a good part of the night debating politics in the pub of York's University, but by 8 o'clock everyone was ready to go for another round of participative experimentation.
A couple of minutes ago Gerrit Rauws, president of the King Baudouin Foundation (the coordinator of the project on the European scale) presented the results of some the other countries' consultations which happened simultaneously over the week-end.
So far, Austria is the only country which openly do not support the use of nuclear power as a source of energy and/or defense. Other countries, like the UK, failed to reach a clear consensus on the question, while others, like Italy, were slightly in favour of nuclear developement.
Sweden had by far the most sophisticated and detailed plan, with an emphasis on global aid (participants think 0,7 percent of the GPE should be allocated to aid so as to promote the spread of democracy).Italy seemed to be preoccupied by the well being of families and its children, who should be entitled to fulfill their potential.
