MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
21 July 2003
by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Uma Aaltonen, Nuala Ahern, Sylviane Ainardi, Bent Hindrup Andersen, Jan Andersson, Anne André-Léonard, Ole Andreasen, Pedro Aparicio, Danielle Auroi, Richard Balfe, Alexandros Baltas, Mary Banotti, Enrique Baron Crespo, Luis Berenguer Fuster, Pervenche Bérès, Jean-Louis Bernié, Fausto Bertinotti, Johanna Boogerd-Quaak, Enrico Boselli, Yasmine Boudjenah, Alima Boumediene, David Bowe, André Brie, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Niels Busk, Yves Butel, Antonio Campos, Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Carlos Carnero, Maria Carrilho, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Gérard Caudron, Giorgio Celli, Alexandro Cercas, Carmen Cerdeira, Ozan Ceyhun, Nick Clegg, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Richard Corbett, Dorette Corbey, Thierry Cornillet, Armando Cossutta, Danielle Darras, Chris Davies, Willy Declercq, Jean-Maurice Dehousse, Véronique De Keyser, Alexander De Roo, Proinsias De Rossa, Harlem Désir, Jan Dhaene, Rosa Diez Gonzalez, Giuseppe Di Lello, Den Dover, Avril Doyle, Olivier Duhamel, Barbara Dührkop, Lone Dybkjaer, R. Mercedes Echerer, Marianne Eriksson, Alain Esclopé, Harald Ettl, Jillian Evans, Göran Färm, Giovanni Claudio Fava, Anne Ferreira, Christel Fiebiger, Hélène Flautre, Colette Flesch, Glyn Ford, Pernille Frahm, Geneviève Fraisse, Monica Frassoni, Jean-Claude Fruteau, Per Gahrton, Georges Garot, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Marie-Hélène Gillig, Robert Goebbels, Laura Gonzalez, Willi Görlach, Koldo Gorostiaga, Lissy Gröner, Catherine Guy-Quint, Gerhard Hager, Jutta Haug, Philippe Herzog, Mary Honeyball, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Renzo Imbeni, Marie-Anne Isler-Béguin, Juan Izquierdo Collado, Maria Izquierdo Rojo, Anne Jensen, Pierre Jonckheer, Karin Jöns, Salvador Jove Peres, Karin Junker, Anna Karamanou, Hans Karlsson, George Katiforis, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Margot Kessler, Glenys Kinnock, Dimitrios Koulourianos, Ole Krarup, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Alain Krivine, Johann Kronberger, Wilfried Kuckelkorn, Carlos Lage, Paul Lannoye, Vincenzo Lavarra, Rolf Linkohr, Alain Lipietz, Caroline Lucas, Sarah Ludford, Torben Lund, Jules Maaten, Neil MacCormick, Patricia McKenna, Edward McMillan-Scott, Eryl McNally, Nelly Maes, Minerva Malliori, Cecilia Malmström, Toine Manders, Lucio Manisco, Thomas Mann, Helmuth Markov, Pedro Marset Campos, Claudio Martelli, Hans-Peter Martin, Miguel Martinez Martinez, Emmanouil Mastorakis, Véronique Mathieu, Miguel Mayol i Raynal, Erik Meijer, José Maria Mendiluce, Emilio Menendez Del Valle, Reinhold Messner, Rosa Miguelez, Joaquim Miranda, Ana Miranda De Lage, Hans Modrow, Enrique Monsonis, Claude Moraes, Luisa Morgantini, Jan Mulder, Rosemarie Müller, Riitta Myller, Sami Nair, Pasqualina Napoletano, William Newton Dunn, Camilo Nogueira, Jean-Thomas Nordmann, Raimon Obiols, Gérard Onesta, Josu Ortuondo, Reino Paasilinna; Elena Paciotti, Mihail Papayannakis, Béatrice Patrie, Marit Paulsen, Fernando Perez Royo, Willi Piecyk, Yves Pietrasanta, Gianni Pittella, Elly Plooij, Bernard Poignant, Jacques Poos, Christa Prets, Alonso Puerta, Christa Randzio-Plath, Michel Raymond, Frédérique Ries, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Michel Rocard, Maria Rodriguez Ramos, Mechtild Rothe, Martine Roure, Giorgio Ruffolo, Heide Rühle, Guido Sacconi, Jean Saint-Josse, Ulla Sandbaek, Yvonne Sandberg-Fries, Manuel dos Santos, Francisca Sauquillo, Gilles Savary, Luciana Sbarbati, Michel Scarbonchi, Anne-Marie Schaffner, Karin Scheele, Herman Schmid, Olle Schmidt, Inger Schörling, [...]
on respect for the principles of religious freedom and the secular nature of the State in the future European Constitution
B5‑0364/2003
Motion for a European Parliament resolution on respect for the principles of religious freedom and the secular nature of the State in the future European Constitution
The European Parliament,
A. whereas religious freedom and the right to change religion and to express religious belief by means of religious worship and association are rights recognised in international, European and national law on human rights and fundamental freedoms,
B. whereas the principles of the secular nature of the State, of the separation and independence of Church and State, of equality and non-discrimination between citizens, and hence between the various religions and churches, are fundamental to democracy and the constitutional State,
C. whereas the European Union unites within its borders citizens of various nationalities, origins, languages, races, religions and beliefs - even more following enlargement - with the common purpose of ensuring peace, progress and prosperity for all,
1. Calls on the Convention and its members, the Council and the national parliaments:
- to ensure that no direct or indirect reference to a specific religion or faith is made in the future European Constitution,
- to guarantee religious freedom and the right to change religion and to express religious belief by means of religious worship and association, as well as the principles of the secular nature of the State and the separation and independence of Church and State.