TEAM Working Programme

The TEAM Working Programme for 2003-2004 outlines the general political priorities and tasks which this Annual General Meeting will recommend to the TEAM network for the coming year. The programme functions as guidelines for the TEAM Board. The affiliated organisations may use the programme or parts of it as inspiration for their own work.

EU-related referendums

• Support EU-critics and opponents in the Applicant Countries through information, international support and funding where their referendums are unbalanced and unfair.

• Demand “fair” EU referendums, based on the TEAM statement “International best practice for fair EU referendums” and support similar initiatives by others.

• File complaints to the European Ombudsman when relevant, support and encourage legal action concerning the Commission’s improper intervention in national referendum processes.

• Support the No-side in the Swedish referendum on the euro with information and international contacts.

• Support the No-side in the British referendum on the euro, if it should be held during 2003 and 2004, with information and international contacts.

Constitutional Convention and EU Constitution

• Encourage the formation of a broad political alliance, in the EU Member States and Applicant Countries, against the planned EU Constitution/Constitutional Treaty.

• Expose the threat to national democracy and an equal and democratic European cooperation.

• Demand national referendums on the outcome of the Convention and support initiatives like the European Referendum Campaign.

Alternatives to the EU State

• Stimulate a debate on alternatives to a centralized EU State.

Elections to the European Parliament in 2004

• Provide support for candidates to the European Parliament elections, running for organisations affiliated to TEAM, as the affiliates in each country may see fit.

Adopted at TEAM’s AGM in Tallinn, Estonia, on 30 March 2003.