Bulgarian MEP Kovachev Elected Vice-President of Union of European Federalists

MEP Andrei Kovachev, head of the Bulgarian delegation in the
European People's Party (EPP) group at the European Parliament,
was elected Sunday Vice-President of the Union of European
Federalists (UEF), the information service at the EPP/GERB
group in Parliament said.

Kovachev was elected as part of the new leadership at the 12th
Congress of UEF - the first time a Bulgarian is elected to such
a position in the oldest and most prestigeous pro-European
organisation. The UEF, founded in 1947 is a supranational
political movement dedicated to uniting Europe along federal
lines.

The congress was moderated by UEF President Andrew Duff, with
more than 200 participants including Viviane Reding, Vice
President of the European Commission, and Elmar Brok. The
congress was officially opened by European Parliament president
Jerzy Buzek.

The congress unanimously adopted the theme resolution '"European
Federal Union, Time to Decide". The Union of European
Federalists confirmed its mission as a supranational political
movement committed to the creation of a European federal union.

UEF campaigns for:

1. the creation of an economic government committed to financial
stability, investment, socially and environmentally friendly,
and sustainable growth;

2. the calling of an inter-parliamentary conference to prepare
the revision of the multi-annual financial framework and the
reform of the own resources system;

3. the reform of the electoral procedure of the European
Parliament in time for 2014 including transnational lists;

4. the promotion of a European Citizens' Initiative in favour of
further reforms targeted at deeper integration;

5. the revision and renewal of the Union's enlargement and
neighbourhood strategy;

6. the relaunch of the constitutional process by the European
Parliament with the goal of creating a European federal union,
if necessary involving a core group of states.

7. a coordinated action of all pro-European associations, in
liaison with the Spinelli Group, to relaunch the process of
European political integration in the perspective of 2014.

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