GOALS of the European Foundation

CENTRE MAURITS COPPIETERS asbl-vzw (CMC)

According to its general regulations, the Centre Maurits Coppieters asbl-vzw persues the following objectives and references:

- Observing, analysing and contributing to the debate on European public policy issues with a special focus on the role of nationalist and regionalist movements and the process of European integration;

- Serving as framework for national or regional think tanks, political foundations and academics to work together at European level;

- Gather and manage information for scientific purposes on all nationalist and regionalist movements, organisations, structures, …  in all its appearances situated in a European context;

- Making available information to the public on the implementation of the principle of subsidiarity in a context of a Europe of the Regions;

- Promoting scientific research on the functioning and the history of all national and regional movements in the EU and making the results public to as many people as possible;

- Developing actions to open information sources and historical information sources in a structured and controlled way with the aim to build a common data network on issues of Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe.

- Maintaining contacts with all organisations who are active in national movements and with the Institutions of the EU;

The Centre Maurits Coppieters asbl-vzw takes all the necessary actions to promote and achieve the higher stated goals always observing the principles on which the European Union is founded, namely the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law.

The geographical scope of the Centre Maurits Coppieters asbl-vzw is the EU (27 members states) and the candidate members and states in the process of becoming once a candidate member of the EU. The contacts and functioning of the organisation is now based in 3 Member states of the EU, but they are active in 7 regions, stateless nations or constitutional regions. The CMC wishes to enlarge the number of partners in Members states and the number of partners of regions involved in this project.