The Regional Executive, Emmaus Europe’s executive body
The Regional Executive holds all the powers needed to manage the day-to-day business of Emmaus Europe based on a mandate given by the Regional Council. The Regional Executive reports to the Regional Council.
It meets as often as necessary and at least four times a year. It makes its decisions by absolute majority of the members present.
The board, known as the Regional Council, is in charge of creating the atmosphere, of monitoring and of checking what is done by all the other bodies of Emmaus Europe, including the regional executive committee, the executive body. The regional board meets twice per year and given that the general assembly only meets every four years it is the board which approves both the accounts and the annual activity reports.
The regional board is made up of:
The Chair of Emmaus Europe, a figure elected by the regional assembly
12 Emmaus International board members who are members of both boards – the board of Emmaus Europe and the board of Emmaus International
One national delegate per country for all countries that have a national organisation
Our general assembly, known as the regional assembly, is the highest authority within Emmaus Europe. It has all the necessary powers and competencies to achieve the goals set out for the movement in our Statutes, founding texts and in decisions taken by the General assembly of Emmaus International and by the Regional assembly of Emmaus Europe.
The assembly is always a great opportunity for our members to meet. It takes place every four years in a different location across Europe. It is also an important event in terms of our internal democracy as the European Emmaus groups come together to define the guidelines for our work for the next four years and to elect new board members for the region.
The last assembly took place from 28 to 31 October 2019 in San Sebastian, Spain: see the pictures.
Covid-19 vaccines have finally arrived, but not for everyone…
For individuals to be protected everyone needs to be protected from Covid-19. And yet multinational pharmaceutical companies are putting all of mankind at risk by restricting access to their research, by putting up barriers to more widespread production and by raising the prices of the vaccines. The development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines should not be guided by financial interests but should focus on ensuring that the entire global population has equal access to this form of protection!
This is why Emmaus Europe and Emmaus International have supported the “No Profit on Pandemic” European Citizens’ Initiative. This ECI demands that the European Commission does everything in its power to make anti-pandemic vaccines and treatments a global public good that are freely accessible to everyone. The initiative needs a million signatures from European citizens in order to be successful – add yours to the tally now!
EU citizens have the right to apply directly to the European Commission with a European Citizens’ Initiative in order to propose a concrete legislative amendment. For an initiative to be considered by the Commission, you need to get 1 million people from across the EU to sign it in support. You can find out more about this topic here.
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