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PACE has given itself the mission to contribute to the creation of a European integrated political area.

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PACE has given itself the mission to contribute to the creation of a European integrated political area ; in other words, to the development within the European Union of a 5th Freedom: the free movement of political ideas which are today prisoners of national frames (i.e. political parties) and national intellectual concepts.
Given the weight taken by European affairs in our daily life (i.e. common legislation, single currency, solidarity policies, competition policy..), and the perspective of further transfers of competences from the Member States to the European Union, in particular as regards budgetary and economic issues, it appears to us indispensable indeed to encourage the setting up of genuine European political parties so that citizens may debate, outside the limits of the national frames, on the main European stakes and decide upon the actions to be undertaken to face them, then bearing these ideas onto the political stage.
That evolution towards a progressive merging of the European political landscape, today broken up into 28 national areas, is an ambitious objective, however necessary to accompany in a democratic manner the coming transfers of sovereignty and then to manage jointly the policies that will stem from them, both in the European Parliament and within a European "Government" (the European Commission) which will be elected by the European Parliament.