Those elected accepted their responsibility as a service to the Mppu, emphasizing – so they wrote to us – that “we move forward together, seeking to be leaders of communion, to make our contribution in response to the enormous challenges facing Europe.  […] We will be able to refer to this Center for matters concerning Europe in its unity, for the relationship with European institutions, for synergies with networks at the European level (in place and to be activated). The new Center does not regulate or enter into the life of the Mppu National Centers that are in Europe.  It will continue to take care of relations with the national centers, the International Center, as a pivot and facilitator of the global Mppu network.

From the letter of Mario Bruno,
President International Center Politics for Unity Movement

THE BIRTH OF THE EUROPEAN MPPU 

We were established in early March, in the very days when, to the 59 wars in the world, the outbreak of war in Ukraine had been added, in the very Europe that seemed to have finally learned that War is not a means to solve international issues. We could not fail to notice the coincidence with the simultaneous emergence of a Politics for Unity Movement group elected to be at the service of the unity of the whole of Europe, from Portugal to the Urals, from Iceland to Cyprus. 

Already from the first meeting we noted with joy the great diversity that characterizes this cohort:

  • Miguel Aguado (Madrid, Spain), a lawyer for a large company in the energy sector, unanimously elected president, after a couple of meetings in which we talked freely among ourselves about priorities and roles; 
  • Marie Blum (Brussels, French nationality), a young professor of economics and management, also unanimously elected co-president; 
  • Maria Chiara Humura, (Rome, born in Rwanda of Italian nationality), a 28-year-old committed UNHCR and intl. center staff. Mppu, general secretary of the group; 
  • Teresa Behl, born in Bauer, (Hamburg, Germany), conflict management training, lecturer in creative writing at the University of Hamburg; 
  • Alexander Simoen, (Brugge, Belgium) master’s degree in international politics, Ambassador for a United World New Humanity ngo, works at COMECE in Brussels; 
  • Michal Siewniak, (Welwyn Garden City, UK, Polish nationality) works in EWurope ngo, organization committed to refugees, city councilor in his city; 
  • Pina Marmo, (Andria, Italy) long political career, for two terms at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe;  
  • Lucia Fronza Crepaz, (Trento, Italy) active citizenship trainer in the School of Social Preparation; 
  • Claudio Del Nobletto, (Rome, Italy), master’s degree in Europlanning, deals with state aid co-financed by European funds; 
  • Elena Possia, a member of the Brussels-based Focolare Progetto Europa, works at the European Commission of the European Union. 

 

Around this constituted center revolves a group of people who have assured us of their cooperation from occasion to occasion, who guarantee us, with their different skills, ages and backgrounds, an additional capacity for insight and action. 

In the dialogue among us, accompanied also by the MPPU International Center, which sees in this group a necessary richness, we have identified some priorities: 

  • knowledge and education about Europe and its institutions (European Community and Council of Europe); 
  • generative collaborations with the principles of unity in European society, both secular and religious; 
  • rediscovery of the spirit of the “1000 Cities for Europe” meeting held in Innsbruck in 2001, to form a network of cities and administrators to weave a peaceful revolution in Europe toward European and global co-governance. 

Mppu Europe Center  

europe@mppu.org