Click here for Full Issue of Fidelio Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 1999 Rome Conference: Europe 2000 Zepp LaRouche Calls for ‘Council of Europe’ elga Zepp LaRouche, founder of Hthe Schiller Institute internation- ally, was the featured speaker in Rome on May 11 at a conference on “Europe and the Challenge of the Year 2000.” The conference, which was attend- ed by over 80 politicians, diplomats, clerics, journalists, and political activists, was opened by Flaminio Pic- coli, the former General Secretary of the Christian Democracy party, and founder of the new Christian Democ- racy party. “I have known LaRouche for many years,” said Piccoli, “and I EIRNS/Andrew Spannaus advise you to trust his forecasts, Conference speakers (left to right): Jan Lopuszanski, Polish Member of Parliament; Liliana because, from my own experience, in Gorini, Movimento Solidarieta (LaRouche Movement in Italy); Helga Zepp LaRouche; the last ten years they have always Flaminio Piccoli, President, Christian Democracy party. come true. He was prophetic, when he told us that a systemic global crisis was Helga Zepp LaRouche gave an in- tradition of the great Council of Flo- coming, long before the Asian crisis depth analysis of the current economic rence, as a rallying point for people who started, and those of us, like myself, and strategic situation, and indicated the want to shift the direction of Europe. “If who have seen two world wars, know approach which Europe must take in we agree that the future of Europe that he is also right when he says that order to change direction. should not go into war, depression, and there is a danger of war implied in the “The problem,” said Zepp chaos, but that we have to agree . . . on financial disintegration.” Piccoli con- LaRouche, “is that Europe has not had a a New World Economic Order, we cluded by saying, “I came here to give policy since Bush, Thatcher, and Mitter- must combine this with a cultural a signal with my endorsement of rand used the first war against Iraq, the Renaissance.” LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods poli- Gulf war in 1991, to take the momen- In conclusion, Zepp LaRouche said, cy and the Eurasian Land-Bridge per- tum away from Europe.” “We are faced with an incredible dan- spective, knowing very well what this Zepp LaRouche launched a direct ger, the immediate short-term danger of implies.” appeal for a Council of Europe, in the depression, financial collapse, and Eastern Europe Seminars

n early May, the Schiller Institute Iheld seminars in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, which drew high-level government officials, as well as representatives of labor and industry. • The chief event in Poland was held on May 21, and featured the Schiller Institute’s proposal for a Eurasian Land-Bridge as the solution to the current crisis in the Balkans and world economy, presented by Institute representatives Elisabeth Hellenbroich EIRNS and Frank Hahn. More than 60 people Prague press conference (left to right): Prof. Zbynek Pitra (C.M.A.), Michael Liebig and attended, including parliamentarians Angelika Beyreuter-Raimondi (EIR and Schiller Institute), Prof. Jaroslav Jirasek and from various parties. Engineer Ivo Gajdos (C.M.A.). • In Prague, capital of the Czech

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© 1999 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. nuclear war. But I’m convinced that God has made man in such a way that when man is confronted with a great Paris: International Gathering evil, God has given him an even greater power to answer that great evil with an Debates LaRouche Perspective even greater good. I want to invite you to join this effort.” n May 26, more than 150 persons, Other speakers included Professor Oincluding political figures, trade Luciano D’Ulizia, president of the unionists, academics, and diplomatic national union of Italian Cooperatives and media representatives, attended a (UNCI), Jan Lopuszanski, a member of conference in Paris on “The Eurasian the Polish Parliament and representa- Land-Bridge for Peace: France, Catalyst tive of the national Christian Party, between East and West.” Giuseppe De Gori, lawyer for the Civil Among the high points of the Paris Rights Movement-Solidarity move- event, was the reading of a message from ment in the case against George Soros former Mexican President Jose López in Italy, and Alberto Servidio, former Portillo, who recalled his public meeting president of the Cassa del Mezzo- in December 1998, with Helga Zepp giorno, a special banking institution set LaRouche, at the Mexican Society for up to finance the development of Geography and Statistics in Mexico City.

southern Italy. “On that occasion, after listening to EIRNS/Christopher Lewis Many other political, religious, and Doña Helga’s presentation, I comment- Jacques Cheminade, president of French economic figures publicly gave their ed on how important it is that someone political movement “Solidarité et Progrès.” support to the conference. Messages in the world is thinking on behalf of were sent by Roberto Formigoni, presi- everyone, and is opening doors, and that selective exchange controls adopted by dent of the Lombardy Region; Msgr. they enlighten us as to what is happen- Malaysia in September 1998, and Alan de Lastic, Archbishop of New ing, as to what will happen, and as to explained why Malaysian Prime Minis- Delhi and President of the Catholic what can be corrected. I also expressed ter Dr. Mahathir decided to tell the Bishops’ Conference of India; Sandro my wish that, hopefully, her husband I.M.F.: “Enough is enough!” Fontana, former vice-president of the could influence the government of the European Parliament; and Ettore Bern- United States, so that the proposals that Report from Russia abei, former president of the RAI she presented, could, in some way, be Professor Taras Muranivsky, president national television network. Endorse- realized. . . . From afar, I share with of the Schiller Institute in Russia, spoke ments also came from politicians from you the concerns of the moment and, as I next, giving an overview of the process nearly all of the major Italian political stated half a year ago: It is now necessary of destruction of the Russian economy parties. for the world to listen to the wise words since the fall of the Berlin Wall; the of Lyndon LaRouche.” attempts during Yevgeni Primakov’s tenure as Prime Minister to reestablish a Cheminade Keynotes certain economic order; and the propos- Seminars A conference keynote speech by Jacques als of economists such as Sergei Glazyev Cheminade, president of the French and Leonid Abalkin to pave the way for Republic, Michael Liebig of Executive political movement “Solidarité et Pro- a regeneration of Russia’s physical econ- Intelligence Review (EIR) and Angelika grès,” focussed on the need to use the omy. Muranivsky said the way out for Bayreuter-Raimondi of the Schiller reconstruction of the war-torn Balkans Russia lies in the programmatic outlook Institute, attended a May 13 press con- region to catalyze world economic presented by LaRouche, whose ideas ference on the solution to the financial recovery, based on LaRouche’s New enjoy fervent support among the Russ- crisis, which was held jointly with two Bretton Woods monetary program and ian intelligentsia. professors from the Czech Management the Eurasian Land-Bridge. Marivilia Carrasco, president of the Association. About 30 people attended How monetary measures of the type Ibero-American Solidarity Movement in the conference. proposed by LaRouche can function to Mexico, reviewed the I.M.F.’s disman- • In early May, EIR representatives defend national currencies, was illustrat- tling of living standards and production, also travelled to Hungary, where the ed by Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam of and denounced the “bankers’ arith- Schiller Institute seminar in Budapest Malaysia, who, after a 27-year career in metic” which made Latin American drew 60 people, and the representatives the Treasury, where he became Deputy countries pay, between 1980 and 1996, gave five lectures at two universities, Secretary General, is now vice chairman $488 billion in interest on debt, while, at again concentrating on solutions to the of Malaysia’s Business Council. the same time, the overall debt increased economic crisis and Balkans war. Navaratnam briefed the audience on the from $259 to $657 billion.

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