Brussels, 25/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Before presenting it to the public on Wednesday, the Commission of European Episcopal Conferences (COMECE) presented the Commissioner Pedro Solbes for the European Commission with its report "Global Governance: our responsibility to turn globalisation into an opportunity for all". The report was drafted by an ad hoc group chaired by Michel Camdessus, former Director of the International Monetary Fund, and made up of 13 personalities including Michel Hansenne MEP, the former European Commissioner Peter Sutherland, the former Dutch Finance Minister Onno Ruding, and others. COMECE will be meeting on 22/23 November to decide how the document should be used.
The Camdessus report takes as its starting point the fact that globalisation cannot be reversed, and tries to define criteria for "mastering" it so that all the countries on the planet can profit from it. It believes that the European Union is a unique, convincing example of a governance system based on supranational and multinational co-operation and some of the key elements of the European model should be transferred to the world arena. With this in mind, it recommends setting up a 3G, or Global Governance Group, of heads of state. 3G would be made up of the 24 heads of government currently members of the Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank who fairly represent the whole world, along with the United Nations Secretary General and the director generals of the WTO, the ILO, the IMF, the World Bank and the future World Environment Organisation. In this way, the world would move closer to the idea of a "public authority with universal competence" as recommended by Pope Jean-Paul XXIII.
The Camdessus report bases its recommendations on an analysis of the current set-up and the ways and means of mastering globalisation by introducing the notion of fairness and solidarity on the basis of global consensus on the list of fundamental values and principles that needs to be drawn up.