Egon Bondy, real name Zbynek Fiser

Czechoslovakian poet and writer

"The Radical Party is transnational: for this reason it is modern. I appreciate this entity, the Radical Party entity, precisely because I am a citizen of Central Europe, aware of the fact that the great problem to be faced and solved is that of the unification of the European nations. This initiative, like others taken by the Radical Party, looks ahead, to the future.

I am glad that such an organization exists, an organization capable of facing the reality of problems, as in the case of the anti-prohibitionist proposition, or the rights and the needs of the Third World.

It is beautiful for a poet to be among people who face these big problems with honesty and not just empty tattle. Above all, it is important that the existence of the Radical Party be spread to the youth, who could take the basis to face the XXI Century. My work has always been aimed at this: the Radical Party is a pike swimming in a pond full of those lazy carp which European politics is".

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Emil Iovanescu

Opponent of the Ceaucescu regime, activist of the democratic movement "Free Rumania".

"I became acquainted to the activists of the transnational Radical Party during their congress in Budapest. After that we met again several times on the occasion of initiatives for Rumania. I think that the Radical Party, for the achievements in its battles for the freedom and the dignity of the individual, for the rights of mankind not to remain something abstract, for its indefatigable battle to achieve the United States of Europe, can represent a decisive political force to prevent exacerbated nationalisms to cause tragedies in Rumania and elsewhere.

The Radical Party can be a force which, operating from the inside and the outside of my country, can lead it to be reintegrated in Europe. As a Romanian citizen and future citizen of Europe, I consider my place to be naturally inside the transnational Radical party.

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Nadezdha Bogatikova

Member of the Moscow regional Soviet

I joined the Radical Party when I learnt about the political objectives of this party. Especially the battle against the death penalty. I have been concerned with this problem for fifteen years now. Nobody has the right to dispose of the life of another person. Violence abates the price of life itself. The abolition of the death penalty is the only opportunity to avoid this price from being paid.

I am a member of the "Memorial" organization that strives for the protection of human rights, which is also the pivoting point of the of the Radical Party. I consider it my duty to strive for the liberation of people who are in prison for having fought for human rights. In the Soviet Union these rights are not ensured at all. Lastly, I consider the Radical Party's battle for the United Sates of Europe as being the only possibility to solve several of the many problems of Europe.

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Virginio Bettini

Member of the European Parliament, environmentalist

"I had said - at the Radical Congress in Rimini last April - that I would never have joined any party. Then I looked closer at things, especially the commitment of the transnational and antiprohibitionist Radical Party, and I convinced myself that - without making a sensation - the Radicals have offered a consistent contribution to the new phase of democratization of the East, and that they have not turned this into a "sudarium", the way other political forces or movements would have done. The transnational model, which appeared a provocation, is instead the only credible politically organized form.

Antiprohibitionism - together with environmental concern - appears to me as being one of the best things produced in politics. I consider it extremely important to fight against the new authoritarianism based on the persecution of the defenceless individual and on the complicity with drug-traffickers".

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Remo Csok

Civil engineer, member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Alliance of the Free Hungarian Democrats (SzDSz)

I joined the transnational Radical Party because it is the only party having, among its main objectives, the non-violent accomplishment of the United States of Europe, in the sense of an alliance of democratic countries, based on a system of democratic laws, and in this perspectives I am striving for the quickest possible adhesion of Hungary to the E.C. Only in this way the problem of minorities in Europe can be solved. The Radical Party is the only party that, being transnational, is in the condition to contribute to the achievement of these goals.

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Arnold Trebach

Founder of the Drug Policy Foundation

"I became a member of the Radical party as a tangible sign of a U.S. citizen who wanted to protest against the government of his country for the intervention carried out in Panama to arrest Noriega, which I consider a kidnap. I believe that the right place for Noriega to be is jail, however my country has certain laws that it must respect without ever failing to seek non-violent and legal methods.

I am a member of the Radical Party and also of the International Anti-prohibitionist League, for the same reason for which I founded the Drug Policy Foundation: I do not believe in "tough" solutions, I am against violence and in favour of the respect of law".