ABSTRACT: The text of the motion of censure proposed by the radical representatives of the European Federalist Group against the Italian foreign minister Gianni De Michelis in relation to his political attitude on the war under way in ex Yugoslavia, on the recognition of the Republics of Croatia and Slovenia and on the agreement in point of defence stipulated with the British government.

The Chamber of Deputies,

1. deploring the attitude held by the foreign minister, who has played an active role in the development of the E.C.'s ruinous and irresponsible policy towards ex Yugoslavia;

2. deploring the opposition of the foreign minister, also within the E.C., to the recognition of the republics of ex Yugoslavia which have democratically and legally decided their independence, and his support of a position of neutrality between aggressors and victims which has de facto legitimated the intervention of the army carrying out the coup and the occupation of a part of Croatia on the part of Serbian forces;

deploring the attitude of the foreign minister, who has been accessory in the sabotage operated by other E.C. member States against the institution of the European Union and against the attribution of the legitimate powers to the European Parliament, thus thwarting the deliberations adopted by the Italian Parliament;

2. moreover considering that the press has disclosed the existence of an agreement, negotiated by foreign minister Gianni De Michelis, between the Italian government and the British government on matters relating to security and defence in Europe; an agreement of which the foreign minister never informed Parliament;

deploring, from the point of view of the contents, the fact that such Anglo-Italian agreement is in sharp contrast with the guidelines constantly followed by the Italian government, and which the government has more than once pledged to respect before Parliament; and that it is not only absolutely inadequate with respect to the evolution of the international and European situation and with respect to the experiences made by the E.C. over the last months, but that it is above all in patent and complete contrast with Italy's guidelines concerning:

- the political Union of Europe;

- the achievement, within the E.C., of a common foreign and

security policy capable of progressively integrating the

defence sphere;

- the role of NATO and the need for its reform - not its

enhancement - in the context of the Conference on Security

and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE);

- the role of the Western European Union (WEU) in the

perspective of its assimilation into the political Union at

the expiry of the Treaty of Brussels of 1988 - and not of

its autonomous role and of its revision in 1998;

deploring, from the point of view of the democratic-parliamentary method, the fact that the foreign minister has caused this bend in Italian foreign policy guidelines without Parliament having expressed its opinion on the matter;

deploring the fact that the Anglo-Italian initiative has widely contributed to increasing the political and institutional confusion in the intergovernmental negotiation for the political, economic and monetary union, in that the British government has persisted in its refusal of any progress of the E.C. in the direction of an enhancement of its federal characteristics and in that the French and German government have taken advantage of the unusual Anglo-Italian initiative to adopt equally unusual initiatives which Italy - now supporting traditional positions of the British diplomacy - has been carefully kept out of;

moreover deploring the fact that, in the same days in which the joint Anglo-Italian statement was divulged, the foreign minister contributed to thwarting the Dutch draft treaty on political Union which contained essential improvements from the point of view of the democratic reform of E.C. institutions;

and that he returned to the Luxembourgian project, which in June had been judged totally inadequate and in contrast with the guidelines established by the European Council of Rome;

Censuring, therefore, the foreign policy followed to date by the government

Binds the government to radically modify the foreign policy followed to this moment, especially regarding the recognition of the republics of ex Yugoslavia which have democratically and legally proclaimed their independence and the respect of Parliament's deliberations concerning the European Union.

Emma Bonino

Giuseppe Calderisi

Roberto Cicciomessere

Sergio Stanzani

Giovanni Negri

Sandro Tessari

Bruno Zevi