We celebrate and THANK YOU for your support on our 10th anniversary!!
"It was, it is and it will be in the hands of People, let's unite them and win our Freedom!!"
Manifesto: ‘It was, it is, and it will be in the hands of the people’
For the last 12 years, European grassroot movements for self-determination together with political organisations sharing this same objective, have met and work together on successful initiatives under the umbrella of the International Commission of European Citizens (ICEC).
ICEC conference on “The exercise of Self-Determination in the EU” concludes with the Venice declaration.
Since 2009 ICEC has visited the European Parliament many times. Thanks to the people of the NVA and politicians like Mr. Erik de Foort, ICEC has organised many conferences in such a great public European space.
ICEC took its first steps with the “Consulta sobre la Independència de Catalunya” (popular referendums on Catalan independence) organised by grassroots movement in 555 Catalan municipalities (out of 942) from 2009 to 2011, when Barcelona organised the last one.
The international Commission of the National Coordination for this popular exercise of sovereignity which ment a turning point for Catalan politics, considered necessary to have international observers who could warranty a proper organisation based on good practice ground and protocols.
The process had the participation of 250 international observers, an international network was spountaneusly created, it continued to operate and structured itself. Today it is an international NGO based in Brussels.
During all these years many conferences, political meetings, international media presence, books participation and street activism have been organised by ICEC on a paneuropean level.
In 2013 ICEC promotes an international petition collecting 640.000 signatures demanding European Institutions to warrant the normal exercise of the right to self-determination within the EU. It was followed by an international rally organised in Brussels in March 2013. The aim, to visualise our strong will and clear determination to refuse any threat to any nation ready to vote on a SELFdetermination referendum.
In 2014, ICEC was responsible of 100 international observers for the Catalan "participative process" on 9th of November 2014. Also provided official international observers for the Scottish referendum of September 2014.
On the 9th of December 2015, ICEC organized the first international symposium in the European Parliament on the right of self-determination of the European Nations.
Today ICEC is the most important and structured international organization acting for the normal exercise of the right of self-determination in the EU and became a referent for local and continental institutions with which we cooperate in a constructively path to develop solutions to restore the political sovereignity to European historical Nations.