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Founded in 1972, the European Organisation of Military Associations is an umbrella organisation of 32 military associations and trade unions in Europe. United, EUROMIL’s member associations promote the social and professional interests of about 500.000 Europeans in 24 countries, servicemen of all ranks and their families.  Military associations are reliable partners of the defence administration Defence forces in Europe undergo structural changes featuring a growing technization of defence materiel, downsizing of personnel, increase of temporary work contracts and increasing participation in difficult out-of-area operations. EUROMIL is today, 35 years after its foundation, the main Europe-wide forum for the cooperation and exchange of experiences among professional military associations on these issues of common concern. An important side-product of this cooperation are the excellent transnational networks between EUROMIL’s member associations. EUROMIL has participatory status at the Council of Europe and it represents members’ interests as accredited lobbyist with the European Parliament. It upholds contacts with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the European Security and Defence Assembly (formerly Assembly of the WEU). EUROMIL has a co-operation agreement with the European Trade Union Confederation since 1998. Funded exclusively by membership fees, EUROMIL keeps to strict non-denominational and politically independent policies.  Security has a social dimension EUROMIL’s member associations and unions are committed to the principle of the Citizen in Uniform. A soldier has the same rights and obligations as any other citizen. A serviceman, who is to protect and defend the rights and freedoms of his fellow citizens and the constitutional order of his country, must be entitled to enjoy and perceive the same democratic rights and freedoms. This requires certain states to lift all existing restrictions on civil and social rights of soldiers which do not inevitably result from the military assignment. Decade-long experience has shown that those many countries that have granted full association rights for their soldiers have not experienced any loss of military efficiency or discipline. On the contrary, entering into a permanent dialogue with soldiers’ associations on their social and work conditions has helped to tie the servicemen and -women closer to the military organisation and de facto increased moral and loyalty among the troops. Democratic military associations do not interfere in matters of domestic or foreign policy, neither in defence strategy nor in operational decisions. Although in the case of the latter two they might raise legitimate subsidiary matters affecting personnel. Military associations fully respect the chain of command and do not condone insubordination within armed forces. |
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