March
1986. |
BACKGROUND
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In Alicante, Mediterranean city on the
South-east of Spain, the ”First Symposium about Human Maturity, Spare time
and Savings Banks Retired Staff” takes place. This event, with a marked
social and cultural line, created great interest, according to the subjects that
were going to be treated and, at the same time a unity towards the ideas and
programmes offered in the meeting. The financial sponsoring was possible thanks
to Alicante and Murcia Savings Bank (known today as CAM), which was totally
involved with the ideas presented.
At the end of
this symposium, the working party that had carried about the event reached the
following conclusions, according to the issues studied and stating that
the Savings Banks Retired Staff compromised to structure and start the
road to a wide association movement (of which there were no precedents until
that moment), that would have to end in a European Group (open to all nations)
that would work focusing on three main issues:
● The value that must be
given to spare time.
● The real importance of
Human Madurity at all ages.
● The Social
Action liable to be developed by the Savings Banks Retired Staff.
March,
1986. |
CASTELLÓN MINUTES. THE SPANISH
FEDERATIONIS CREATED. PRIMARY IDEA OF THE EUROPEAN GROUP.
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In the city of Castellón in the
Valencian Community (Spain), after a meeting where the participants came
from different parts of Spain and represented several groups of retired people,
the minutes is drawn up, registering the beginning of the Promotion
Group of the Federation of Associations of Retired Staff and
Pensioners from Spanish Savings Banks. In this minute the decision to
create, at the right moment, the GROUP OF RETIRED DTAFF AND PENSIONERS FROM
EUROPEAN SAVINGS BANKS is taken.
November,
1986. |
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
SPANISH FEDERATION |
Among The objectives that
must be accomplished by the Spanish Federation of Retired Staff, in the Statutes
approved by the creation of the European Group is stated.
March,
1987. |
FIRST CONTACT WITH
EUROPEAN GROUP OF SAVINGS BANKS.
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The first
contacts between the Spanish Federation and the Group of Savings Banks, placed
in Brussels, takes place with the direct collaboration and participation of the
Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks based in Madrid.
The Group’s General Secretary, Mr. Klaus
MEYER-HORN and his most representative collaborators in different departments,
received the inspirators of the idea of the associations among retired people,
giving them a warm welcome.
September,
1987. |
CALL FOR EUROPEAN
SAVINGS BANKS |
In Santiago de Compostela, important
city because its singular European historic and cultural route, The Spanish
Federation is held. During this Convention it is decided to set up a meeting in
order to create the PROMOTION GROUP of the Associations of Retired Staff from
European Savings Banks; In addition an informative leaflet is given out in
order to call Retired Staff and Financial Entities from twelve countries so the
Promotion Group can be formed.
October,
1987. |
THE SAVINGS BANK
ASSOCIATION, QUARTER OF THE GROUP OF RETIRED STAFF TO BE.
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The Governing Board of the European Group
of Savings Banks reach an agreement and accept the proposal made by the Spanish
Confederation in Paris by their General Director, Mr. Miguel Allué, suggesting
that the European Savings Banks place their official quarters in Brussels.
July,
1989. |
STATUTES. |
The Group of Savings Banks for Industrial
Relations (ACARL) in Spain, assumes, by the Federation’s request, the writing up
of the first rough
draft of the Statues belonging to the Group of Retired Staff from European
Savings Banks based on the Spanish Association Law
191/64
November
1989. |
MADRID MINUTES. CREATION OF THE
PROMOTION GROUP. |
In
the registered office of the Savings Banks Spanish Confederation in Madrid and,
before the General Director Mr. Miguel ALLUÉ ESCUDERO, in an event where the
mass media were present, the minutes is signed by all the assistants,
representing themselves or their delegations and leaving a written record about
the constitution of the PROMOTION GROUP, as follows:
Mr
Francisco M. Bernabéu Penalva, President of the Spanish Federation of Pensioners
and Retired People; Mr. Roger Miraglio, First Vice-President of the Federation
Nationale du Personnel Retraité des Caisses d’Epargne, in France; Mr. Manuel
Fernández Pereira da Cruz, President of the Associacao dos Aposentados da Caixa
Geral de Depósitos in Portugal; Mr. Atilio Sala, President of the Pensionati
CARIPLO; Cristian Andreu, in charge of Spain’s Relations in the European Group
of Savings Banks’ Staff Commite;
Mr. Albert Backendorf, President of the Association de Personnel
Retraitté de la Caisse dÊpargne de l’Êtat de Luxembourg and Mr. Steen EK.
President of the Swedish Association of Savings Banks Retired
Staff.
Since the
beginning of the Promotion Group’s activities, who was to the President to be,
Mr. Francisco M. Bernabéu Penalva and his mates were highly supported to develop
the Association project involving Belgium, Spain, France, United Kingdom,
Luxemburg, Italy, and the State Organisms dependant from the ECU’s Social
Affairs Department.
November,
1989. |
Mr JOSÉ LIDÓN
REPRESENTS THE SPANISH
FEDERATION |
During the Spanish Federation’s General
Assembly Mr. José Lidón Meseguer is named representative in the European Group’s
Promotion Commission.
December,
1989. |
ADAPTATION OF THE
STATUTES TO THE BELGIAN
LAW. |
The European
Group’s Legal Department and the COB Banque d`Epagne in Brussels, to the
Belgian Law of Non-Profit International Associations from the
25th/10/1919
Revised and
complemented with the proposals made by the European mates and also by the
Promotion Group, the Statutes are sent to the Associations and to those
who collaborated on its creation so they could read it and make any final
contributions.
The Statutes, now
adapted to the Belgian Law of Non-Profit International Associations from
the 25th/10/1919, are sent to the Associations of Savings BANKS Retired
Staff involved in each country, to the Managers of all the Savings Banks
Entities, to the European Group of Savings Banks and to the Savings Banks
Spanish Confederation.
October,
1990. |
UNIVERSAL
SAVING DAY. MEETING OF THE PROMOTION GROUP IN BRUSSELS.
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During the
meeting in Brussels, where the LXVI Universal Savings Day was highlighted, the
Promotion Group submits to the documents containing the definite
Statues.
6th of June
1991. |
GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL
ASSEMBLY. |
In Zaragoza, in
the Assembly Room placed in the Culture Centre belonging to the Savings Bank
from Zaragoza, Aragón and Rioja that was totally crowed with Retired Staff
representing several European Associations and Spanish mates, that had
previously attended the National Convention, the General Constitutional Assembly
of the GROUP OF RETIRED STAFF FROM EUROPEAN SAVINGS BANKS is held.
Those who
attended the meeting and, by the President’s request, stood up and sang the Joy
Anthem, emblematic in the European Community, and declared, in the middle of the
applauses, that the Group they had longed for had been officially created and
was full of promises and curiosity about the world inspiring good actions and
culture.
The following
Groups were named permanent members of Honour in the Constitutional Assembly:
Mediterranean
Savings Bank (CAM)
Savings Bank from
Zaragoza, Aragón and Rioja
June,
1993. |
TRIBUTE TO TOSE WHO
BUILT THE EUROPEAN
NATION |
Owing to the First European Convention of
Retired Staff from Savings Banks – Intergenerational Meeting- held in Brussels,
the European Parliament welcomed the participants in order to receive a document
giving a posthumous TRIBUTE to the memory of Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer,
Alcide Degasperi, Paul Enri Spaak, Robert Schuman and Jean Monet, as the fathers
of the European Nation.
October,
1995. |
CALL TO THE FIRST
EUROMEETING. |
In the Management
Board’s meeting in the Central Office of the Caixa Geral in Lisbon, taking as a
base a project written by Mr. Lidón, it was agreed to celebrate a yearly
Euromeeting in order to promote cohabitation between the Group’s International
Associates.
The
first Euromeeting took place between the 17th and the 26th of May 1996 in
ISDABE, International Residence of Spanish Savings Banks in Estepona (Málaga).
278 Associates belonging to the founder countries and guests from Germany
attended. The number has increased each year up to the 553 participants in the
last Euromeeting held in Islantilla (Huelva – Spain) in May
2005.
From the
beginning, the Euromeetings consist in a week of cohabitation, with a programme
including cultural tourism, the Genral Assembly, and other theme meetings.
During this time we count with a group of translators and interpreters form the
University of Alicante.
October,
1996. |
EUROMEETINGS’
MAGAZINE. |
Form the first edition; the Magazine
Euromeetings has been released in 5 languages (German, Spanish, French, English
and Italian) along the different participant countries. The magazine is
sponsored with advertising and is sent without costs to those Associations and
members having attended to a Euromeeting. All publications can be read in the
section “Publications” on our web-site.
May,
1997. |
EUROPEAN CULTURAL
FOUNDATION
“INTERGENERATIONS”. |
During
the Euromeeting held in Palma de Mallorca the Project
of creating the European Cultural Foundation “Integrations”
was discussed and studied with the appreciated collaboration of the
representatives from the Recreative and Cultural Associations of Spanish Savings
Banks Active Staff.
May,
1998. |
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
CLUB |
During
the Euromeeting held in ISDABE in Estepona, by Mr. Lidón’s request, a family
experience, collections, etc exchange system was created. This system worked
during the first year, but the yearly release of the magazine Euromeetings made
the development difficult.
May,
1999. |
INTERGENERATIONAL
CONGRESS: A SOCIETY FOR ALL AGES.
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Organized in
Alicante during the Euromeeting held in Benidorm between the 5 and the 7th of
May, sponsored by the Mediterranean Savings Bank (Spain) and by the UNESCO’s
official participation, and owing to the International Year of Old- Age People,
the International Congress “A society for all Ages” took
place. The conclusions reached at
the end of this meeting were written out in a document that was sent to UNO’s
Office in Madrid and to Social Affairs Secretary in New York. Also a
declarative
statement
named, by all the member’s
consent, “Declarative of Alicante”. This text can be read in the section
“Publications” on our web-site
May,
2005. |
EUROPEAN WORKING
GROUPS AND PERMANENT OBSERVATORY FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION.
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During
the Euromeeting held in Islantilla (Huelva) between the 7th and the 14th of May,
sponsored by the Monte de Piedad and the Savings Bank from Huelva and
Sevilla (EL MONTE), the President,
López presented the project “Prospects for the Group and the Euromeetings” that
was approved by the General Assembly, among which the creation of European
Working Groups (GET) and the creation of the Permanent Observatory for Social
Protection (OPPS) must be highlighted. All this information can be consulted in
the section” Publications” on our web-site.