EUROPEAN HOUSE ESTABLISHED IN VUKOVAR

VUKOVAR, Aug 22 (Hina) - The constitutional assembly of the European House Vukovar, the regional office of the European movement for the promotion of European integration, was held in the eastern Croatian town on Tuesday. The assembly was held under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry for European Integration and the European House Zagreb, the headquarters of the European Movement Croatia. Speaking about the goals and tasks of the European House in Vukovar, one of the movement's founders, Siegfried Gehrecke, said one of the most important goals was the promotion of the idea of a united Europe, as the common home of all European peoples. According to Gehrecke, for Europe, Vukovar represents a warning sign against civil war and its wish for the town to become the place of peaceful meetings. We want to decisively activate in this area the energy that would heal Europe from its old diseases - intolerance and hatred, which here had disastrous consequences, Gehrecke, a former Vukovar resident and a returnee to the town, said. Gehrecke's wife, Ljiljana Gehrecke, was elected president of the European House Vukovar. She announced the European House Vukovar would initiate projects of "health care, environmental protection, improvement of amateur sports and art, small businesses, and those aimed at improving agriculture by producing biologically healthy food." (hina) jn rml