The Fourth Congress for Democracy
was held on Friday 14 July 2000 and was widely agreed to have been our most successful yet.

Over 200 politicians, business leaders, trade unionists and individuals from across the political spectrum met together at Church House, Westminster.

The Fourth Congress passed the following resolution:

Bearing in mind the five principles agreed to at the first Congress, this Congress notes with concern the continuing transfer of powers from democratic parliaments to unelected agencies in the European Union, calls for basic democratic rights to be enshrined in a Declaration of Democracy, and mandates the Agenda Committee to draw up such a Declaration for submission to the Fourth Congress.

For a full report of the Fourth Congress, click here.

The Congress welcomed the following guest speakers:

The Case for an Independent Pound
Austin Mitchell MP, Co-Chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Vice-Chairman of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign (speech text)

Mike Woodin, Principal Speaker for the Green Party (speech text)

Getting the Message Across
Trevor Kavanagh, Political Editor of The Sun

Lord Bell, Chairman of the Conservative Keep the Pound Campaign (speech text)

The Next Inter-Governmental Conferences
Daniel Hannan MEP, member of the European Parliament's Justice & Home Affairs Committee and Budget Committee (speech text)

Messages of support (text here) were read from:
Charles Pasqua MEP, Leader of the European of Nations Group in the European Parliament (also Leader of the Rassemblement pour la France) and Lord Blake, the distinguished constitutional historian

Referendum Legislation
Frederick Forsyth, Chairman of the Congress for Democracy's Constitutional Sub-Committee (speech text)

The Danish Referendum
Jens-Peter Bonde MEP, Chairman of the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities in the European Parliament and Leader of the campaign against Danish entry to the single currency  (speech text)