European Conference off Conscripts Organizations

The European conference of the organizations of soldiers (European Conference off Conscripts Organizations, ECCO) is a grouping of associations and trade unions of European soldiers, who functioned of 1979 to 2002.

A grouping of movements defending the rights of called quota

The European conference of the organizations of soldiers, in English European Conference off Conscripts Organizations (ECCO) was born in 1979 with Malmö (Sweden). It consists of organizations of called of nine European countries: FR of Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden.

Some of these organizations, as in the Netherlands, are officially recognized trade unions; others, as Information for the rights of the soldier (IDS) in France are legal associations, but whose activity in the barracks is prohibited.

ECCo is a platform of information exchange and common control of actions for the defense of the rights of called quota, which constituted the majority of the armies in the year 1980. The end of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe will increase the number of adherent organizations with ECCO. But the fast professionalisation of the armies will lead to the disappearance of several of the movements which constituted the conference, like IDS in France. ECCO organized, each year approximately one, International Conference. There was 21 of it.

The third European conference of ECCO was taken place at spring 1981 with Saint-Price, in the Val-d'Oise (Île-de-France); it was prepared by IDS, and of the soldiers of the French quota took share there clandestinely. Organization ECCO was initially based with the Netherlands then in Sweden. It was renamed European Council off Conscripts Organizations in 1992. The last meeting was held in 2002. ECCO ceased functioning in 2003.

Sources

  • International off institutes social history, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Archives of Information for the rights of the soldier (2000)

  • BDIC, Nanterre (France), GERM, funds Benoit-Willot

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