From 19 to 21 in Guimarães (Portugal) an international seminar was held, entitled "The crisis and youth employment - Priority for employment and Social Responsibility - The importance of the social partners within the framework of social dialogue" with funding from the European Commission and the European Centre for Workers' Questions (EZA), and with the collaboration of the International Platform for Cooperation and Migration (IPCM).

The extraordinary Assembly of the International Platform for Cooperation and Migration (IPCM) took place in Guimarães (Portugal) on 19 September, approving the following points:

• Amendment of the statutes of the International Platform for Cooperation and Migration.
• The admission of the Spanish Centre for Workers' Affairs (CEAT) as a new member.
• The status of the members of the Institutul de Formare Economică şi Socială (IFES) of Romania and Bashkimi i Sindikatave të të Pavarura Shqipërisë (BSPSH) of Albania was amended in both cases, with these organisations both becoming observers.
• The Workers' Social Centre (CST in its Spanish acronym) has now formally stood down from membership.

After the celebration of the European choices of last May 25, the IPCM wants to publicize the following declaration:

1. The International Platform for Cooperation and Migration (IPCM) request to the futures responsible for the European institutions (Parliament, Commission and Advice) a major attention and implication with regard to the problems derived from the migrations. The IPCM considers necessarily to advance towards a real politics of immigration.
2. The IPCM shows his deep worry for the advance of groups with xenophobic and racist ideologies that put in danger the democratic and pacific conviviality of the in habitants of the E.U.
3. The IPCM defends the Constitutional state and the International Law and, therefore, it denounces the existence of networks of person’s traffic and the violation of human rights, of the borders and of the beginning of good vicinity.
4. To concrete, the problems that have arisen in the borders of countries as Spain (in Melilla and in Ceuta), in Italy (in Lampedusa) or in Malta, they must be approached from a perspective that implies the whole E.U., in search of a joint an definitive solution.
5. The IPCM request also one more suitable cooperation to the development with the lands of origin and of traffic of the immigrants who flee of situation of extreme poverty, armed conflicts and lack of freedoms.

        Lisboa, on May 31, 2014