Legalization of scientific
associations
Dear Colleagues in Anthropology,
Thanks to the votes
of EAA (European Anthropological Association http://eaa.elte.hu), I
was elected during the past two years as a Board member. I offered myself to
serve in any position and thereafter I was appointed to be the EAA Treasurer (http://eaa.elte.hu/administration_board.html).
Next I was asked to open a bank account in order to receive the circa 40,000
Euros that were in the EAA disposal. In order to do
this I had two possibilities: A - Open a personal bank account (as it happens
till now for many international associations too) and B - Create an official
bank account on behalf of the EAA. On this matter, Greek
attorneys advised me do not receive any money in a personal bank account, but
only in that of the EAA. Thus I went to three
different banks in Athens (Alpha bank, Citibank and National bank), where I
received the same answer: according to the recent international lows, to open a
bank account on behalf of the EAA, legalization
papers are needed, i.e. first of all the recognition of the EAA
by a court of low (anywhere in Europe).
During the past two
years many e-mails were exchanged among the EAA Board
members on the issue (as well as concerning the proper approval of the statutes
change on treasury, electronic voting etc). Recently (spring 2014), besides
focusing once more on further legalizing EAA, I proposed to contact other European as well
as world scientific bodies in order to create a bibliographical Internet data
base, as well as to appoint most cities as chairs of various scientific
disciplines (naturally all recognized by courts of low). Thus for example Psychology
could be based in
Followed a kind of skepticism
concerning the functionality of EAA as well as other International
associations (probably due to some different scientific p. ex. views too).
However I consider that the receivers of the present letter are entitled to be aware
of the previously referred problems and propositions. Based on the above I would
like to wish also that next administrations might be able to promote solving similar
topics.
Please, allow me to
remain at your disposal for further discussions or actions, sincerely yours Dr Nickos A. Poulianos (founding member of the EAA during the 1st meeting at