4.1. EM Belgium
‘50th Anniversary of the negotiations of Val Duchesse 1956-2006’
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the negotiations of Val Duchesse, the European Movement – Belgium is organising an “Open Door” day and an informative exposition on the fields of the domain Val Duchesse and in the Château Sainte-Anne.
The domain Val Duchesse and the Château Sainte-Anne, where the historical negotiations of 1956 took place which lead up to the Treaties of Rome in 1957, will exceptionally open their doors for the general public on 17 September 2006 from 10h00 until 18h00. The European Movement Belgium will organise many activities during the day.
For more information on this event in French, click here.
For more information in Dutch, click here.
We are looking forward to welcoming you there on September 17.
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‘Discover Europe-Evening: Bulgaria’
The European Movement Belgium and the Embassy of Bulgaria will
organise a ‘Discover Europe- Evening: Bulgaria’ on the 28th of September 2006 at 19h00.
The Ambassador of Bulgaria will open the evening with a speech.
The movie-documentary ‘Le frère ainé’ will be shown and ‘Le Trio de Sabin Todorov’
will give a jazz-concert. Afterwards everyone can taste Bulgarian wines.
For more information on this event in French, click here.
For more information in Dutch, click here.
EM Belgium contact: Maïté Abram
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4.2. EM Georgia
Monthly Bulletin
The Preparatory Committee of the European Movement in Georgia has recently began to publish a monthly bulletin on European Affairs.
Download it here (PDF).
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4.3. EM Germany
EU-Briefing:
the Agenda of the Finnish Presidency of the European Council
The Agenda of the Finnish Presidency of the European Council was in focus on
7 September in the Finnish Embassy in Berlin. After a short introduction of European Movement Germany’s Secretary General Bernd Hüttemann, representatives of Finnish Embassy, German Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and European Commission presented the main topics of the Agenda. The reports were followed by a debate with German stake holders. Presumably, results of the EU-Briefing will be published in an issue of the free working paper series “EU-in-BRIEF”.
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EU-in-BRIEF 06-3 published
The latest issue of the free working paper series “EU-in-BRIEF” deals with the discussion on the European Transparency Initiative, which is also a major goal of the Agenda of the Finnish Presidency of the European Council.
You can download the working paper (in German language) here.
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Start of the 54th “European Competition” 2007
With the beginning of the school year and under the motto „Equal Opportunities for Everybody“, outlining one of the EU major goals for the year 2007, the 54th European Competition has started. How concepts of “Europe” could be taught in school will be shown to students of different ages by drawn and written examples. These examples, for instance, encourage the students to examine the question whether men and women enjoy the same level of equal opportunities or to examine a media report on that topic.
More information (in German language): www.z-e-b.de
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4.4. EM Luxembourg
The European Movement Luxembourg will have from the 15th September it's main premisses at the Château de Munsbach 15km from Luxembourg-city . The MEL share the magnificient castle with the „Institut Universitaire International Luxembourg“ .
From now on the MEL will be able to organise a variety of activities and welcome participants for seminars ( fully equiped conference rooms, guest-rooms, dining room ).
Contact: Haude Lannon
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4.5. EM Switzerland
60 years of Churchill speech in Zurich, Hertenstein conference: Between federal state and federation – historical foundation for the future of Europe?
22 – 24 September, 2006 in Zürich and Hertenstein (Switzerland)
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the famous Churchill's speech about Europe which he gave in Zurich in 1946, the EM Switzerland and numerous partners organise an international conference dedicated to the exploration of different ways of making Europe.
You can read more about the conference in French or German on the new EM Switzerland website.
You can also contact EM Switzerland directly: Ronald Abegglen
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Euromarkt - "Selling Europe Through the Wallet"
EM Switzerland launched a campaign called "Euromarkt".
Flyers comparing the (high) swiss prices and the (cheaper)"european" prices Swiss citizens would pay if Switzerland was a EU member will be
distributed in the main swiss cities. With this campaign,
we seek to show that the European Union has brought cheaper consumption prices and
better real wages. We believe this line of argumentation will help us to promote
the accession of Switzerland to the EU among citizens-consumers through a less
political and "academic" way.
More information (german and french) as well as the prices comparing flyer can be found on www.euro-markt.ch
If you want to contact EM Switzerland, please visit www.europa.ch
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4.6. EM UK/Scotland
The Scottish Council of the European Movement has moved to:
12B Cumberland Street South East Lane
Edinburgh
EH3 6RU
Tel/Fax 00 44 131 557 9790
EM Scotland contact: Barbara MacLeod
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Events
The EM Scotland held a Café Europe in June with Catherine Stihler MEP. Members of the public welcomed the opportunity to talk informally over a cup of coffee. Sponsored by the European Parliament.
Future events include:
15 September, Inverness: “D for Democracy: Have your say in Europe”, with Edvard Outrata, Neil Mitchison and Michael Aron. Details in July newsletter.
02 October, Glasgow: “Transport and Europe”
11 October, Edinburgh: Joint meeting with Scottish Lawyers’ European Group. Speaker: Sir David Edward
30 October, Glasgow: Alex Salmond MP, Leader, Scottish National Party
03 November, Stirling: “D for Democracy. Have your say in Europe” Speakers Sir Stephen Wall and Brian Wilson
Visit www.euromove.org.uk and click on Scotland
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4.7. EM Denmark
Rina Valeur, formerly Editor-in-Chief with European Agenda, has taken up the position of the Secretary General of the EM Denmark, succeeding Anders Panum Jensen.
Read the news at European-Agenda.
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4.8. EM Latvia
European Movement Latvia, in partnership with the Nordic Council of ministers' Office in Latvia and EURussia centre, organised a high-level meeting on the topic of the EU's Norther Dimension with the title: "EU`s Northern Dimension - decisions and visions for the new framework meeting in Imatra/Finland September 21-23."
You can find more information on the EM Latvia website.
You can also download the programme (JPG).
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4.9. EM Finland
European election debates
In Finland like in many other EU member countries, too, the turn out at the European Parliament elections has been alarmingly low. To tackle this problem and to find out reasons behind the phenomenon and possible ways how to increase the turn out at the next elections, the European Movement in Finland organised a series of four discussion events around the country.
Experts from different fields of life such as journalists, PR experts and teachers were invited to participate. On the basis of the discussions, a pamphlet was published and widely distributed to politicians at different levels. The results of the discussions can be found in Finnish on the website of EM Finland.
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4.10. EM Serbia
200 best Serbian students came back from one month journey around Europe
The 200 best students of the Universities in Serbia have come back
from one month journey around Europe. The project TRAVELLING TO EUROPE,
conducted by EMINS and partners made possible for them to travel;
they got Inter-rail tickets and Schengen Visas for the summer of 2006,
for traveling around Europe at their own choice. The best results of this project are students’
impressions and great interest of the media and public. How we have 300 best students
(100 from last year + 200), future leading academic citizens,
who encircled their education with one more life experience –
getting to know European countries and citizens.
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Vote for women’s government
In order to promote women and their participation in political, social and economic life of Serbia EMinS initiated in July 2006 a project “Vote for Women’s Government”. The project, implemented in cooperation with daily paper Blic and supported by OSCE Mission in Serbia, aimed to inform citizens about numerous women experts and professionals who are able to acquire greater responsibility for governing the country and introducing new arguments and new perspective into political debates. In the course of 21 days 161 women were presented in the categories of present governmental structure and the readers voted for their candidates. Expert women ‘government’ was formed by approximately 30 000 votes of the citizens in Serbia.
OSCE Mission to Serbia and the ambassador Hans Ola Urstad held a reception
on 1 September for the virtual women’s governemnt of Serbia.
In the following months public presentations of the political
programmes of the elected women's virtual government will take place.
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4.11. EM Ukraine
EM Ukraine launches its new website
The European Movement Ukraine has launched its new website.
Please visit: http://www.europeanmovement.org.ua
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4.12. ELDR
ELDR leaders discuss next EU enlargement in Bulgaria
An informal meeting of Liberal Leaders from Europe was held on invitation of the Chairman of the NMSS Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha in his "Tsarska Bistritsa" Residence (Bulgaria) from 31 August to 2 September. Mr. Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha welcomed Annemie Neyts (ELDR Party President), Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Prime Minister of Denmark), Calin Popescu -Tariceanu (Prime Minister of Romania), Graham Watson (Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament), Lord John Alderdice (President of the Liberal International) and the European Commissioners for Enlargement and Scientific Research Olli Rehn and Janez Potocnik.
The attention was placed on the next EU enlargement to Romania and Bulgaria. Less than a month before the report of the European Commission and the summit of EU Heads of States, the guests made a commitment of lobbying for the unconditional accession of Bulgaria to the EU and identified themselves as a "strong team of friends". The EU respect for the date 1st January 2007 decided
during the EU Presidency of Denmark is very
important from a political point of view.
Read more here.
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European Liberal Democrats' Congress in Bucharest to focus on security
Held every autumn, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform (ELDR) Party annual Congress is one of the largest political events in Europe. This year, the ELDR Party will hold its 27th Congress in Bucharest, Romania, on 12-13 October 2006. By holding its Congress in Romania, shortly before the country's expected accession to the EU, ELDR marks its commitment to spreading prosperity, democracy and individual freedoms across Europe.
During this Congress entitled "Working together for a secure and free Europe", the party is due to adopt its policy for the years to come on the key issue of balancing freedom and security. More than 300 Liberal Democrats from all over Europe will discuss the issue of Europe's external and internal security. Debates will notably focus on "Upholding Europe's legacy of freedom and openness" and "Making Europeans work together for a safer world". Fringe meetings will address the issues of "Combating human trafficking", "Liberalism in a Multicultural Reality" and "Secularism in Europe".
Visit the ELDR website for more information
Your contact with ELDR: Myriam CORNILLET
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4.13. JEF-Europe
Vassilis Stamogiannis takes the post of the Secretary General
Vassilis Stamogiannis has recently replaced Joan Marc simon as the Secretary General of JEF-Europe, heading the organisations' Secretariat in Brussels.
Visit the JEF-Europe website.
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PRESS RELEASE: Sarkozy and the future of Europe: good, but can do better
Press release, 10 September 2006
In his Brussels speech delivered on Friday 8th September 2006 Nicolas Sarkozy has presented his views on Europe and called for a "mini-treaty" to get out of the current stalemate. Jan Seifert, president of JEF-Europe (the Young European Federalists), and Pauline Gessant, president of JEF-France, welcome his speech as a positive step to bring Europe back into the French political discourse...
To read the full press release follow this link.
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The New Federalist
The last edition of the printed magazine The New Federalist is now available on-line.
Click here.
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4.14. UEF
UEF Supports the EU’s participation in the unifil peace intervention
Political declaration of Mrs Mercedes Bresso, President of the UEF, at the occasion of the closing of the 23rd International Seminar in Ventotene
UEF expresses its satisfaction with the decision of the European Union to participate in the UNIFIL peace intervention in South Lebanon, and believes that this decision is the first step in taking responsibility for peace in the Middle East, which represents a vital interest for Europe. The intervention opens the perspective for overcoming US and Israeli policies founded on unilateralism and war.
UEF believes that a policy of peace in the Middle East must be based on a regional comprehensive project whose fundamental aspects are:
- the solution of the Israelo-Palestinian conflict, which implies the creation of two States along the lines indicated in the UN resolutions;
- the convening of a Conference for security and co-operation in the Middle East, which must also tackle the problem of nuclear disarmament in the region;
- the beginning of a process of regional integration on the basis of the European model, starting with Israel, Palestina, Lebanon and Giordania, which constitutes the pre-requisite for developing human rights and democracy in the region....
To read the full press release, visit the UEF website.
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4.15. EPP
.eu domain
The EPP has acquired an ‘.eu’ domain name for its website and emails:
New url: www.epp.eu
New domain: @epp.eu
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New office
the headquarters of the EPP will be moving as of September 9, 2006 to a new, larger and modern building in the ‘European quarter’ of Brussels:
Rue du Commerce 10
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
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