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SUMMARY:Ist. Sup. Giotto-Ulivi BS Lorenzo - Luciana CASTELLINA
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nIn 2018\, the Historical Archives have developed a programme for high schools focused on three main themes: Brexit\, Migrations and Rising of nationalist movements across Europe. The meetings were attended by our members Monica Baldi\, Luciana Castellina\, Vitaliano Gemelli\, Gisela Kallenbach\, Niccolò Rinaldi\, Riccardo Ventre\, and Sir Graham Watson. \nLuciana Castellina\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”BUILDING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY\nMission report” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%230014ad” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]I had a wonderful time working with a hundred or so secondary school pupils from Florence at the European University Institute in Fiesole. The boys and girls seemed very interested in what we were doing\, to the point of even being too keen to please. By ‘too keen’ that I mean that\, despite the dramatic decline in the popularity of the institutions\, there was a remarkable lack of critical remarks about the EU. Most of the pupils displayed intelligence and skill in amending the proposals discussed in their working groups. Maybe they felt pressured by the very formal setting\, but I just wondered if they were holding back\, keeping their deeply held reservations to themselves. \nI should make it clear that overall the initiative was very beneficial and that the pupils who organised it did a great job. What I took from it\, however\, and this is something I think we should all bear in mind\, is that rather than focusing solely on what the institutions do\, these meetings should also be about debating and analysing the issues facing European society. I still believe that the main weakness of the European project is that after 50 years there are still no intermediate bodies working at European level to bridge the gap between the people and the institutions – bodies of this kind are the backbone of democracy. Take trade unions\, political parties and media outlets\, for example. They may be European in theory\, but in reality they remain resolutely national. I think we need to draw on the knowledge of how each Member State is organised\, how each society expresses itself culturally and politically\, as the basis for building the European community that has yet to take shape. This is why it is taking so long for solidarity to replace rivalry as the founding principle of the EU.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/ist-sup-giotto-ulivi-bs-lorenzo-16-january-2018/
CATEGORIES:The Historical Archives
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180120
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SUMMARY:Ist. Sup. Cecchi – Fucecchio - Vitaliano GEMELLI
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nIn 2018\, the Historical Archives have developed a programme for high schools focused on three main themes: Brexit\, Migrations and Rising of nationalist movements across Europe. The meetings were attended by our members Monica Baldi\, Luciana Castellina\, Vitaliano Gemelli\, Gisela Kallenbach\, Niccolò Rinaldi\, Riccardo Ventre\, and Sir Graham Watson. \nVitaliano Gemelli\, FMA Member\, participated in this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/ist-sup-cecchi-fucecchio-19-january-2018/
CATEGORIES:The Historical Archives
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180123
DTSTAMP:20260508T023935
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SUMMARY:Liceo Castelnuovo - Riccardo VENTRE
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n \nIn 2018\, the Historical Archives have developed a programme for high schools focused on three main themes: Brexit\, Migrations and Rising of nationalist movements across Europe. The meetings were attended by our members Monica Baldi\, Luciana Castellina\, Vitaliano Gemelli\, Gisela Kallenbach\, Niccolò Rinaldi\, Riccardo Ventre\, and Sir Graham Watson. \nRiccardo Ventre\, FMA Member\, participated in this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”TOGETHER IN FLORENCE” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%230028ba” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal”][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\nThe experience that our organisation enabled me to enjoy in Florence was to my mind remarkable both because it was so well managed and because the audience succeeded so excellently in participating\, putting forward proposals\, and summoning up enthusiasm for the matters at issue. If meetings of this kind and this calibre had been held ever since we rst came together\, then even those who now call themselves Eurosceptics would probably have become staunch Europhiles. \nThe topics covered – freedom of thought\, freedom of speech\, non-discrimination\, making no prejudicial distinctions on grounds of race or gender\, and other core concerns not just for a further experiment in coexistence\, but also to countries encompassing a variety of institutional systems\, languages\, customs\, mores\, and religions – inspired the young participants not only to engage in discussion and respond with a modern vision\, which I would describe as contemporary with the current historic moment\, but also to make innovative\, original proposals. I am sad that\, because of its broad intrinsic scope and the shortness of the time available\, I could not address the – before the Treaty of Lisbon – much-debated question whether the text of the preamble to the Treaty should cite the Judaeo-Christian and Periclean democratic roots of European civilisation. \nWhat that would have involved\, I believe\, and might\, I hope\, involve in the future should the subject be taken up again is not merely setting down a historical reference\, but exploring the genesis of profound changes shaped in the course of a development process and of the bene ts which these have brought to the whole of humankind and Europe in particular. Comparison of the discussion topics with the rst part of our Constitution proved interesting. The young people were able to grasp the underlying similarities\, in terms of principles\, between the essence of our Constitution and those of more modern constitutions and the Treaty of Lisbon. These are the subjects to which we shall probably have to draw the attention of all Europeans\, the young and the not so young\, in order to ensure that economic matters – the size of pizzas\, say\, or the quantity of sugar added to wine – are\, whatever their importance\, relegated to second place behind what should be the de ning elements on which to build – or rather rebuild – a society. The Florence-based European University Institute and the Former Members are working free of charge with public and private education institutions in all parts of Europe to foster discussion of the above topics in schools and the foremost cultural associations\, enlisting aid offered at no cost by serving MEPs and university teachers from countries possibly lying outside the range of rst-hand experience. At a conference to be held at the end of each year\, course participants will come together to discuss the elds that they have covered and select young people who\, having been trained\, will be ready to join the ranks of the trainers. \n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/liceo-castelnuovo-22-january-2018/
CATEGORIES:The Historical Archives
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180122
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SUMMARY:UNITED KINGDOM - UNIVERSITY OF MONTFORT - Ben PATTERSON
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]De Montfort University organized seminars and classes for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Followed by open debates. The day of Europe involved a meeting with local school children. Mr John Bowis\, Mr Ben Patterson and Ms Doris Pack\, former MEPs\, participated in this programme. \nBen PATTERSON\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nReport mission: EP TO CAMPUS VISIT TO DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY \nWithin ten minutes of my arrival at de Montfort\, the clock went back over fifty years: I found myself sitting in the front row at a lecture on the mathematics of fiscal stabilisers. Was I −oh\, Lord! – having to prepare for an economics exam again? And then I was up myself to answer questions on the subject. \nContacts between students studying a topic academically and those who have had to apply what they have learnt in the practical world are useful to both sides. The problems of the Euro Area in combing a centralised monetary policy with devolved fiscal policies were clearly relevant to the fiscal policy class; and also to the next one on monetary policy. Attending academic lectures can also remind ex-MEPs of fundamentals which may have been forgotten over the years. \nI had\, as requested by the Former Members Association office in Brussels\, prepared a written paper on the history and problems of the Euro. But it was not needed. Unsurprisingly\, the focus of all the discussions\, and in particular the general question-and-answer sessions\, was Brexit. What was going to happen if and when the UK left the EU? Doris Pack and I struggled to find satisfactory answers. Almost all the students and staff appeared to be Remainers\, and it was difficult to deny that no arrangement outside the EU could possibly be as good as not leaving in the first place. \nBut then there was a bewildering array of options\, ranging from EEA membership plus Customs Union (probably\, in due course\, leading to an EU return)\, to a cliff-edge crashout next year. It was necessary to explain that nearly everyone else\, and almost certainly the UK government\, were as much in the dark as we were. \nThe university had issued us with an envelope-full of vouchers for use in the various canteens on campus\, which I mostly spent on coffee. But we were also entertained to two excellent dinners in town\, after the first of which we went to the site of Richard III’s burial and saw something of the old\, now partly pedestrianised city. The de Montfort campus itself extends over quite a large area; and if there is one complaint we had it is that the local taxis seemed at a loss when trying to drop us off at the right building. \nMy visit ended\, as it had begun\, with attendance at two classes on special policy fields\, both under the supervision of Professor Alasdair Blair\, the university’s Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations\, and overall organiser of the event. The first was on the CAP\, a subject that has been endlessly debated and reformed over the years. I was able to recall the days of butter mountains and wine lakes\, and even\, before that\, of the UK’s expensive deficiency payments system. Now we have the Basic (formerly Single) Payment Scheme\, based on how much land you own. What\, we wondered\, was coming next? \nFinally\, after a short session on the British political situation – a subject for three days’ discussion in itself – I headed off back down the M1 to London.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/united-kingdom-university-of-montfort-23-25-january-2018/
CATEGORIES:EP to campus
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SUMMARY:United Kingdom - De Montfort University - Doris PACK
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]De Montfort University organised seminars and courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students followed by open debates. On Europe Day there was a meeting with local schoolchildren. Mr John Bowis\, Mr Ben Patterson and Mrs Doris Pack\, former Members of the European Parliament\, participated in this programme. \nDoris PACK\, FMA Member\, participated in the event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/royaume-uni-universite-de-de-montfort-23-25-janvier-2018/
CATEGORIES:EP to campus
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