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SUMMARY:Memorial Service 2018
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-12 vc_col-md-12 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_column_text]The 2018 Memorial Service was held on Wednesday 2 May at 17:45 in the Space Yehudi Menuhin\, European Parliament\, Brussels.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/XRTkSvw_3ls”][vc_column_text]Read the Final Oration by President Hans-Gert Pöttering and please find below the Brochure with the full list of deceased members  and obituaries written by their former colleagues.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”`{`3d-flip-book mode=“fullscreen“ urlparam=“fb3d-page“ pdf=“/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/brochure_en.pdf“`}`”][/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/memorial-service-2018/
CATEGORIES:Memorial Service
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SUMMARY:2018 Dinner Debate
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2018 Dinner Debate took place on Wednesday 2 May in the European Parliament\, Brussels. Mr. Roberto Gualtieri MEP\,  Chair of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs \, was our Guest of Honour.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”4870\,4872\,4874\,4868″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]For more photographs of the Dinner Debate\, please click here[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/2018-dinner-debate/
CATEGORIES:Dinner Debate
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SUMMARY:HUNGARY - UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED - Herbert BOESCH
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe event is part of a series (Integration Club) organised by the University of Szeged in relation to European integration for students (undergraduate and graduate)\, university staff\, high school students\, young graduates\, press and interested public. \nYou can find a presentation of the project here. \nHerbert Bösch\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: SZEGED WAS WORTH A VISIT \nAdmittedly it isn’t easy to get to Szeged. If you go by plane\, you land in Budapest\, over 200km from Szeged\, and if you take the train\, the journey from Lake Constance can take some 15 hours. But it’s worth it: a beautiful city with a touch of Mediterranean flair and a neat and tidy centre with lots of space for walking and cycling and time to enjoy yourself. And students from across the globe. \nRight at the start there was an interview with two young ladies from northern Germany\, office apprentices who were spending a month in Szeged as exchange students. Asked why they had chosen that particular place\, their response was refreshingly simple: they wanted to see a part of the EU which was less well known in their own country. They said they were charmed by the city and the people. \nThere followed a discussion in the university’s ‘integration club’ with young people from across the whole of Europe\, with questions which were a million miles from the everyday trivia of the European institutions. Defending and improving human rights\, perspectives for EU enlargement\, and freedom to travel and settle abroad were among the issues raised. As expected\, the role of the Hungarian government in the EU was also discussed\, as was the increasing isolation from the 27 other Member States which the country might face as a result. Participants were unanimous in their view that the EU should place the common values set out in the Treaties above the selfish national interests of individual Member States in the forthcoming negotiations on the future financing of the EU. These values were also stressed in the context of migrants seeking in the EU a safe place from discrimination and persecution. \nThe following day we discussed the limits of European integration and the enlargement potential of the EU. The lecture took place in the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged. Students from third countries – in particular from the Balkans – voiced their hopes that the EU would increase its efforts to ensure enlargement takes place. \nAt the moment it seems the EU is giving the impression of being overly concerned with itself and its internal conflicts. And we were reminded that the last major enlargement was in some ways still being digested and that there should be an internal consolidation of the EU before any further enlargement. An initiative such as the European Convention might give some impetus both to deepening the EU and to increasing its capacity for enlargement. Expectations in this regard fall on the European Parliament. I have a particular memory of two young women from Serbia and Kosovo who asked what they could do to help their countries join the EU… \nIt is to the credit of the ‘EP to Campus’ programme that events are also held away from national capitals. This is an important difference from most EU events organised by the in-country offices of Parliament and the Commission. It may be that the atmosphere in a university town at Hungary’s southern (EU) border is very different from that of the capital\, for cultural and geographical reasons. \nAnd it was clear that our young interlocutors really appreciated having a (former) Member of the EP to represent Europe rather than ‘Brussels bureaucracy’. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/hungary-university-of-szeged-2-4-may-2018/
CATEGORIES:EP to campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20180502T143000
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SUMMARY:Political communication in the upcoming European elections
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 2 May 2018 the FMA organised with the EPRS a seminar entitled “Political communication in the upcoming European elections“. \nThe Speakers were: \n\nEnrique BARÓN CRESPO – President of the EP Former Members’ Association\nAnthony TEASDALE – Director General for European Parliamentary Research Services\nDanuta HÜBNER\, Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs\nCliff STEARNS\, President of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress\nJaume DUCH GUILLOT\, EP Spokesperson and Director-General for Communication\n\nHere you can find the programme of the event and the profile of Speakers. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12964″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/political-communication-in-the-upcoming-european-elections/
CATEGORIES:Policy event
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SUMMARY:SLOVENIA - UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA - Per GAHRTON
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe University of Ljubljana organised a lecture for BA students in the introduction to policy analysis led by prof Damjan Lajh\, meetings with student associations and participation in the Europe Week round table on EU’s environmental policy. \nPer GAHRTON\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: SLOVENIA – DRIFTING TOWARDS POPULISM? \nIn mid-May I visited Ljubljana on assignment for the European Parliament’s former Members’ Association. The idyllic calm of the cafés along the Ljubljanica river was overwhelming – but perhaps deceptive. My visit coincided with the run-up to a snap election on 3 June: the third since 2011 and the ninth general election since the break-up of Yugoslavia. There have also been 20 referendums on everything from EU and NATO membership to the legislation on archiving\, same-sex marriage and railway building. Was it wishful thinking\, then\, when a major Swedish newspaper referred to the country as “Friendly little Slovenia” (Svenska Dagbladet\, 15 July 2011)? When I took part in a panel debate on EU environmental policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences\, I came across an opinion that is often heard in Scandinavia: the EU is needed in order to tackle cross-border environmental issues\, but the action it takes is too weak. I cited Wikipedia\, which commends the EU for the Paris Agreement\, but Panel of Speakers at the event of the University of Ljubljana notes that the EU’s leadership role in the area of environmental policy has been weakened. A briefing note drafted by the European Parliament’s research service lists the social dimension\, migration\, security and defence as issues that are being discussed with an eye to the future of the EU post-Brexit\, but the environment is not mentioned (The Future of Europe – Contours of the current debate\, European Parliamentary Research Service\, April 2018\, PE 620.202). \nI found Uroš Vajgl’s contribution particularly interesting. Mr Vajgl\, who has represented Slovenia in COREPER\, the EU’s ‘secret centre of power’\, maintained that the EU devotes less effort to environmental issues than it does to employment\, for example. At lunch with Mr Vajgl and others after the debate\, I was struck by their criticism of commercialism and general left-wing attitudes. Were these representative of the Slovenian people? According to The New York Times\, the election on 3 June ‘tilted another European country to the right’. And it’s true that a right-wing populist party won with 25% of the vote\, but a new centre-left group\, Marjan Šarec’s list\, came second\, and the social democrats came third. \nDespite the weak position that the Greens are in\, I was asked to give a lecture based on my book\, Green parties\, Green future (Plutobooks\, 2015). As a thank-you\, a member of the audience gave me a book entitled The Slovenian Greens: From early success to long-time failure (Danica Fink-Hafner\, Matej Knep and Meta Novak\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, 2015). Later on I showed the book to Igor Juriši ć\, leader of Slovenia’s Green Party (Stranka Mladih)\, and his response was: ‘I haven’t got round to reading it yet\, but unfortunately the title is spot on!’ In 1990\, Slovenia’s Greens garnered 8.8% of the vote\, 8 seats in Parliament and 5 ministers. In 2018\, however\, they didn’t manage to field any candidates under their own party name\, cooperating instead with Marjan Šarec’s list. Fink-Hafner\, Knep and Novak cite two main reasons for the Greens’ decline: first\, it had been a mistake to go into government with such a new\, weak party\, and second\, there had been too much sectarianism and factionalism\, and too many defections. Slovenia is a good reminder that it is important for small parties to be very careful in choosing the right time to have a go at being in government. It also shows that the curse of sectarianism must be kept in check. \nOur Slovenian hosts told us that it simply wasn’t done to visit Slovenia without going to Lake Bled\, so my wife and I duly went there. To prepare\, I read a French novel about a couple who visit the beauty spot. The blurb on the back promises ‘glimpses of a relationship which\, despite the lovers’ good intentions\, is doomed to fail’ (Clément Bénech\, L’été slovène\, 2013). I hope the novel isn’t predicting the downfall of ‘friendly little Slovenia’\, but shows\, rather\, that the country’s future is in the hands of decent democrats after all. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”9826″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/slovenia-university-of-ljubljana-from-7-to-10-may-2018/
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SUMMARY:TURKEY - IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS - Gyula HEGYI
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe event had as its main theme ‘The EU’s Environmental/Energy Policy: Achievements\, Challenges and Implications for EU-Turkey-Relations’. Gyula HEGYI\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: MEETING YOUNG AND PROGRESSIVE TURKS IN IZMIR \nIzmir is a beautiful city situated along the Aegean Sea\, with 4 million inhabitants. This progressive-minded city has six universities\, and I was invited to the Izmir University of Economics (IUE). IUE is a private university with around 7500 students. My host was Assist. Prof. Dr. Alexander Bürgin\, Head of EURAC\, who has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission in August 2015. (A Jean Monnet Chair is a title assigned to university professors with a specialization in European Union studies\, including financial support for three years.) \nI participated three different panels with 20-20 minute’s introductions\, and I also tried to answer the many questions of the smart and well informed students. The first topic was The Promotion of Environmental Standards in the EU external relations. I mentioned that EU has some of the world’s highest environmental standards. The EU’s goal is to promote these standards and global sustainable development to their trade partners. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change is especially crucial for us\, and the EU is driving force of its implementation. \nHowever I also mentioned that in practice there are some contradictions as well\, and in some cases the Third Countries have higher environmental standards. A student immediately mentioned the example of the natural heritage on which the Turkish regulations are tougher than ours. \nThe second topic was Making Cities Sustainable: Achievments and the Changes in the EU and Turkey. In Turkey cities accommodate over 75% of the country’s population\, and the sustainable urban development is crucial for the fast-growing urban population. I spoke about the importance of public transport\, clean air\, renewable energies\, green public procurement\, heat waves and other issues. I also mentioned my own EP report on the thematic strategy on the urban environment. Following my interventions the other panelist\, Mr Ümit Sahin from the Sabunci University Istanbul mentioned that the GDP growths in Turkey is mostly based on construction\, and it is far from being an environmentally sustainable activity. He\, as a green activist\, gave a detailed picture on the environmental problems of Turkey\, harshly opposing a project of a Russian-built nuclear power station. As it normally happens\, some students were against the nuclear energy\, others had more tolerant approach to it. It was interesting to hear that one student even traveled to Chernobyl as a tourist to see the spot. \nThe third topic was The Rise of Nationalism and Populism in the EU. Due to the political situation I refrained from criticizing the Turkish government but I spoke a lot about the nationalist and illiberal tendencies in Hungary and Poland. The students were rather well informed on the problems of these two countries. But I also underlined that to criticize the “Brussels” doesn’t mean automatically euroscepticism\, and the integration to the Common Europe shouldn’t endanger our own national cultures. We had a lively debate on the Hungarian-Turkish relations and the exact meaning of the “nationalism”. Some students came from the EU countries\, which also show the good reputation of the IUE. Professor Bürgin closed all the three sessions with useful conclusions. His whole course on European studies goes in English and we have to keep contact with this progressive university. \nIt has been really heart-warming to meet these talented\, skilled young students\, who share our values in Turkey. Let’s hope that they overcome the troubles of their rich and brave country![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”9821″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/turkey-izmir-university-of-economics-8-9-may-2018/
CATEGORIES:EP to campus
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SUMMARY:The State of the Union 2018
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2018 edition of The State of the Union took place from 10 to 12 May and had a special emphasis on Solidarity in Europe.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/0dcKX-3blK8″ el_width=”60″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”2018 STATE OF THE UNION CONFERENCE” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23020089″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]On 10-12 May the eighth State of the Union conference took place at the EUI. The State of the Union is a high-level conference for reflection on the European Union. This year the main topic was “Solidarity in Europe”\, a topic of crucial importance to face the future of the EU. \nThree heads of state were present: Sergio Mattarella\, President of the Italian Republic; Michael D. Higgins\, President of Ireland; and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa\, President of the Portuguese Republic\, as well as distinguished academics\, practitioners\, and members of civil society. Jean-Claude Juncker\, Mario Draghi\, Antonio Tajani and Federica Mogherini gave their view on the importance of ‘Solidarity in Europe’. As President Tajani said\, the last ten years of crisis have slowed down the virtuous solidarity process and the same pro-European momentum. The spirit of solidarity between countries that has been the real driver of the integration process is failing. \nDistracted politics feeds anger and sellers of illusions. According to President Tajani\, the only answer to reconnect the Institutions to their citizens is a different Europe\, more political\, more democratic\, more solidary. A Europe which is incapable of supporting solidarity is in danger of losing its own souls and its own values. He concluded his speech by saying that Europe’s respect for culture and diversity should be at the heart of its public discourse. As President Higgins said “Solidarity in Europe must be the foundation on which our Union’s action is built. It must be the star which guides our action at home and in the wider world.” \nThe need for a more unified and solid Union has been exposed through a series of panels that followed the opening\, ranging from EMU\, development and humanitarian aid strategies\, energy and climate change\, social investment\, immigration and EU foreign\, security and defence policies. The FMA was represented by Former President Enrique Barón Crespo and Monica Baldi\, FMA Board member responsible for relations with the European University Institute.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”8081″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nEnrique Barón Crespo at the 2018 State of Union in Florence \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”8083″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nFrom left to right: Enrique Barón Crespo\, Renaud Dehousse- President of the European University Institute\, Monica Baldi and Vincenzo Grassi – Secretary General of the European University Institute \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/the-state-of-the-union-2018/
LOCATION:EUI Florence\, via dei Roccettini\, 9\, San Domenico di Fiesole\, Florence\, 50014\, Italy
CATEGORIES:The State of the Union
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SUMMARY:GERMANY - UNIVERSITAT FLENSBURG    - Robert GOEBBELS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF) organized a three days event\, which were divided into interdisciplinary round table discussions and workshops on different European Studies related topics\, the award ceremony of the Europe Prize of the university\, as well as interactive student initiatives all over the campus. \nRobert GOEBBELS\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: THE RIGHT TO SECESSION DOES NOT EXIST \nDuring my visit to the European University of Flensburg\, I took part in a colloquium on the right of peoples to self-determination. \nThe organisers had invited representatives from Catalonia to defend that rich Spanish province’s independence aspirations. \nOne of the underlying issues in the debate was a complaint regarding the European Union: why had the EU institutions failed to support Catalonian separatists? \nMy response went down like a lead balloon. How can the European Union support independence movements when the preamble to the Treaty on European Union sets out that the Member States are ‘resolved to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe’? \nArticle 50 of the Treaty provides that ‘any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with own constitutional requirements’. The United Kingdom is currently going through that bitter experience. \nBut the Treaty does not in any way suggest that part of a Member State has the right to withdraw or dissociate from the Union by means of ‘self-determination’. If a Member State needs to ‘reorganise’\, it can only do so by following the country’s constitutional requirements. \nThe Scottish independence referendum was authorised by the UK Parliament. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia into two countries \n– the Czech Republic and Slovakia \n– took place in a context of political upheaval in Europe. \nThe European Union must defend the integrity of all its Member States. It cannot push for their disintegration. \nAll the more so in the Catalonian case\, as the Spanish Constitutional Court ruled that the Catalonian Government could not unilaterally declare Catalonian independence. Catalonians have their own culture and their own language\, but neither is under threat. Under the Spanish Constitution\, the Catalonians have more than enough means to defend their identity. The Catalonians are not oppressed or being subjected to a dictatorship. Their dream of independence can only come true if they negotiate with Spain’s central powers. What is more\, the electorate’s opinion has been shown on a number of occasions to be completely divided regarding independence: almost half of Catalonians want to remain Spanish. The famous right to self-determination is a dangerous fantasy which could aggravate regional self-interest. More often than not\, independence movements are mostly driven by the desire not to share their region’s ‘riches’ with their fellow citizens from other regions\, whom they label as lazy. Italy’s Lega Nord\, Flemish parties in Belgium and many others have taken that stance. \nThe fact that the UN Charter makes no reference to the right of peoples to self-determination is a perfect illustration of the fact that it is a fantasy. The United Nations calls for the ‘sovereign equality’ of all states. The Charter stipulates that no provisions in it ‘authorise the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state’. \nIt was not until after decolonisation began that a resolution\, from 1952\, referred to the ‘right of peoples to self-determination’. But once a new state has been formed\, the United Nations has always refused to allow unilateral secessions\, as we saw in the attempts by Katanga and Biafra to declare their independence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/germany-universitat-flensburg-15-17-may-2018/
CATEGORIES:EP to campus
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180601
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SUMMARY:Leaders Beyond the State: An Interview with Josep Borrell
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Spain’s Foreign Minister\, former President of the European Parliament and FMA member\, Josep Borrell was interviewed on 31 May 2018 \nhttps://youtu.be/V4OmFLNytrQ[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/leaders-beyond-the-state-an-interview-with-josep-borrell/
CATEGORIES:School of Transnational Governance
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