Sussex in Europe
the website of the Sussex branch of the European Movement

The European Movement
Encouraging local communities in Britain to play a leading role in a strong, democratic and reformed Europe.  The International European Movement was inspired by Winston Churchill's Zurich speech in 1948, when he urged the recreation of the European family following the end of the Second World War.  The movement has no political party affiliation.  November 2007 saw a refreshed movement re-launched in the Houses of Parliament.
The Sussex branch is one of ten in the south-east, and covers both East and West Sussex - there is also a separate branch set up in Eastbourne.
 


Events coming up soon

Tuesday 24 January (London) Justice, freedom and security
Friday 27 January (London) Where next for the €urozone?
Thurs 23 February (Tonbridge) West Kent annual dinner
Monthly in Brighton
Sussex branch stall
at the Jubilee Library

every 3rd Saturday afternoon of the month
Europe matters
Come to open meetings held each month
The next meeting will be on

Saturday 18 February.

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Notices for members
(below)

Annual seminar 2011 - Europe and the 'Arab Spring'

The Sussex branch AGM for 2011

François Duchêne travel bursaries –
awards in 2011

Citizenship teachers and advisers
on Brussels visit

Letters in Sussex newspapers
Book reviews

Archive - revisit previous years

Why are there special features
on central and eastern Europe?

The European Movement in Sussex was joined in 2004 by Lewes Links, an organisation which was set up in 1992 to forge links and to promote better understanding of central and eastern Europe.  As countries in those areas opened to contacts with western Europe, Lewes Links aimed to involve Sussex people in creating and sustaining links with people and organisations in the eastern half of Europe.

In May 2004 some of the countries where these contacts had been built were welcomed into the European Union, and another two in January 2007.  Other countries still aspire to join, and the concept of a European identity goes well beyond the borders of the EU.

This website continues to provide recent news and background from the central and eastern European countries (see top right & right-hand panel).

See the Lewes Links archive

Central & Eastern Europe
Recent news items

(updated 26 January 2012)

   EU set to broaden criteria for sanctions on Belarus officials
   Low turnout but Croatia's EU accession supported by 66% of voters
   Hungarian Prime Minister defends his policies in European Parliament
   Bulgarian parliament bans shale gas drilling using 'fracking' method
   Findings by Polish investigators at odds with Russian report on Smolensk crash
   Albanian opposition criticises acquittal of former PM

   Environmental activists resist mining project in Armenian forest
   Economic crisis hits Bosnian heritage sites
   Bleak fate in prospect for Hungarian national airline Malév

   Huge Moscow rally protests against Russian election results
   Yulia Tymoshenko loses appeal against jail term
   Former Czech president Václav Havel has died

country & topic index

What's on
music, arts, theatre
from central & eastern Europe

Societies

Sussex Russian Society
the next meeting will be
Monday 13 February, in Lewes.


Sussex Hungarian Society

Sussexi Magyar Kulturális Szövetség

Eastbourne Hungarian Society


Contacts for Polish organisations


Central & Eastern Europe

Index of recent news
by country and by topics

Indexed map of central & eastern Europe

To view some pages in this section correctly you need to have multilingual [UTF-8], or Central European [ISO 8859-2] and Cyrillic [KOI-8R] fonts installed in your browser.  Up-to-date browsers should have these automatically.

European Parliament elections
Thursday, 4-7 June 2009

see the results for 10 central European countries

 

Europe in Sussex

The Sussex branch AGM
29 January 2011

The 2011 university travel bursaries commemorating François Duchêne
were announced on 3 December 2011.


Citizenship teachers and advisers
from West Sussex made an intensive study visit to the European Commission and Parliament


Letters in Sussex newspapers

Book reviews

Reports and resumés

Europe, her southern neighbours, and Turkey
From early in 2011, the 'Arab Spring' throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East captivated the world. In this year's annual seminar five experts looked at different aspects of how the European Union would react to developments in its southern neighbours.
Click here to see issues discussed at the seminar

Lisbon - Expectations and Realities
how the European Union is changing

Speakers leading the discussions at the annual seminar held on 3 October 2010 were Lord Hannay, Brendan Donnelly and Richard Corbett.
Texts from their notes can be downloaded

Life as a new member of the European Parliament
On 24 April 2010 Catherine Bearder described her early experience as a new MEP
.
Click for a summary of her talk and the questions that followed

Archive

2011 events
or look back at events in 2005, 2006, 20072008, 2009 or 2010