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.

Central & Eastern Europe
Recent news items

(updated 09 May 2008)

   Bulgarian PM promises to eliminate corruption
   Russia's new President inaugurated
   Slovakia should join euro zone in 2009

   50,000 British football fans expected in Moscow
   Polish government drops opposition to EU-Russia talks
   Kosovo Serbs aim to form their own parliament
   Russia says Abkhaz rebels shot down Georgian spy plane
   Teletubbies critic resigns before being voted out

   Latvian voters may get power to throw Parliament out
   Belarussian government considers scrapping 12-year schooling

   Gazprom proposes routing South Stream pipeline to by-pass Austria
   Moldovan President and Transdnestr leader agree to meet

country & topic index

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


Societies

Sussex Russian Society
next meeting Monday 12 May
recently added to this page -
Русский Час tv

Sussex Hungarian Society

Next events

The European Parliament in an enlarged EU
25 April  (London)

Olli Rehn, European Commissioner
for Enlargement - widening or deepening?   30 April (London)

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Find out more about
the Speak up Europe initiative


Notices for members (below)

Do you speak European?
a creative competition for schools
The German Presidency dinner

Oliver Hayward
receives award
Reports and resumés
The Goodwood EU50 conference
Letters in Sussex newspapers
Book reviews

Local societies
Reports and resumés from recent events
revisit previous years


 

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

Index of recent news
by country and by topics

Indexed map of central & eastern Europe

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Europe in Sussex

Do you speak European?
schools from four southern counties took part in a creative competition for schools


Oliver Hayward receives award
from the German government


Letters in Sussex newspapers


Book reviews


Archive

2007 events

or look back at  events in 2005 or 2006

Reports and resumés

The EU Presidency of Portugal
Israel Saraiva described the issues handled by Portugal at a lunch on 23 November 2007
click for an account of his talk


European Movement re-launched
on 21 November 2007 the national movement welcomed its new President Charles Kennedy MP, who emphasised the significance of re-launching the Movement

Slovenija and the EU
at an evening meeting organised by the West Kent branch on 10 November 2007, Bojan Škoda talked about the progress made since joining the EU.
click for an account of some of the issues


Germany's EU Presidency
Michael Siebert reviewed the ups and downs of the period at a Presidency lunch on 9 July 2007
click for some notes on his talk


Europe, the next 50 years
a report and more detailed notes from the conference at Goodwood House on 28 March celebrating the 50th anniversary of the EU