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.

  

Date for your diary
Monday 12 October
- a lunch  to hear about the Swedish EU Presidency

 

Central & Eastern Europe
Recent news items

(updated 26 June 2009)

   Former Kosovan PM arrested entering Bulgaria
   SkyEurope low-cost airline files for bankruptcy
   President of Ingushetia injured in car bomb attack
   Controversial Justice Minister elected President of Slovakia's Supreme Court
   EU takes new initiative for Belarus
   EU integration depends on Serbia alone
   "Prague declaration" at heart of new European Parliament group
   Latvia's Health Minister resigns over cuts
   New Hungarian property tax to have three bands
   Polish gay march gets UK ambassador criticised
   European Parliament election results in the central European states
  French PM links low turnout at EU elections to 'unacceptable' Czech EU presidency

 

country & topic index

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


Societies

Sussex Russian Society
the next meeting is on
Monday 8 June.


Sussex Hungarian Society
please see a questionnaire to help plan future activities


Contacts for Polish organisations




use the Search form

E-mail us!
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Click here for a form to join



Notices for members
(below)

François Duchêne travel bursaries –
2009 awards and 2008 reports

Behind the Czech Presidency of the EU

Citizenship teachers and advisers
on Brussels visit

Study weekend with
guests from Germany

Reports and resumés from recent events

Letters in Sussex newspapers
Book reviews

Archive - 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

The 2009 university travel bursaries commemorating François Duchêne
were announced on 9 May, and reports on last year's work heard.


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


Guests from Germany

Over the weekend of 27-29 June 2008 guests from the Aumühle-Wohltorf branch of the European Movement, joined us in a series of three study sessions on current issues.


Letters in Sussex newspapers

Book reviews

Reports and resumés

Behind the Czech EU Presidency
Zdeněk Kavan
,  Lecturer in  International Relations at the University of Sussex, gave an insight into Czech society and politics, which provide a context for the Czech Presidency of the EU.
Click here to see a summary of his talk and the lively round of questions and answers that followed.

The EU Presidency of France
Diégo Colas
, Conseiller politique - Ambassade de France à Londres, described some of the key issues facing the French Presidency of the EU in 2008.
click for some notes on his talk

Slovenija and the EU Presidency
Francis King
, formerly director of the British Council in Ljubljana, talked about Slovenija at a dinner on 17 July 2008.
click for some notes on what he said


Life after Lisbon
On 23 May 2008 a seminar looked at issues following from the Treaty of Lisbon.
click for a review of some key issues

 

Archive

2008 events

or look back at events in 2005, 2006 or 2007