European Movement
events held in Sussex and nearby during 2007
Home study days
Study Days are usually 3 hour afternoon events, held in a private
house.
Saturday 17th February
The Turkey question and Union enlargement
held in Steyning 2 pm - 5 pm. |
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Chatham House Conference
held on
Thursday 22 March 2007The
EU fifty years on
a national conference to celebrate 50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome |
• Geoff Hoon MP, Minister for
Europe on EU achievements
• Wolfgang
Ischinger, German ambassador on plans for EU presidency
• Peter
Mandelson: EC Commissioner for Trade on the future of EU from
Brussels viewpoint
• Question-time
Panel: Professor Richard Whitman (chairman), James Elles
MEP,
Lord Hannay, Denis MacShane MP, Philip
Stephens
• Kenneth
Clarke MP: the way ahead
• Summing
up by Charles Kennedy MP
You can download the programme
for the event here (Word) |
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A Conference
at Goodwood House
held on
Wednesday 28 March 2007
to celebrate 50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome |
Taking part in this Sussex day conference were
Baroness Shirley Williams, Reijo Kemppinen - head of the
European Commission representation in the UK - and Alan Mayhew, Jean
Monnet Professor at the Sussex European Institute. Other topics looked at the Newhaven
regeneration project, community empowerment in East Brighton and group dfiscussions aimed
to involve young people in defining what sort of Europe they want in the next 50 years.
Click here for a report on the event |
Monday 9 July 2007
The German Presidency
an evening dinner at the Europa Gatwick Hotel
Germany took over the EU Presidency from Finland on 1 January
this year,
and handed over the presidency to Portugal on 1 July.
Michael Siebert of the German Embassy in London spoke at the
dinner
about the aims and achievements of the German Presidency from January to June 2007.
Click here for a
short account of what was said |
Home study days
Study Days are usually 3 hour afternoon events, held in a private
house.
the study afternoon planned for Saturday 21 July had
to be postponed
– unfortunately too many members interested in this topic had found this was not a
convenient date.
We'll be looking for another day later.
Study day with tea-time social, on
Issues in the debate on the Constitutional Treaty
to be held near Steyning, West Sussex.
Sarah Leigh will be reporting issues raised at a Wilton Park conference held in Warsaw
on this ongoing topic. |
European events in neighbouring areas
Slovenija and the EU
at an evening meal and talk organised by the West Kent branch
on 10 November 2007,
Bojan Škoda, Counsellor at the Slovenian Embassy, talked about the
progress his country
has made since joining the EU. Some
notes here on what was said.
This page also shows events in Kent, London and Surrey
which might be interesting for members from Sussex. Click here for a listing of
events planned by the Eastbourne branch. |
Friday 23 November 2007
a Presidency lunch
held in The Dining Room, Purchase’s, Chichester
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Portugal took over the EU Presidency from Germany
on 1 July this year, and we were delighted that the First Secretary at the Portuguese
Embassy in London, Senhor Israel Saraiva, accepted our invitation to
speak to us about issues handled by the Presidency during the second half of 2007. This
time we met on a beautifully sunny day at the western end of Sussex, in Chichester. The
restaurant was the Dining Room, in a beautiful Georgian building in North Street which
used to house the wine merchant Arthur Purchase & Sons (run by the same family since
1780 but sadly now no longer in business). |
Click here
to read a short account
of what
Israel Saraiva said. |
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