The conference will address the historical context of divorce, aspects of separation of powers between state and church, the discrimination brought about by the non-availability of divorce, as well as the social and economic effects of divorce. All the topics will benefit from the input of European experts, particularly from European countries that also had long struggles before legalising divorce.

More details on the program of the conference will follow soon.

Event details:

Date: 23 October 2010
Venue: St Julian's, Malta
Language: English and Maltese (with simultaneous interpretation)

The publication "European Citizens' Initiative Handbook: Your Guide to the First Transnational Democratic Tool" is being realised at GEF's initiative by the Initiative and Referendum Institut Europe. The handbook will help to understand the initiative as an instrument of modern direct democracy, will give an overview of the future use of the ECI instrument, as well as of the further political challenges that need to be overcome in order to make the instrument an easily accessible one to all European citizens. The handbook will be available in English, French and German.

For information related to the council meeting of the European Green Party, please refer to the EGP's website.

Event details:

Date: 9 October 2010, 14.30h (during the EGP council meeting, 8-10 October 2010)
Venue: Tallinn, Estonia
Language: English 

The opening panel of the event will discuss the financing of political parties, with an emphasis on the issues of transparency and the necessity to diminish corruption associated to party financing. Other topics addressed, among others, will be corruption related problems with privativazation and outsourcing of public services and questions related to transparency of public policy. An updated agenda will be available soon.

The Green European Foundation is also arranging a small seminar parallel to this meeting, which will deal with transparent party fundrasing.

Event details:

Date: 17 - 19 September 2010
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
Language: English (simultaneous interpretation into Hungarian will be offered).

Activists and representatives from formal and informal GMO-free regions, GMO-free initiatives from all over Europe are welcomed to join. For more information please visit the website of the event. 

Event details

Date: 16-18 September 2010
Venue: European Parliament - Brussels, Belgium
Language: English 

Further details on the 5th edition of the Green Economics conference can be found on the website of the Green Economics Institute.

Event details:

Date: 29-31 July 2010
Venue: Mansfield College, Oxford University (Oxford, UK)
Language: English

More details regarding the program, as well as the registration procedure can be found on the summer university website.

Event details:

Date: 29.07 - 01.08 2010
Venue: Beire, Navarra, Spain
Languages: Spanish

Although debates and discussions on the financial and economic crisis are abundant at the national levels, they have not reached much beyond national borders. The round table "My Greater Region in 2030" aims to bring together and identify regional visions on the potential development of the Luxembourg and Greater Region Euro-region, starting from the seemingly naive question "Where do I see "my" Greater Region in 2030?"

The Euro-region Luxembourg and the Greater Region

Luxembourg and the Greater Region is the most multilateral of the over 70 cross-border regions in Europe, including Luxembourg, the French and German speaking communities in Belgium, the Lorraine province in France and the Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz departments in Germany. The region numbers approximately 11,2 million inhabitants.

Event details:

Date: 17 June 2010
Venue: Espace Culturel Carré Rotonde, 1 Rue de l'Aciérie, Luxembourg
Time: 18.00 - 20.00
Language: German (simultaneous interpretation in French)

Welcome: Daniela Graf, Member of the Board, Green European Foundation
Speakers:

• Simone Peter, Minister of Environment, Transport & Energy - Saarland Dept., Germany
• Jacques Santer, former President of the European Commission, former Luxembourg Prime-Minister and currently President of the Committee Vision 2020 for the Greater Region
• Christophe Langenbrink, Editor for the Greater Region at Luxemburger Wort
• Frédérique Gueth, Manager for the Greater Region of 1, 2, 3 GO
• Jean-Claude Reding, President of the Trade Union Federation OGB-L

Moderator: Robert Garcia, President Gréng Steftung

The Summer Academy proposes a series of debates and workshops on a variety of topics: the current challenges of the neoliberal financial and economic system and alternative ways out, the global food crisis, the global justice movement, to mention but a few. Gender and eco-activism trainings will be mainstreamed throughout the program of the entire academy. Members of the European Parliament and experts from all over Europe will take part in the academy, thus extending the outreach of the debates beyond the CEE region.

More details on the event, as well as the regsitration procedure can be found here.

Event details:

Date: 21 - 25 July 2010
Venue: Camp Meteor, Horány (Hungary)
Languages: English, Hungarian
Experts: to be announced

Event details:

Date: postponed (initially planned for 29 May 2010)
Venue: Museum of History of Catalonia, Barcelona
Time: 10.00
Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan

More details will be available soon, including the new date of the event.

Twentyfour participants from sixteen European countries attended the training. The seminar was conceptualized as a combination of lectures, workshops, debates and educational role-play games. All these offered an opportunity to the participants to learn about the history of economic thoughts, to understand the main differences between the various economic systems, as well as to grasp the concepts of growth and development.

The training was carried out without cancelling any session, despite the difficulties posed by the volcanic eruption in Iceland which did not permit the contracted European resource persons to travel to Serbia. Local speakers were swiftly arranged, and the preparatory team asumed the responsibility of carrying out certain parts of the agenda. The feedback of the participants' was positive, which is an encouraging sign for the follow-up of this training, for a more advanced level of economic knowledge, in autumn 2010.

Event details:

Date: 13 - 18 April 2010
Venue: Opovo, Serbia
Language: English
Speakers: - Andra Molojic, Deputy Director - Serbian Statistics Office/ National Accounts Department
                 - Dragana Mladenovic, Environment Protection Fund (Serbia)
                 - Sandra Simic, Advisor on Monitoring and Development - Serbian Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning