"It is a common occurrence that gender issues are marginalised within the European political sphere." said FEPS Secretary General Ernst Stetter in the foreword of this new book which gathered the contributions of the third Transatlantic Gender Dialogue, part of the well-established and...
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Here is the main message from the debate which took place on 18th February at FEPS office with Emma Reynolds, Massimo D’Alema, Jo Leinen, Giles Merritt and Will Straw in the context of the publication of a FEPS/IPPR Publication “Staying in: winning the argument to keep Britain in the EU”
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En amont des célébrations pour les 50 ans du Traité de l'Elysée, la FEPS a organisé avec les sections Bruxelloises du PS français et du SPD allemand une soirée débat qui a rassemblé, avec succès, plus de 80 personnes de plusieurs générations. Retrouver les photos et le compte-rendu.
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In the run-up of the European Council meeting in December when President Van Rompuy will present the final version of his Report, President of FEPS, Massimo D'Alema attended a high level conference in Brussels on 28 November which focuses on the future development of the European Union.
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FEPS in collaboration with three Hungarian think tanks the Táncsics Foundation, the József Attila Foundation and Policy Solutions organised on Friday 16th November an event, in Budapest, on Democracy, Liberty and Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The Fourth transatlantic seminar on gender equality took place In FEPS office on 18-19 October. Like in the previous years, FEPS is planning to publish the articles of the conference. You can already have a look on the pictures
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The participants of the forum tried to find answers and look for a common denominator for the participatory tools for future development of the European Union and Latvia.
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The aim of the seminar, organized by FEPS, Fondazione Italianieuropei and the Centro per la Riforma dello Stato, was to involve scholars and politicians into a debate on the implications of the emergence of these movements in the European political scenario, and for the evolution of democracy.
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FEPS together with the European Forum for Solidarity and Democracy organized the third, final event in the framework of the Copenhagen revisited research programme from 18 to 22 June 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. After having discussed the lessons learnt and the challenges ahead, this third seminar...
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This study in French by Ghislaine Toutain presents the findings of the FEPS-FJJ seminar “Femmes d’Europe, entre elles”
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Report on the second fact finding mission within the “Copenhagen revisited research project”, conducted in Turkey from 26 to 29 March 2012
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In what sense are women on the move currently and how does this influence the debate on equality? Taking into account the current crisis, is equality the price to pay for European stability? These were the starting questions of the debate that FEPS initiated with the participants of the ECOSY...
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This provoking question was in the focus of the second seminar in the framework of the research project “Copenhagen revisited”. This research project is realised jointly by FEPS and the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity (EFDS). In addition, the event was supported by the Progress...
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On 18-21 November, Pia Locatelli, President of SI Women and Judit Tánczos, FEPS Policy Advisor were on a study visit in Cairo, meeting local NGOs and party representatives from the left.
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FEPS and the PES Group in the committe of the Regions are organising a series of lunch debates with an invited audience in Brussels, bringing together political experience and outside expertise to challenge existing perceptions and open up to new ideas. The latest debate, on Thursday 10 November,...
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The Hungarian media law symbolizes the need for the European Union to assume its responsibilities to defend media freedom. Interpretations of this law diverge, however. In Hungary, it is seen as the straw that broke the camel’s back, coming on top of a series of laws ...
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After the meetings in Boston and Paris, the third transatlantic seminar on gender issues was given the title « Re-strengthening global sisterhood - Emerging women’s issues for a new global agenda”. The event was organised on 20-21 October in Washington D.C. with the support of the Fondation ...
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Besides research and seminars, two fact-finding missions are also included in the Copenhagen revisited project. The first fact-finding took place in Kosovo on 19-22 September 2011. A small team of representatives from FEPS and the European Forum met politicians from local and national level, ...
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Wed. 7th September saw the kickoff, in Brussels, of the Copenhagen Revisited Project by FEPS and the European Forum, with the support of the Dutch foundations Wiardi Beckman Stichting and Alfred Mozer Stichting.
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The Foundation for European Progressive Studies wishes to express solidarity and sympathy with the people of Norway after the tragedy on 22 July when a fra-right sympathiser murdered 69 young social democratic activists on the Norwegian island of Utoya.
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A survey done for the “Call to Europe” conference organized by FEPS on 29-30 June shows that almost one in two European civil servants think that European integration is evolving negatively and nearly 90% of them are of the opinion that the political authorities must take their responsabilities
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A survey done for the “Call to Europe” conference organized in Brussels by FEPS on 29 and 30 June shows that almost one in two European civil servants think that European integration is evolving negatively and nearly 90% of them are of the opinion that the political authorities ...
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"While JM Barroso should immediately have put out the fire started by the two most active European pyromaniacs of the day, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the Commission is stoking the flames by indirectly admitting himself that 20,000 Tunisian immigrants ...
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This debate focused on competitiveness and convergence, two keywords in the latest cohesion report. It was the first of the serie initiated by the PES at the Committee of the Regions and the Fundation of European Progressive Studies.
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This debate, held in Brussels on Tuesday 26th April was moderated by Mark Rogerson, former BBC correspondent, who focused on competitiveness and convergence, two keywords in the latest cohesion report.
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On 30th June 2009 the German Constitutional Court assessed the compatibility of the Treaty of Lisbon with German law. The Constitutional Court judged that that there are no decisive constitutional objections to the Act Approving the Treaty of Lisbon. At the same time, the Court urged the German...
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