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Claire Hanna is MP for Belfast South, and a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. She will discuss Brexit from the perspective of a Northern Ireland politician who is deeply committed to ensuring that the Northern Ireland protocol works and the Good Friday Agreement is protected.

Get into the weeds of the environmental impacts of Brexit with this fascinating in-depth talk.  Warwick District for Europe are hosting two experts in Emilien Gasc, the EU Delegation to the UK’s Climate & Environment Officer, and Natalie Bennett, Green Party peer, to hear about the climate impacts of the UK-EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement and the EU Green Deal.

Brexit is far from ‘done’. The government is taking an increasingly confrontational approach with our European allies. At the same time, the same government is threatening not only ministerial accountability and the rights of Parliament, but also the judiciary, the media and even the freedom of peaceful assembly. To achieve this it is shamelessly exploiting the bandwidth taken up by coronavirus and the Royal Family to distract from its plans. For years we have taken for granted that liberal values…

Brexit’s impact on UK devolution has been a major issue since the EU referendum. How has the UK's departure from the EU impacted the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales? Is devolution in crisis after Brexit and Covid-19? And what do the public think about devolution? Discussion with: Professor Sir John Curtice, Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde Professor Ailsa Henderson, Principal Investigator for the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study Professor Richard…

Speakers: Andrew Adonis (Peer, and former government minister and adviser) Laura Parker (former Momentum National Coordinator) Jackie Jones (former MEP, Welsh AM candidate) Paula Surridge (senior lecturer at the University of Bristol's School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies) At this, a fringe event for the European Movement conference, Labour for a European Future is bringing together voices from across the Labour movement to discuss what Labour should do about Europe. This is the moment when things are, arguably, as…

Webinar with Peter Jukes, Byline Times, and Mike Galsworthy, Scientists for Europe, and Q&A.

Webinar with Tonia Antonazzi MP and Mick Antoniw MS on the future of Wales post-Brexit.

A week of online workshops, informative webinars, panel discussions, and interactive networking sessions as part of the #OurHomeOurVote campaign! With over 16 events to choose from you’ll learn new skills, discuss important issues with leaders in the field, debate relevant topics and, most importantly, have fun!

The Oxford Series of webinar discussions with senior pro-European Conservatives continues when Oxford Region branch of the European Movement welcomes Sajjad Karim. An MEP for 15 years for North West England, he fought back against an attempt to expel him for his opposition to Brexit and survived. He's now on the EM's National Council, helping to reach the liberal Conservatives whose votes will be key to our return to leadership at the heart of Europe.

As Best for Britain moves from a temporary campaign to a permanent organisation promoting internationalist values and working with the world, we wanted set out what we believe in. Speakers: Emily Thornberry MP, The Rt Hon. Sir David Lidington, Caroline Lucas MP, and former UK Ambassador to the US, Sir Peter Westmacott. We want Britain to be a trusted, leading and democratic trading ally that pursues multilateralist solutions to global problems. That starts with repairing our relationship with Europe.  We…

Discussion among participants on European matters.

Discussion with Richard Hewison, candidate from the Rejoin Party in the GLA elections

‘Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe: What Next for the EU?’ Edited by James Organ and Alberto Alemanno. Speakers include Prof. Ulrike Liebert, Laura Sullivan (Executive director of WeMove Europe), and Prof. Andreas Gross.

Make your voice heard this Europe Day 9 May 2021 is a call to action. Take part and help to write the future of Europe. Learn what’s happening and get involved, wherever you are.

Europe depends on workers moving. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed vulnerabilities of these workers that preexisted the health crisis: mobile workers are more at risk of exploitation, less likely to be well represented by trade unions and national authorities, and have many specific needs when it comes to information, to social protection and access to health services, to secure housing and the possibility of crossing borders to care for their families.  Now it is time to move on from precarious…

Europe Day echoes our founder Robert Schuman’s appeal of May 9, 1950: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’ We believe highlighting and celebrating all the various pan European efforts and achievements to make our continent a more inclusive, more democratic, more culturally aware, better place to live, is a contemporary translation of Schuman’s appeal. We will be launching…

Crucial elections take place across the UK on 6 May. The result in Scotland could have huge consequences for the UK's future. The election in Wales is the most unpredictable since devolution. And across England, voters will elect the mayors of London and other English cities, 39 police and crime commissioners and several thousand councillors. The impact on the national political debate could be significant. To make sense of the results and analyse what they mean, the Institute for Government will be holding a special post-election expert discussion…

Mairead McGuinness is the European Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union. She served as an MEP from Ireland for 16 years, and was a Vice-President of the Parliament since 2014. As Vice-President, she oversaw relations with national Parliaments, led the Parliament’s dialogue with religious and philosophical organisations, and had responsibility for the Parliament’s communication policy. During her time in the Parliament, Ms McGuinness sat on a range of committees, covering agriculture, environment, public health, budgets, petitions…

David O’Sullivan, a distinguished European civil servant from Ireland and former Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, will deliver the Inaugural ‘European Spirit of Peace’ Lecture from the Hume Foundation, an organisation that draws inspiration from the life and work of John and Pat Hume who brought peaceful change to millions of people across Ireland and the UK.

Guy Wilkinson chair of Salisbury for Europe will respond to our guest speaker, Ian Parsley, a leading Northern Ireland commentator. There will be a Q&A session afterwards and European Movement's 'Stories of Brexit'

Richard Corbett, former Labour MEP and well-informed speaker will explain the background to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and discuss the fallout, followed by Q&A Sometimes UK public opinion shifts overwhelmingly against something it initially supported (e.g. Suez, Iraq) when it turns out to be a disaster. Sometimes events cause rapid change. Will the same happen with Brexit? There are numerous consequences of Brexit which are not receiving sufficient publicity. Leaving the EU came at a huge cost to the UK…

Federal Union AGM, followed by a talk by Richard Corbett on the Brexit situation and the Conference on the Future of Europe Speaker: Richard Corbett CBE Former MEP and leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party; Honorary Vice Chair of the European Movement

Livia Pye and Scott Kimber (via London4Europe) invite you to the second instalment of their Facebook Fundamentals Workshops. This provides a good tour around what goes on in the Ad Manager and how to use it effectively.  The Workshop will cover how to set up and execute FB ads in the correct way and how to find your way around the Ad Dashboard. You will learn how to test the audience and create different types of ads.  

The UK's service industries have been left effectively with no deal. In this online event, representatives from various service sectors will outline the problems they face. There will be an opportunity for questions.

A panel discussion on the consequences of Brexit for the rights of UK and EU citizens, with key speakers, part of the Stories of Brexit campaign run by the European Movement,

The deadline for EU nationals living in the UK to apply for Settled Status is fast approaching, so it's vital anyone who hasn't yet secured their rights to live and work here does so asap.  We are pleased to announce our next immigration advice event for EU nationals living in the UK will take place on Monday 24 May at 6.30pm and is free to attend for anyone, regardless of where they live. Our legal panel will provide up-to-date information about settled status, naturalisation and everything in between.…

This roundtable brings academics and community leaders together following the 2021 elections and with only a month before the EU Settlement Scheme deadline. Prof Tanja Bueltmann and Dr Alexandra Bulat will present preliminary findings from their survey of over 2,000 EU citizens, focussing on identity, belonging and representation post-Brexit. This will be followed by roundtable interventions from a variety of perspectives, reflecting on community responses from EU citizens in post-Brexit UK. Speakers will include representatives of key migrants’ rights organisations…

This talk explores the ways in which individuals can acquire and lose EU citizenship, and discusses how these have transformed over the last two decades. Being a status exclusively linked to Member State nationality, EU citizenship reveals an uneven landscape of mechanisms for obtaining the rights of membership by virtue of birth or naturalisation.  The talk will also explore the variety of ways in which one can cease to be an EU citizen. Jelena Dzankic's presentation will be followed by a…

Tonight’s livestream will focus on raising awareness about #SettlementStatus We will be joined by members of @CitzRights who provide support for EU/EEA nationals to access #SettledStatus @DrDMacaskill will also share is concerns about older EU/EEA nationals and care workers

Martyn Bond will describe the original ideas, history and background of the EU, the world's most successful unique trading zone. Recognising the origins of the EU - aiming to avoid a repeat of the 1930s and 1940s - helps us appreciate this amazing collaborative peace project, in which the sharing of sovereignty between nation states provides greater sovereign power for all.  He has published several books on Europe - his latest came out in April this year, entitled: "Hitler's Cosmopolitan…

This is not the greatest moment to be a pro-European in the Labour Party. But there is so much to fight for - as long as we keep going, there is always the possibility of changing minds and changing the country. But we need to know what we're going to do, and to discuss the political landscape before us. Those are questions this conference aims to answer. Our keynote speaker is Jack Dromey MP (Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office,…

Brexit had a devastating effect on EU citizenship.  Roxana Barbulescu's presentation will be followed by a Roundtable with the other speakers in the series.  This will be followed by a Q&A.

Join Mike Buckley, Laura Parker (Labour for a New Democracy) and former MEP Seb Dance to talk about what's changed five years since the referendum, and what Labour can do next to set things right. Further speakers tbc.

The pain of Brexit is growing by the month. Yet our Government and the popular press continue as if it were a triumph. Current evidence is that public opinion in the UK is remarkably resistant to evidence. How is the UK seen by others? In this meeting we will be getting the perspectives of two political commentators who were born in other EU countries and live in England. Speakers: Alex Andreou, a man of many parts, best known to us…

In this event series, Lewisham East for Europe will be hosting short presentations to give you a flavour of life in different European cities and districts. They start with the Italian city of Trieste, former ‘spy capital’ of Europe where east meets west, introduced by their member Max Calo.

The UK's supply lines are under severe strain.  Supermarkets have stock and supply chain challenges. Staff shortages are being reported in haulage and food production and while these issues are being reported in other countries, the UK seems to be worst affected. Speakers:  Andrew Opie, Director of Food and Sustainability, British Retail Consortium;  Richard Harrow, Chief Executive, British Frozen Food Federation;  Representative from Logistics UK

This high-level event will examine the challenges faced by the cultural sector/creative industries in the post-BREXIT environment and how Parliaments and stakeholders can work together to find solutions. The chairs of the committees responsible for the cultural sector in the European Parliament and the House of Commons will be joined by a distinguished industry representative for a timely and insightful discussion.

For the UK to re-engage with the EU our trade policies will need to align, which is one reason why the Tories are so keen to conclude new trade deals even if they bring no economic benefit, and in some cases actually harm UK industries. What should Labour do in response to this - and what should our future trade policy be? Speakers include former MEP Michael Hindley. More speakers TBC.

Be inspired by Prof. AC Grayling's practical suggestions on how and when we might Rejoin...! As a committed pro-European, defender of democracy and active philosopher he will share his views on starting the path to rejoin the EU sooner rather than later. Suggestions include combining pro-EU forces and collaboration to achieve a change of UK policy towards Europe. Followed by live Q&A session.

Q&A with Prof AC Grayling on how and when the UK will rejoin the EU and what we can do to make it happen sooner rather than later.

Professor AC Grayling will be talking about rejoining the European Union: how and when, and what we need to do to make it happen sooner rather than later – with some very practical suggestions included.

The former Director of the Federal Trust, Dr Martyn Bond, will be discussing his most recent book “Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard,” a biography of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. Coudenhove-Kalergi (RCK) was a central figure in the history of European integration before and after the Second World War, arguing for a united Europe based initially on shared popular enthusiasm throughout Europe rather than on institutional structures.

The aim of this webinar will be to highlight difficulties and challenges that Brexit has thrown up for UK artists and performers and try to discern solutions to this new reality. Though the focus will be on the music industry, many of the issues are shared by artists and organisations in other cultural fields. Our three panel experts will be Professor Linda Merrick (Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), Paul Pacifico (CEO of the Association of Independent…

Dmitry Suslov will discuss the formation and practice of Russian national strategy in a multipolar world. He will describe how national objectives and their achievement are developed within Russian state institutions, as well as the evolution of national strategy over the past two decades. Christopher Coker, Director of LSE IDEAS will chair.  

A look at the impact leaving the EU has had on some of Britain's small import and export businesses.

Join Professor Andy Jordan for this Cambridge for Europe event to discuss Environmental Policy after Brexit in Britain and the EU.

Given the importance of the Protocol for EU-UK relations and the future of the Shared Island, the next Conference of the DCU Brexit Institute, on "The Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland", is timely. The event will be opened by Simon Coveney, TD, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, and feature a keynote speech of Maros Sefcovic, Vice President of the European Commission, and Chief EU Brexit Negotiator. The Conference features a stellar cast of speakers from leading universities in…

Gavin Esler is a Scottish journalist, television presenter and author. He is author of five novels and four non-fiction books the latest of which is How Britain Ends. In How Britain Ends (February 2021), Gavin explores the possibility of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reinventing itself or, as the title suggests, coming to an end.

Denis MacShane has had a colourful, often controversial life as a journalist-politician in Labour over many years, standing for Parliament in 1974 and being the best Europe Minister of any government until the calamity of Brexit struck. His account of why Labour is so good at losing elections makes fascinating reading. His unique insight comes from 15 years work with trade unions and progressive political movement in Europe and overseas. His book is personal, political and full of insights. Much of…

Hope & fear in politics & technology: shaping values, creating identities for a new era, with Rory Cellan Jones, former BBC News' technology correspondent and Paula Surridge, deputy director, UK in a Changing Europe. Paula is a senior lecturer in Sociology, Politics and International Studies, with special Interest in social and political values. Moderator: Adam Sykes, the founder and CEO of Livepoint, specialising in business automation.

The idea has arisen that Scotland/the UK should re-join the single market and/or Customs Union - join us for our webinar to discuss this with Philippa Whitford MP, SNP Commons spokesman on Europe (and health); David Broucher, a former UK diplomat/ambassador in, among other places, Bonn and Prague; Peter Sellar, an EU lawyer specialising in regulatory affairs and author of a paper on this topic for the Scottish Independence Convention. The discussion will be chaired by Vanessa Glynn, former FCO…

Michael Dougan, Professor of European Law at Liverpool University, will give a Zoom talk bringing us up to date on the UK v EU relationship, Brexit effects and the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Talk by Terry Reintke, a German MEP since 2014. She is vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and the group's coordinator for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is co-president of the LGBTI Intergroup and founder of the EU-UK Friendship Group. Terry Reintke studied political science in Berlin and Edinburgh.

European Movement UK has teamed up with European Movement Wandsworth and Merton to deliver a training session and campaign pack for groups who want to make inroads with their business communities.

A discussion with Neale Richmond TD and Susanne Oberhauser chaired by Dr Peter Burke. Neale Richmond is the Fine Gael TD (MP) for the constituency of Dublin Rathdown and the party’s spokesperson on European Affairs. He sits on both the European Affairs and Finance Committees in the Irish Parliament. A regular contributor to British and international media on all things Brexit, Neale is a committed European and looks forward to the UK re-joining the EU as soon as possible. Susanne…

Zoom talk by Mike Buckley, Director, Labour for a European Future, followed by Q&A.

Yannis Karamitsios makes the case for the creation of a European federal state that would succeed the EU, its member states and other European nations, while retaining their competences on issues of national character. Professor Colin Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Manchester and a Senior Research Fellow of the Federal Trust, will respond.

The conference will include eminent speakers on the crisis in the rule of law covering migration, the supremacy of EU law and Eastern European perspectives. It will be hosted by the Central European University's Democracy Institute, in partnership with the DCU Brexit Institute, and the other members of the BRIDGE consortium -- the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen and the University of Copenhagen. This is the third partners' conference of the Jean Monnet Network BRIDGE.

C4E would like to welcome you to an online meeting with Sir Graham Watson, former MEP, committed European and internationalist. This will be an excellent opportunity to find out more about the EU, and find out how we can maintain links with Europe, and what will be effective in our campaign to re-align with and re-join the EU. Sir Graham Watson is a multilingual British Liberal Democrat politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for South West…

The music industry has been one of the UK's major success stories in recent times, but Brexit threatens this success. Brexit has had a major impact on the ability of UK musicians and their essential support staff to continue to perform in the EU and has similarly impeded EU performers wishing to bring their entertainment to the UK. Small and up-and-coming acts have been particularly hard hit, as they lack the resources to overcome the barriers that have been erected…

An event to coincide with the launch of our new Policy report. The report looks at how the UK is doing policy differently after Brexit across a number of different areas including tax, immigration, agriculture and trade. Speakers: Robert Colvile, Commentator, The Sunday Times Matthew Holehouse, British Politics Correspondent, The Economist Sarah Hall, Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe Jonathan Portes, Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe Joël Reland, Researcher, UK in a Changing Europe Chair: Jill Rutter,…

The Conference on the Future of Europe is an ongoing series of citizen-led discussions that aims to enable people from across Europe to share their ideas and to be part of the shaping of a common future. This event will discuss what it means for the future of both the UK and the EU, and how people based in the UK can get involved. Speakers: CATHERINE BEARDER, MEP for the South East (2009 - 2020), Leader of the Liberal Democrats…

Former diplomat Alexandra Hall-Hall will discuss questions submitted in advance by you, our audience. In the midst of Brexit chaos, Westminster turmoil and enough lockdown-breaking revelations to take down any normal Government, Alexandra Hall-Hall will give us her insider take on what’s going wrong in UK politics. Alex quit her role as a diplomat in December 2019, saying she was dismayed by Brexit “half-truths” coming from Westminster. Now she has a reputation for exposing this Government’s anti-democratic agenda in her…

The Institute for Government is delighted to welcome Sir John Major to give a keynote speech on the issue of trust and standards in a democracy. This event will be available to watch live, online, to anyone who would like to register. It will be chaired by Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government, and questions to the former Prime Minister can be submitted remotely during the event.

The meeting will explore the current challenges affecting migration throughout Europe. Thirty years ago the Maastricht Treaty was signed, creating today’s ‘European Union’ and representing the biggest single transformative text on European integration since the Treaty of Rome in 1958. As internal barriers began to fall, new walls and policies have risen between Europe and the rest of the world. How did Maastricht treaty affect migration through and to Europe? How have migration policies developed today? Speakers: Sophie Magennis (@Magenniss),…

Nadia Calviño Santamaría will explore the economic prospects for Spain and the European Union with Iain Begg. Nadia Calviño Santamaría (@NadiaCalvino) is First Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Economy and Digital Transformation. Iain Begg (@IainBeggLSE) is a Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research work is on the political economy of European integration and EU economic governance. Chair: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (@rodriguez_pose), the Princesa de Asturias…

Polly Toynbee will share her widespread knowledge of the interconnectedness between Brexit and Austerity. Her talk is based on her book,(written with David Walker) "The Lost Decade".

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence REBUILD ('Recovery of Europe, Budget of the Union: Integration, Law & Democracy') is a brand new project set up by the DCU Brexit Institute, funded under the EU Erasmus+ programme, and led by Professor Federico Fabbrini. The aim of REBUILD is to examine in depth the innovative €750bn Next Generation EU (NGEU) Recovery Fund, put together by the EU institutions and the member states to respond to the devastating socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19…

A talk with journalist and broadcaster Michael Crick who will be speaking about his new biography One Party After Another, which explores how Nigel Farage did it, despite never once managing to get elected to Parliament. Chaired by Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy and Visiting Professor in LSE Department of Government.

A meeting with Caroline Voaden, former MEP for SW England and Gibraltar. Caroline led the Lib Dem list in the SW in the European elections in May 2019, following which she went on to lead the Lib Dem group in Brussels from November until the end of their mandate. Before her election as an MEP Caroline worked as a Reuters journalist, a freelance editor and ran her own business in South Devon. Caroline’s work as a journalist led her to…

The war in Ukraine has transformed thinking about almost every aspect of the European Union, from security to energy, and put the spotlight on its central and east European member states. How does it affect the future of democracy in Central Europe? Speaker:  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Jūra Neverauskaitė, a Master’s student of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bath, will share her thoughts on Ukraine and explain why pressure is needed to help those still trapped in a war zone.

Launch of National Rejoin March on Sixteen Million Rising radio programme to download.

Join the next online Zoom talk from NES4EU: How has leaving the Single Market affected trade with the EU? Have supply chains been affected? Can the Brexit effect be separated from other factors? How will this affect us? Register via the Eventbrite link

Now that the Conference on the Future of Europe has finalised its recommendations, the time has come to listen to citizens’ proposals and provide them with a clear perspective on how to implement the ambitious ideas they have put forward. It is of the utmost importance to ensure that they are followed by tangible proposals.

The Liberal Democrats have put forward a 4-point plan for renewing our links with the EU that includes rejoining Erasmus-Plus and, at the end, the single market. But is that enough for bodies like our own which campaign for eventually becoming full EU members again?  Join David Clarke, EMiS vice-chair, who will be interviewing Willie Rennie.

Online discussion on the current state of play with Brexit with Professor Catherine Barnard. Catherine is Professor of EU law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, and deputy director of UK in a Changing Europe. She is one of the UK’s most respected experts on EU law and the relationship between the UK and the EU, and in the run up to and after the 2016 referendum became one of the most in-demand commentators on Brexit. With the…

Jonty Bloom is an award winning journalist, public speaker and conference chair who left the BBC in 2019 after thirty years at the corporation, and is now a freelance journalist. For the last 5 years Jonty has specialised in covering the UK’s relationship with the EU, trade policy and above all Brexit.

Our hyper-centralised Westminster government is no longer working for so many people - but what is the alternative? This hybrid event (in person and online) is a conversation about national identity, devolution, and independence. But it's also a discussion about electoral reform, the need for a written constitution, and the wholesale democratic renewal we all need. Journalist and former presenter of Newsnight Gavin Esler has travelled around the country documenting the rise of nationalism in all four nations, and considering…