Showing posts with label Europe Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe Day. Show all posts
2/14/19
European Parliament votes for making 9 May an EU-wide public holiday - by Juuso Järviniemi
On 12 February, by a majority of 459 against 170, the European
Parliament voted for a resolution proposing to establish Europe Day as a
European-wide public holiday. The proposal said that having 9 May as a
public holiday everywhere in the EU would “reinforce a European feeling
of belonging and create space for civic movements and activities”.
The proposal on a European public holiday was one of many included in the non-legally binding resolution on EU citizenship, presented to the European Parliament by the Spanish liberal MEP Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz.
Other proposals in the resolution included the opportunity for citizens to directly apply for membership of a European-level political party. The Parliament also repeated its concern over schemes allowing for investors to indirectly buy EU citizenship.
In May 2018, The New Federalist published an article advocating for 9 May to be made a public holiday for all Europeans. In December 2018, Luxembourg declared Europe Day a public holiday starting from this year. Europe Day is also a public holiday in Kosovo.
Read more at: European Parliament votes for making 9 May an EU-wide public holiday - The New Federalist
The proposal on a European public holiday was one of many included in the non-legally binding resolution on EU citizenship, presented to the European Parliament by the Spanish liberal MEP Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz.
Other proposals in the resolution included the opportunity for citizens to directly apply for membership of a European-level political party. The Parliament also repeated its concern over schemes allowing for investors to indirectly buy EU citizenship.
In May 2018, The New Federalist published an article advocating for 9 May to be made a public holiday for all Europeans. In December 2018, Luxembourg declared Europe Day a public holiday starting from this year. Europe Day is also a public holiday in Kosovo.
Read more at: European Parliament votes for making 9 May an EU-wide public holiday - The New Federalist
5/9/17
Europe Day - May 9, check out all the events in Europe today
of the Schuman Declaration
Celebrate the 67th anniversary
9th May is Europe Day. It involves all of the citizens of the EU because it celebrates the declaration delivered on 9th May 1950 by Robert Schuman. On that day five years after the end of the Second World War French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the initial appeal for the construction of Europe. This declaration announced the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). During the European Council in Milan in 1985 the heads of State and government decided to set 9th May as "Europe Day". Celebrated each year since 1986, Europe Day is the occasion for events and celebrations that draws Europe closer to its citizens.
Read more: fondation robert Schuman
9th May is Europe Day. It involves all of the citizens of the EU because it celebrates the declaration delivered on 9th May 1950 by Robert Schuman. On that day five years after the end of the Second World War French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the initial appeal for the construction of Europe. This declaration announced the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). During the European Council in Milan in 1985 the heads of State and government decided to set 9th May as "Europe Day". Celebrated each year since 1986, Europe Day is the occasion for events and celebrations that draws Europe closer to its citizens.
Read more: fondation robert Schuman
5/11/13
Africa should learn from Europe - by Anne Mugisa
President Yoweri Museveni has said Africa should learn from Europe which has avoided war for the last 60 years and integrated to consolidate its development and economic muscle.
“Europe had difficult times like the 100 year wars, 30 year wars, war of Napoleon, the German war, the First and second World Wars and others. But for 60 years or so, there has been no big war,” Museveni told EU diplomats and their guests at the celebration of the May 9, Europe Day.
The celebrations, which included a cocktail at the residence of the European Union Ambassador to Uganda, Roberto Ridolfi, in Kololo, was also attended by the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.
“I congratulate you for being a world example in those two aspects of avoidance of war and integration and I wish Africans could learn from you. I congratulate you on Pan-Europeanism,” Museveni said.
Read more: Africa should learn from Europe - Museveni
“Europe had difficult times like the 100 year wars, 30 year wars, war of Napoleon, the German war, the First and second World Wars and others. But for 60 years or so, there has been no big war,” Museveni told EU diplomats and their guests at the celebration of the May 9, Europe Day.
The celebrations, which included a cocktail at the residence of the European Union Ambassador to Uganda, Roberto Ridolfi, in Kololo, was also attended by the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.
“I congratulate you for being a world example in those two aspects of avoidance of war and integration and I wish Africans could learn from you. I congratulate you on Pan-Europeanism,” Museveni said.
Read more: Africa should learn from Europe - Museveni
5/9/13
It's Europe Day, but Europeans don't seem to know - by Sara Miller Llana
T oday is Europe Day. It marks a pivotal declaration by French foreign minister for foreign affairs, Robert Schuman, on May 9, 1950, that led to the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and essentially the foundation of the European Union.
n theory, Europe Day should be comparable to Bastille Day in France or the Fourth of July in the US. Instead, it’s hard to find people who actually know what it is.
One history professor did, but this was his take: “It’s nothing.” Pieter Lagrou, a contemporary European history professor at the Free University of Brussels, says he likes to tell his students the obscurity of the holiday marks "the symbolic deficit of Europe.”
The central question of "What is Europe?" is being picked apart across and beyond the continent. In the midst of debt crisis, nations are fighting to get in, questioning getting out and even splitting in two, and bickering over banking unions and political control and sovereignty.
On the ground – the level at which citizens take time to raise a flag and celebrate, or at least ponder, their national founding – it’s also an exceedingly hard question to answer.
Dr. Lagrou used himself as an example. He’s a Dutch-speaking Belgian, living in bilingual Brussels, with a French employer. His regional government and federal government are accountable to him. But so are his EU representatives.
Each year, around Europe Day, the EU opens its doors to the public, so citizens get an inside look at the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the Commission, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, and the Office of the Ombudsman. These kinds of events, of any governmental institution, are often disregarded as hokey. But it might be as important a time as ever to sign up for the tour. I know I wish I had.
Read more: It's Europe Day, but Europeans don't seem to know - CSMonitor.com
n theory, Europe Day should be comparable to Bastille Day in France or the Fourth of July in the US. Instead, it’s hard to find people who actually know what it is.
One history professor did, but this was his take: “It’s nothing.” Pieter Lagrou, a contemporary European history professor at the Free University of Brussels, says he likes to tell his students the obscurity of the holiday marks "the symbolic deficit of Europe.”
The central question of "What is Europe?" is being picked apart across and beyond the continent. In the midst of debt crisis, nations are fighting to get in, questioning getting out and even splitting in two, and bickering over banking unions and political control and sovereignty.
On the ground – the level at which citizens take time to raise a flag and celebrate, or at least ponder, their national founding – it’s also an exceedingly hard question to answer.
Dr. Lagrou used himself as an example. He’s a Dutch-speaking Belgian, living in bilingual Brussels, with a French employer. His regional government and federal government are accountable to him. But so are his EU representatives.
Each year, around Europe Day, the EU opens its doors to the public, so citizens get an inside look at the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the Commission, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, and the Office of the Ombudsman. These kinds of events, of any governmental institution, are often disregarded as hokey. But it might be as important a time as ever to sign up for the tour. I know I wish I had.
Read more: It's Europe Day, but Europeans don't seem to know - CSMonitor.com
4/30/13
Festival of Europe - European Parliament open day
In fact, 2013 has been officially named the “European Year of Citizens”. Citizens are not always aware that European citizenship gives them rights. These include the right to move and live freely in another EU member state, the right to vote and stand as a candidate in European elections, and the right to petition the European Parliament.
In Brussels: the celebrations will feature, from 10.00 to 18.00, concerts, brass bands, artistic events, fun activities, tours of the official buildings, quizzes, debates with Members of the European Parliament (also to be web-streamed) and meetings with its political groups and services.
For younger visitors, the children’s village on the European Parliament esplanade will host a series of activities, craft projects and interactive games, so that children can have fun learning about Europe.
In Strasbourg: on 19 May you are invited to attend an official opening ceremony at 09.30. Come and debate your issues with your Members of the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman in the plenary chamber and meet the political groups and directorates-general of the European Parliament and other EU institutions. There will be festive activities and shows throughout the day.
The European Year of Citizens therefore aims to inform everyone, and in particular young people, of the existence of these rights.
Read more: Festival of Europe - European Parliament open day
5/9/11
Happy Europe Day!
Today, May 9th, the European Union celebrates Europe Day to commemorate the day in 1950 when French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed consolidating the coal and steel industries of Europe, binding nations so closely together that renewed war would be unthinkable. The "Schuman Declaration" is considered to be the beginning of what is now the European Union of 27 Member States.For more : Happy Europe Day!
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