Name: Not Without Us! - Berlin Conference
Start: 2019-3-21T14-14-00-00
End: 2019-3-22T16-16-00-00
Location: Rotes Rathaus

march, 2019

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21mar(mar 21)14 h 00 min22(mar 22)16 h 00 minFeaturedNot Without Us! - Berlin ConferenceCivil Society and the Future of Europe

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Europe has proven itself successfully as a peace and prosperity project in the context of integration into the European Union, but key initiatives remain undeveloped. In contrast, over the past years we are witnessing the questioning of the European project as a whole. To gain back trust in Europe, a further democratisation and structural reform of the European Union is necessary. A Europe of citizens with participative opportunities for civil society is still in the sack lane. However, this existential crisis in Europe has lead to a strong civil society support reflex for the European project. Numerous initiatives are looking for and give the EU new impulses.

In view of the European Elections 2019, the European Civic Forum (ECF) has launched the Europe-wide Campaign #MEGA. The National Network for Civil Society (Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement – BBE) has joined this campaign as national partner in Germany. #MEGA will provide an open and democratic space to think collectively upon these challenges and reclaim a democratic, just and inclusive way out of this deadlock.

In March 2019, prior to the European Elections, the Berlin Conference shall bring together outstanding voices of civil society on the future development of Europe, such as the basic understanding of European values and democratic procedures, the future of civil dialogue in Europe, the role of social citizenship-rights in the context of growing social inequality and the questioned importance of human rights. The aim is to present an all-European anthology of civil society visions and concrete approaches for the future of the European project.

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