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Building a new consensus for Europe Even with a referendum on the EU constitution deferred, Europe remains centre stage in British politics. On no other issue do the public have to contend with such a weight of misinformation and propaganda from the media and elsewhere. Almost twenty years of anti-European conditioning have secured a fundamental - but ill-conceived and unsoundly-based - change of attitudes. As the European Movement's section for inner London, Central London Europe Group's task is, within this area and where necessary throughout London, to help unravel that. We are under no illusions as to the size of the complexity of the task! We hope you will want to join CLEG and contribute to the historic challenge that confronts us. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CLEG AGM
Our AGM takes place on Monday 12th May - at King;s College London Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, SE1 with speaker Peter Luff, chairman of European Movement-UK. For details please see Events.
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From Europe With Love
Celebrate Europe Day 2008 with a night of classic and contemporary European cinema. After an overdose of treaties and legislation, it's time to put it all aside, relax and enjoy our shared culture with the continent.
CLEG will be supporting From Europe With Love - the EM's all-night European film festival for Europe Day. Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place, WC2.
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Lisbon treaty
CLEG's programme for 2008 began with an evening conference on the reform treaty - Tuesday 11th March at St Bride's, EC4. Speakers included EM-UK president, Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP. For full details - and recordings of two of the speeches - see Events.
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Speak Up Europe
Last year, CLEG took an active part in the Speak Up Europe campaign, supported by the information network Europe Direct and intended for the public.
Successful events, all at St Bride's EC4, took place on:
Please see Events for further details on all these successful past events.
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EM - the national perspective
CLEG try to contribute strongly to the European Movement nationally - and has continued to do for the past year with:
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Moving with the times... with facebook
CLEG has recognised the new ways of networking - by developing our own page on facebook. It is an early stage as yet... but in any case, if you're a facebook member, please join the CLEG group and help us make best use of it. Our facebook page can spread the word in ways this site (we must admit) cannot match! CLEG events will each be promoted via a separate page. Our facebook group has 54 members at the last count.
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Calling postgraduates
Postgraduate members and friends may like to know of a call for papers on:
The European Union after the Reform Treaty: a new era?
issued by the Centre for European Politics at Royal Holloway College in connection with an all-day workshop on Tuesday 17th June with guest speaker Roger Liddle.
For full details please see RHC workshop or contact Isabelle Hertner at RHC.
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CLEG Annual General Meeting
At CLEG's AGM on 16th April 2007 Maurice Fraser, LSE Fellow in European Politics, spoke on "Britain's European policy in the age of Brown and Cameron".
Soon Yeng Chiam retired on completing three years as one of our vice-chairmen - but remains a member of the committee. She is succeeded by Eva Eberhardt.
Other new committee members this year are Petros Fassoulas and Patrick Montgomery.
Again all these are introduced - or soon will be - on profiles.
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Schools initiative
We have developed, for the first time, a proactive programme of speakers for local schools. Please see our community page for more details.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our president, Claude Moraes MEP - who is most enthusiastic to play a full part in our work - contributes a quarterly President's Letter, written especially for CLEG members and friends. The latest issue focuses on enlargement Claude spoke at our annual dinner in December - on "The EU's role and record on human rights". _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Publications Writing for the Federal Trust, Richard Laming discusses Four routes to the new Europe - possible solutions to the
problem of the constitutional treaty.
New European Movement
publications accessible through this page include:
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