Why we should absolutely continue shouting about Erasmus+!
2021-04-08 19:30 (Europe/London)
With the decision of the UK government to withdraw from the Erasmus+ Programme and to replace it with the Turing Scheme, a panel of experts within the field of international education will consider the real impact of this loss and discuss how we can make a difference to the inevitable negative outcome. For more details and to register, click on Zoom link.

Kitchen Table Conversations for EU Citizens
2021-04-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Online
An invitation to London EU citizens: How are you affected as a Londoner? What would you want the Mayor to do for EU citizens? Guilene Marco, current London Assembly candidate and Olivia Vincenti, former EU Parliamentary candidate, both EU citizens, are on hand to discuss making our voices heard in the London Assembly Elections and how to shape a London that works for us.

EU Citizens Politics Festival
2021-04-12 12:00 - 2021-04-18 20:30
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!

Common Sense - Why We Must Rejoin Europe - with Will Hutton
2021-04-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Online
Will Hutton will be joining us virtually to talk about how Brexit is going and tell us why – and how – we must rejoin the EU.

Security and the EU-UK Relationship
2021-04-14 19:00 - 20:15 | Online
Security is an issue that is hugely important. It was also the reason the body which would become the EU was originally created, and it was a key part of the UK’s EU membership. Now, with the UK outside the EU, there is a need to keep working together on security going forward.
Speakers:
Catherine West MP, Fabian Hamilton MP, Clare Moody (Labour ex-MEP) & Christos Katsioulis (FES London)

Brexit - The First 100 Days
2021-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
100 days after the end of the Brexit transition period, our panel of speakers will be reflecting on the many areas that Brexit is impacting, such as our business community, loss of opportunity for musicians and the arts, health, the Financial Services sector, food and farming, fishing, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Good Friday Agreement. There will be time for questions and discussion. Click on the Eventbrite link for more details and to register for the event.

Trade Policy after Brexit
2021-04-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Online
David Henig discusses what is happening to UK Trade outside the Single Market, with significant border barriers to 50% of UK trade which was with the EU?
Will exporters recover from the 40.7% drop in exports to the EU in January?
Join this talk by a leading expert on the development of UK trade policy post Brexit.

Launch of a report "Comfortable Leavers"
2021-04-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
A new report by UK in a Changing Europe and NatCen sheds a light on ‘Comfortable Leavers’ – Leave voters with comparatively high incomes, based in relatively affluent places – and what they hope and expect from British politics and the economy after leaving the European Union. We bring together the authors of the report, those involved in conducting the eight deliberative workshops and political commentators to discuss the findings and their implications.
Panel:

Dan Wincott, Director, Governance after Brexit
Ceri Davies, Director, NatCen Centre for Deliberative Research
Matt Holehouse, British political correspondent, The Economist
Chaired by Paula Surridge, Deputy Director, UK in a Changing Europe

An Evening in Conversation with Gordon Brown
2021-04-19 18:00 | Online
An opportunity to gain perspective on the unprecedented challenges that lie ahead, through the eyes of the prime minister who led the UK through both the Great Recession and a flu pandemic.
Mark Malloch-Brown and Naomi Smith will be talking to Gordon about unprecedented challenges that lie ahead. In the midst of the coronavirus crisis and our trade agreement with Europe still incomplete, there are many questions to be asked about what ‘Global Britain’ will look like.
We’ll also be asking what the Erasmus+ replacement means for the next generation of Britons? What the current Chancellor should be doing for a whole generation of young people facing joblessness? And what must happen to do to restore the UK’s commitment to aid and international development.”

Webinar: Scotland, the UK and the EU
2021-04-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Speakers:
Ian Murray MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland)
More speakers tbc.
In this webinar we will discuss the two big issues on Scotland’s constitutional horizon: its relationship with the EU and independence.
Since Brexit it has repeatedly been mooted that independence is a way for Scotland to rejoin the EU. But, even if this is possible, is it the right way to go? Can Scotland maintain its membership of the UK whilst having a good relationship with the EU?

Webinar with Sajjad Karim, former Conservative MEP and member of the European Movement National Council
2021-04-20 18:00
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.

What do people think about Brexit? Interview with Peter Kellner
2021-04-20 19:00 | Online
Peter Kellner, pollster, analyst and an active member of European Movement, will talk about his polling experience and where he sees the public sentiment regarding Brexit just now, how pro-Europeans should address this sentiment to succeed and deliver our aims.
On the night, join the meeting by putting these log-in details into the Zoom app:
Meeting ID: 837 4001 8293
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Or click the Zoom link below to join the meeting from your browser.

Leaving Erasmus - Lost Opportunity or Fresh Start?
2021-04-21 19:00 | Online
Despite the assurances, we are leaving the Erasmus scheme and in its place a student exchange programme called the Turing Scheme has been established by the UK Department for Education . Our expert panel will debate whether this is a lost opportunity or a fresh start for young people in the UK, with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

The fundamental problems in the UK-EU trade deal and how it can be reformed,
2021-04-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
Our new report, The fundamental problems in the UK-EU trade deal and how it can be reformed, identifies a series of critical failings in Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and offers a clear an concise roadmap for a better relationship with Europe. The report has been backed by figures from across the progressive political spectrum.

"What is best for Britain?" Relaunch Event
2021-04-26 10:00 - 11:00
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 need to be a country that seeks to improve all elements of democracy and pursues meaningful action on climate change. We cannot slip into isolationism and xenophobia.

Europub
2021-04-26 19:00
Discussion among participants on European matters.

Meeting with GLA candidate Richard Hewison of the Rejoin Party
2021-04-27 19:30
Discussion with Richard Hewison, candidate from the Rejoin Party in the GLA elections

The Future of UK-EU Relations
2021-04-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Online
With relations between the UK and the EU seemingly at an all time low, how are we going to repair relationships and re-establish the connections we will need if the UK is going to embark on its journey back to the heart of Europe? At this webinar we hear from two figures who will both have important roles to play in bridging the divide.
Susanne Oberhauser is Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK. German-born Susanne has worked for the European Parliament since 1991 and was appointed to head up the UK office, in Smith Square in London, in 2019 just as the UK was about to exit the EU.
Richard Corbett CBE is an ex-MEP, formerly head of the European Parliamentary Labour Party. Since the UK’s departure from the EU, Richard has maintained his links to the European Parliament, where he is currently Deputy Head of Cabinet for Constitutional and Institutional Affairs. He was also recently appointed to the Common Secretariat of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

UK Trade and Business Commission: Food and Drink trade since 1 January 2021
2021-04-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will look at UK food and drink trade, the changes that came into force on January 1, their impact, how this can be mitigated, and the way this may change for better or worse in the future. There will be a particular focus on Northern Ireland, which is being treated as part of the EU in terms of rules covering goods products.
Different products and sizes of exporter are affected in different ways, with potentially different solutions, and therefore we need to seek specific examples wherever possible. The impact of delaying checks on products coming into the UK should also be considered.
Aodhán Connolly, Director Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, will be Chairing the session.
Witnesses

Emily Rees, Senior Fellow at ECIPE and Managing Director at Trade Strategies

Karin Goodburn, Director General of the Chilled Food Association (CFA)

Nick Allen, Chief Executive Officer of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA)

William Bain, Policy Advisor at the British Retail Consortium

Livestream with guest: Focus on Northern Ireland
2021-05-03 19:30
Lockdown Livestream with Anthony Flynn, Green Party of Northern Ireland. Anthony is a member of Belfast City Council and sits on the Council’s Brexit committee. In this discussion Anthony will talk about Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the recent unrest in the province.
Event will go live on our Twitter @glasgowloveseu and on our Facebook page (see link below).

Book Launch: ‘Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe: What Next for the EU?’
2021-05-04 16:00 - 17:00
‘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.

Discover the Europe Day programme of the European Parliament
2021-05-05 11:00 - 2021-05-09 21:00
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.

Conference on the future of Europe: Make it Yours!
2021-05-05 16:30 - 17:00 | Online
Join our MEPs Katalin Cseh and Guy Verhofstadt for a discussion live from the European Parliament.
They will answer your questions about the Conference, on what to expect in the coming months and you will also be able to find out how to participate in our upcoming citizens panels.

Euro Pub
2021-05-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
A general discussion – join us for a chat.

WorldWide Wednesday: Ireland, Germany & Europe - Past, Present, Future
2021-05-05 19:30 | Online
Irish journalist Tony Connelly, and Northern Ireland Assembly member Stewart Dickson will update us on NI politics. And Martyn Bond, author and former BBC correspondent, will talk about his latest book, Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard, which tells the story of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his vision of Europe.

The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism
2021-05-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Ahead of the start of the Conference on the Future of Europe, this event will launch The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism, an LSE IDEAS report discussing new visions of Europe emerging in civil society and what they mean for democracy and the European Union.

Delivery Workers in the Platform Economy
2021-05-08 18:00
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. The EU Social Summit in Porto will be an important occasion for the European Union to commit to building a Europe in which no one falls between the gaps.
European Alternatives and Another Europe Is Possible gather together migrant workers, workers’ collectives, trade unions and NGOs fighting for the rights of migrant workers from inside and outside the EU.
Together we not only want to articulate problems and demands, but also formulate policy recommendations to strengthen the rights of migrant workers.
Join our online event series to draft our open letter to the EU Commission.

Europe Day Concert 2021
2021-05-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
We celebrate Portugal, currently holding the Presidency of the EU Council. We also pay homage to The Divine Comedy of Dante, whose 700th anniversary we mark this year. Top Portuguese lyric tenor Luis Gomes takes us from ‘Inferno’ – the word which begins an aria from Verdi’s opera Simon Boccanegra about the seafaring Genovese people – to ‘Purgatorio’ in the possibility of exile envisaged by Benjamin Godard’s Dante in an operatic rarity of 1890, and finally heavenwards with da Gama’s ‘O paradis’ in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine.
Orchestrally, we celebrate a hunt through fantastical woods in the ‘All’Ouvertura’ from Sibelius’s second set of Scènes Historiques, then ocean journeys in Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the poignant quotation of it in Elgar’s thirteenth ‘Enigma Variation’, plus a rarity – the UK premiere of 99-year-old Estonian composer Ester Mägi’s The Sea. A train ride is succinctly and humorously etched in a Johann Strauss polka, and locomotive loving Dvořák evokes the other side of the pond in the finale of his Ninth Symphony, ‘From the New World’. The outstanding performances of Jonathan Bloxham and his Northern Chords Festival Orchestra of young and established professionals in the past three Europe Day Concerts guarantee a concert of the highest order.

Celebration of Europe Day 2021
2021-05-09 12:00 - 20:00
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 a dedicated website soon for you to join us in celebrating Europe Day through featured live-streamed discussions and content from European changemakers, presentations of artists, thinkers and doers, amongst our grantees and friends.

Europe Day Picnic, Farnham Park
2021-05-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Farnham Park, Southern Slope, Folly Hill Car Park ,Folly Hill (A 287), Farnham, GU9 0AU, United Kingdom
Members and supporters of our branch are invited to a socially-distanced informal low-key BYO (bring your own) picnic on the “Southern Slope” in Farnham Park from 2pm onwards. There is plenty of space on the Southern Slope – so we should be able to keep strictly socially distanced at all times, and yet still get to meet and chat (at a distance). For more details (including location map), and to REGISTER, click on the link below.
