Cross-border data protection, law enforcement and intelligence sharing
2021-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Online
This event, led by Edoardo Celeste and hosted by the Dublin City University Law Research Centre, the Brexit Institute and the DCU Law & Technology Research Cluster will focus on data protection, law enforcement and intelligence sharing. Personal data processing practices by national law enforcement and intelligence authorities have been subject to intense criticism over the past few decades. Seminal data protection cases decided by the Court of Justice of the EU and by the European Court of Human Rights involved British and Irish national authorities and oversight mechanisms. The question of the protection of personal data by law enforcement and intelligence authorities in the UK and RoI is still not solved as shown by a series of pending cases before the Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

Europe in the Park
2021-09-18 14:00 - 16:30
We will have music, a picnic and of course stick to currently covid safety rules.
It’s an important chance for us to celebrate our Europeanness, and talk about what we love about our continent.
Bring your Europe flags, berets, anything you’ve got, or just yourselves!

Livestream with Prof AC Grayling
2021-09-20 19:30
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.

The UK & the EU: How We Will Rejoin, with Professor AC Grayling
2021-09-21 19:00 - 20:00
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.

Embrace Europe March
2021-09-25 10:00 | Houses of Parliament, Bridge Street, London, SW1A 2PW, Bridge Street,, London, SW1A 2PW, United Kingdom
Rally to show pro-Europe support.

Brexit isn’t working: What can Labour do?
2021-09-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Odeon Cinema Brighton: Screen Room 6 West Street Brighton BN1 2RE, United Kingdom
A free rally on how Brexit’s going & what pro-EU Labour supporters do next, featuring Labour politicians, trade unionists & journalists featuring:

Hilary Benn MP – former Environment Secretary
Polly Toynbee – Guardian columnist
Frances O’Grady – General Secretary of the TUC
Anas Sarwar MSP – Leader of Scottish Labour
Carwyn Jones – Former Wales First Minister & Welsh Labour Leader
Lord Andrew Adonis – Chair of the European Movement

Bring back Erasmus+
2021-09-27 11:45 - 14:00 | the i360 Brighton West Pier Kings Road Brighton BN1 2FL United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Johnson promised Erasmus + was safe in his hands – he lied. Come and find out what you can do about it.
Speakers include:

Lloyd Russell-Moyle – MP for Brighton Kemptown
Naomi Smith – CEO Best for Britain
Prof Juliet Lodge – Women 4 Europe

Meet at the spiral pillars by the i360, opposite the West Pier.
Brighton and Hove for EU belongs to the ErasmusPlusAlliance alongside groups such as the Young European Movement, Centre for International Learning, Best for Britain, Grassroots for Europe, and the European Movement.
Together we want to get back, for people of all ages and abilities, the same education and training opportunities we enjoyed in the EU, before the Tory Government snatched them away and refused to allow us to stay in schemes the EU left open for us.
We want to counter the myth that the government is levelling up with the replacement Turing scheme – nothing is further from the truth. This ideological government chose to deprive us of funding free education and opportunities that our EU friends take for granted.
So this is our fight for a better future for all. Join us and make your voices heard.

Exploring "My Secret Brexit Diary" by Michel Barnier
2021-09-27 17:30 - 18:45 | Online
This event will explore Michel Barnier’s new book, My Secret Brexit Diary: a glorious illusion.
In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what Brexit would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever. During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a secret diary. He recorded his private hopes and fears, and gave a blow-by-blow account as the negotiations oscillated between consensus and disagreement, transparency and lies.
Please register via link below.

What should Labour's Europe policy be at the next election?
2021-09-27 17:30 - 19:00 | Saint Paul’s Parish Church West Street Brighton BN1 2RE, United Kingdom
Chair: Mike Buckley, Labour for a European Future
Speakers:
Hilary Benn MP, former Shadow Foreign Secretary
Paul Blomfield MP, former Shadow Brexit Minister
Cllr Christabel Cooper, Hammersmith and Fulham
Clare Moody, former MEP for the South West and Gibraltar in a discussion on Labour’s Europe policy.

Progressive Alliance: Will Labour Accept Sharing Power to Win?
2021-09-28 18:00 - 19:30
Join Compass in-person in Brighton or remotely via livestream during this year’s Labour Party Conference for a special event.
We’ll be joined by Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, Paul Mason, journalist, author and film-maker, and Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain, to look at the necessity and strategy of a Progressive Alliance following the events of Labour Conference.
Will the party embrace an agenda of democratic change, or is it condemned to lose again?
More speakers TBC.

German Elections: Implications for Europe | Webinar
2021-09-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
We will be examining the outcome and the implications for Europe three days after the German election with a stellar German cast:
Joining us are:
Andreas Botsch, head of the international department, the DGB (German TIUC), for the SPD
Dr Rainer Ohler, partner consultant nat Senior Strategists, ex-head of corporate communications, EADS/Airbus and home policy adviser to Helmut Kohl, for the CDU
Dr Nils Redeker, Policy Fellow for European Economic Policy at the Jacques Delors Centre
Nina Locher from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Personal adviser to the Chair of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and writer on EU-UK relations, including Brexit.
The webinar will be chaired by David Gow, ex-German Correspondent, The Guardian, and EMiS executive committee member.

My Secret Diary by Michel Barnier
2021-09-30 01:00
In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever.
During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a secret diary. He recorded his private hopes and fears, and gave a blow-by-blow account as the negotiations oscillated between consensus and disagreement, transparency and lies. From Brussels to London, from Dublin to Nicosia, Michel Barnier’s secret diary lifts the lid on what really happened behind the scenes of one of the most high-stakes negotiations in modern history.
The result is a unique testimony from the ultimate insider on the hidden world of Brexit and those who made it happen.

Brexit isn't working. Protest at the Conservative Party Conference
2021-10-02 14:00 | St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2, United Kingdom
The Tories’ ruinous brexit deal is trashing the country. Peace in Northern Ireland threatened, shortages in the shops, crops rotting in the fields, small businesses crushed by brexit red tape, whole industries threatened, some trashed. It’s time to fight back.
Key demands:
A better deal with the EU: Return to the Single Market and Customs Union. Free movement of workers reinstated.
A better deal for EU citizens in the UK: End the hostile environment. Physical proof of residency for EU citizens living in the UK. Fix problems with the settled status system.
Scrap the Police Bill: The draconian PCSC bill must be scrapped. It threatens rights to protest, GRT rights and increases stop and search powers. It’s an affront do democracy and human rights and must go.

Things Can Only Get Worse: waking up from the Brexit fever dream, with Jonty Bloom
2021-10-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Jonty Bloom is a former BBC business and economic correspondent, now freelance journalist and blogger. You would have heard him regularly on BBC Radio including the PM programme until last year when he went freelance. He worked in the City before becoming a journalist.

1,000 BrexitReality Tweets
2021-10-04 19:30 | Facebook and Twitter, United Kingdom
We have a treat in store! Our Monday livestream this week will feature Twitter sensation Professor R Daniel Keleman of Rutgers University. Prof Kelemen is drawing a line under his Brexit Reality thread which has been reporting the ever worsening realities of Tory Brexit since January 2021. Sad to say, the horrors of Brexit Reality are set to continue for some time. And maybe someone else will take on the task now.
In the meantime you can catch up on his tweets via the thread roll here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348964732104007680.html
As he posts his 1,000th and last Brexit Reality tweet, we will be talking to Prof Kelemen on our weekly Monday livestream at 7.30pm on Facebook and Twitter.
Please join us.

Brexit: Exploring the hidden costs
2021-10-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
It is only now, as we edge further away from the height of the Covid pandemic, that the real effects of Brexit are starting to become more visible. Not only are there continued issues surrounding the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is yet to be resolved, there are now worrying examples of how the UK’s supply chain is being impacted by the fact we left the European Union. To discuss this, The Independent is hosting a virtual event, chaired by their chief political commentator John Rentoul, during which an expert panel will explore the pros and cons that the reality of Brexit presents and what the future holds for a UK divorced from the EU.
For further information and to register, click on the Eventbrite link.

Young European Movement social
2021-10-06 19:00 | Knights Templar, United Kingdom
Join us for a drink and a nice chat.

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: A forgotten Father of Europe?
2021-10-07 17:00
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.

Why is journalism failing democracy?
2021-10-07 18:30 | Online
New analysis from Open Democracy shows how the Conservative party has become dependent on bankers and hedge fund tycoons, who are now responsible for almost 40% of all donations. The findings have sparked warnings from opposition MPs and transparency campaigners that Boris Johnson is reliant on “vested interests” who want to “drive the UK towards a Singapore-on-Thames-style model of light-touch regulation and low business taxes”. (Read more here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tories-rake-in-11m-from-hedge-funds-and-finance-tycoons/)
The people who produce and consume the news are increasingly elites living in big cities. Why is this happening, what does it mean for democracy and what can we do about it? Join us for this free live discussion on 7 October at 6.30pm UK time – register via the Zoom link below.

What next for Labour & PR?
2021-10-07 19:00 - 20:15 | Online
A review of conference from PR campaign organisers, hear from some of the delegates and activists who were in the thick of it, and consider what the outcome means for Labour’s journey towards introducing PR for UK general elections.

GlasgowLovesEU: Q&A with Dr Helga Nowotny
2021-10-11 19:30 | Online
Join us live on Facebook or Twitter for a Q&A with Dr Helga Nowotny, Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies at ETH Zurich and former president of the European Research Council.
Dr Nowotny will talk about dealing with uncertainty, Brexit’s impact on the EU and fixing the post-referendum social divide.

On Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/GlasgowLovesEU/
On Twitter: @glasgowlovesEU

Modernising Britain's Democracy
2021-10-12 19:00 | Online
Leeds for Europe and Labour for a European Future – Modernising Britain’s Democracy – with Mike Buckley, Alex Sobel MP and Juliet Lodge. It will cover voting reform, media, devolution, House of Lords reform and much more.

Changing to Proportional Representation: New Zealand's experience
2021-10-13 09:00 | Online
Pro Europa Brussels invites you to a discussion with Prof Andrew Geddis of Otago University.
There are many parallels between New Zealand’s experience prior to the introduction of PR and the situation in the UK today, where the Conservatives and some in the Labour Party are clinging to their vested interest in the present first-past-the-post system. That was also true in NZ, yet the people of that country were able to change to a fairer and more democratic system. How they managed to achieve that and how it has turned out are questions that Professor Geddis will tackle in his talk.
To access the event on 13 October please click on the Zoom link below at 09.00 BST (10.00 CEST, 21.00 NZST).

Lewisham Across Europe: No.2 – Lyon
2021-10-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Listen in and/or participate in the discussion in the second of our events to celebrate our European identity. Beginning with an overview of its ties with Lewisham, this one-hour presentation and chat centres on France’s second-largest urban area, a city which even Parisians acknowledge as the culinary centre of the country (Curnonsky went further, saying it was the “gastronomic capital of the world”). With Beaujolais and Burgundy just to the north, the Rhone wines and Provence to the south, the Alps to the east, and two rivers running through it, from Roman times (as the capital of the Gauls) Lyon has been …….
These events are informal. No prior registration is required, just join in – and please pass on the details/invite to friends and family, the more the merrier, they don’t even have to be outright Rejoiners.

Festival of Europe UK 2022 Official Launch
2021-10-18 19:00 - 21:00
We are delighted to announce the official launch of the Festival of Europe 2022 at the National Liberal Club in Central London. The Festival will be a UK-wide summer of music, film, theatre, visual arts and food, celebrating our continent’s shared culture and values (see the Festival website below for more).
If you cannot attend the launch in person, it will be live-streamed by private invitation. For further information and to request an invitation, please email tamsin@festivalofeurope.uk

Q&A with Gavin Esler - livestream on Twitter & Facebook
2021-10-18 19:30 | Online
Join Glasgow Loves EU for a live-stream Q&A with journalist and author Gavin Esler:
On Twitter: @glasgowloveseu
On Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/GlasgowLovesEU/

Proportional Representation
2021-10-19 19:00 | Online
In this webinar we’ll be joined by Laura Parker from Labour for a New Democracy and Owen Winter from Make Votes Matter to talk about the case for PR, why it’s the right choice for Labour and where we go from here.

Building cultural bridges after Brexit
2021-10-20 14:00 - 15:00
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 Music ) and Mark Pemberton (Director of the Association of British Orchestras). Our moderator will be Dr Nigel Clarke, a freelance composer and musician.

Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard
2021-10-21 18:00 | Online
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe. The Count’s commitment to this cooperative ideal infuriated Adolf Hitler, who referred to him as a “cosmopolitan bastard” in Mein Kampf. Martyn Bond’s biography offers an opportunity to explore a remarkable life and revisit the impetus and origins of a unified Europe. This event will explore Martyn’s recent publication, ‘Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard’.

How fares meritocracy in Britain and Europe? Competence or Cronyism?
2021-10-21 19:15 - 21:00 | Online
Adrian Wooldridge, Political Editor and “Bagehot” columnist of The Economist.
What binds us and divides us? Are there links to Brexit and our PM?
Brexit Britain is looking increasingly like 1970s Britain: bigger state, higher inflation, less choice, more bureaucracy, shortages of staff and supplies, ignoring the needs of the less-privileged, rampant cronyism.
His latest book “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World” traces the history of meritocracy. He describes the repeated efforts to compel society to organise itself on lines where not bloodlines or bank balances but merit alone decides who rules.
His book raises debates regarding the future of the Labour Party (“it offers Labour’s only path to victory” according to Wooldridge) and the Government’s “levelling up” agenda.
Where does meritocracy stand in the domestic party political arena? What can we learn from divergent attitudes in Europe and across the world, and where does Brexit fit into the context? This promises to be a fascinating talk.
