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EU Citizens Politics Festival
2021-04-12 12:00 - 2021-04-18 20:30 (Europe/London)
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!

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.

Why we should absolutely continue shouting about Erasmus+!
2021-04-08 19:30
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.

Wales' Post-Brexit Future
2021-04-05 18:00 - 19:00
Webinar with Tonia Antonazzi MP and Mick Antoniw MS on the future of Wales post-Brexit.

Telling the Truth in the Age of Lies
2021-03-31 19:30 - 21:00
Webinar with Peter Jukes, Byline Times, and Mike Galsworthy, Scientists for Europe, and Q&A.

Glasgow loves EU lockdown livestream
2021-03-29 19:30, 2021-03-15 19:30

What should Labour do about Europe? EM conference fringe event
2021-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
Speakers:
Andrew Adonis (Peer, and former government minister and adviser)
Laura Parker (former Momentum National Coordinator)
Jackie Jones (former MEP, Welsh AM candidate)
Paula Surridge (senior lecturer at the University of Bristol’s School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies)

At this, a fringe event for the European Movement conference, Labour for a European Future is bringing together voices from across the Labour movement to discuss what Labour should do about Europe.
This is the moment when things are, arguably, as challenging for Labour’s pro-Europeans as they have ever been. Yet there is great scope for progress: a majority of both Labour members and the public more broadly still support EU membership.
How do we go about making the Labour Party more pro-European, and the country more broadly? What should the Labour Party’s position on Europe be? How do we go about learning the lessons the past has taught us on these questions and others?

European Movement conference: Building Bridges not Barriers!
2021-03-27 10:00 - 16:30 | Online
Speakers will include Ian Murray MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, David McAllister ME, Chair of the European Parliament UK Coordination Group, Noelle O’Connell, CEO of European Movement Ireland, Kishan Devani BEM, Honorary VP of Green Lib Dems, Howard Goodall, EMMY, BRIT, and BAFTA award winning composer, Anna Bird, CEO of the European Movement, Jon Worth, Political blogger, teacher at the College of Europe, Deborah Mattinson, Founding Partner of Britain Thinks. Panel discussions on campaigning tips, the brexit deal three months on, reaching outside our bubble, and brexit and the creative industries.

Brexit: Ending the City’s Dominance of European Finance?
2021-03-25 19:00 | Online
Graham Bishop discusses the future of the financial services industry – centred in the City of London – that matters enormously to the health of the United Kingdom’s economy.
The Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) has few provisions on financial services and the UK now appears set to drive a wedge between EU and British rules so it can “benefit” from its new-found Brexit freedom.
In reality, this “wedge” is unlikely to benefit the economic prospects of the City or the United Kingdom.

An evening with Prof. John Curtice: Implications of the 2019 election for the electoral reform debate
2021-03-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Online
Make Votes Matter are delighted to be joined by one of the UK’s leading experts in polling and elections: Professor John Curtice. Professor Curtice is a regular on BBC election night results programmes, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, President of the British Polling Council, Senior Research Fellow at ScotCen Social Research, and a Fellow of the British Academy. If you’re interested but can’t make it, register anyway and we’ll send you a recording of the event afterwards!

Isolation Insight Devolution: change, continuity and crisis
2021-03-25 12:00 - 13:30
Brexit’s impact on UK devolution has been a major issue since the EU referendum.
How has the UK’s departure from the EU impacted the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales? Is devolution in crisis after Brexit and Covid-19? And what do the public think about devolution?
Discussion with:

Professor Sir John Curtice, Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde
Professor Ailsa Henderson, Principal Investigator for the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study
Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Director of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre and Principal Investigator for the ESRC-funded Welsh Election Study
Philip Rycroft, former Head of UK Governance Group, Cabinet Office
Chair: Dan Wincott, Director, Governance after Brexit

Where do we go from here?
2021-03-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Online
Covid-19 has upended everyone’s plans over the past 12 months and has partially knocked Brexit off the agenda. But Brexit hasn’t gone away and its impacts are creeping up on the public consciousness as it becomes clear that they are serious and likely to be long term.
So, how do we as a movement prepare ourselves to re-enter the fray once, as we hope, the virus recedes? Do we talk about the negatives of Brexit or do we need to offer a more positive narrative?
Our guest speakers for this event are very well placed to answer these questions and more. Naomi Smith, as Chief Executive of Best for Britain, regularly takes soundings from the public in the form of polling and focus groups, so can offer excellent insight into the messages which resonate with the public and those which fall flat. Effective campaigner, Femi Oluwole, has years of experience of taking messages onto the streets and our TV screens and is hard to beat when it comes to debating our opponents and communicating with the general public.

Time for Liberal Values?
2021-03-24 18:00
Brexit is far from ‘done’. The government is taking an increasingly confrontational approach with our European allies. At the same time, the same government is threatening not only ministerial accountability and the rights of Parliament, but also the judiciary, the media and even the freedom of peaceful assembly. To achieve this it is shamelessly exploiting the bandwidth taken up by coronavirus and the Royal Family to distract from its plans. For years we have taken for granted that liberal values are safe in this country. Are we wrong to do so? What can we as citizens do to safeguard them? How should pro-Europeans and Liberals respond?

Speakers: Layla Moran MP, Ian Dunt.

Should we campaign to rejoin the Customs Union?
2021-03-22 18:00 | Online
This is a Labour for a European Future webinar for members only. You can join LEF here: https://donorbox.org/lef-membership
Members will be sent a link shortly before the beginning of the webinar.
Speakers to include:
David Henig (UK Director of European Centre For International Political Economy and Co-founder of UK Trade Forum)
Mike Buckley (LEF Director)
Dan McCurry (activist)
More speakers tbc.

UN Anti-Racism Day
2021-03-20 | Online

Staying close to the heart of Europe
2021-03-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Online
Molly Scott Cato, former South West, MEP Green Party and European Movement Ambassador will talk equalities, Europe, the economy and sustainable development.

Settled Status Scheme Latest
2021-03-18 19:00 - 20:30
In order to remain in the UK, EU and EFTA citizens have to apply for settled or pre-settled status by 30th June. How many have applied? How many are still to apply? What can you do to help? With Cristina Tegolo from Settled and a speaker from the3million (TBC). Campaigns to get involved with will also be discussed.

Women's History Month: The Women’s Agenda and the EU
2021-03-17 19:30
All are welcome. You do not need to be a Labour Party or Labour Movement for Europe member in order to attend.
Chair: Jackie Jones, former Labour MEP, Prof. of Feminist Legal Studies at the University of West of England.
Speakers:
Tulip Siddiq MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Children and Early Years
Joanna Maycock, General Secretary of The European Women’s Lobby
Dr Grainne Healy, co-director of Yes Equality
Zita Gurmai, President of Party of European Socialists (PES) Women, VP of Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), MEP for Hungarian Socialist Party

#BrexitReality - What Brexit Means for Young People in the North
2021-03-16 18:00 | Online
Discussion about what Brexit means for young people in the north and what we can do to fight it! We will be joined by an incredible panel of speakers: Amelia Womack – Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales and Co-founder of Another Europe is Possible,
Terry Reintke MEP – German Green MEP and founder of the EU-UK Friendship Group,
Molly Scott Cato – Green Party of England & Wales Brexit Spokesperson and former MEP,
Richard Wilson – Chair of Leeds for Europe and Vice-Chair of European Movement UK.

Brexit and the environment - climate change
2021-03-13 10:30
Get into the weeds of the environmental impacts of Brexit with this fascinating in-depth talk. Warwick District for Europe are hosting two experts in Emilien Gasc, the EU Delegation to the UK’s Climate & Environment Officer, and Natalie Bennett, Green Party peer, to hear about the climate impacts of the UK-EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement and the EU Green Deal.

UK in a Changing Europe: Spotlight on Economics
2021-03-12 12:00 - 13:15, 2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:15, 2021-03-10 12:00 - 13:15, 2021-03-09 12:00 - 13:15 | Online
Join us for this week-long series of lunch-time events looking at Brexit, Covid-19, business, and economic inequality. Each event will be a panel discussion featuring leading speakers.

Future trade opportunities
2021-03-10 19:00 - 20:30

Sir David Lidington discusses what needs to be done to map a path towards a closer relationship with Europe.
2021-03-09 18:00 | Online

Defence and security in Europe – Biden and Brexit as new parameters
2021-03-09 17:30 | Online
Will the new US administration under Joe Biden change the path set out by Trump, and what will be the longer term implications of Brexit for British and EU foreign, defence and security policy? See Zoom link for further details and to register.

UK Market Regulation After Brexit: higher, lower or stay the same?
2021-03-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
How best can the UK economy compete in the world of the future? A panel discussion on the prospects for the future, the opportunities and the threats.

Webinar - Is Brexit killing the music industry?
2021-03-08 19:00 | Online
Rupa Huq MP (Vice Chair of the APPG on Music, researcher specialising in youth culture and pop music, and DJ)
Kerry McCarthy MP (Vice Chair of the APPG on Music)

Brexit is posing huge issues to the music industry. Suddenly, moving people or goods as a UK-based artist around the EU is a huge administrative tangle, and one of the UK’s finest industries is in serious danger of losing a huge market.

Join us to discuss this. This webinar is free to attend – please register via the Zoom link.
