What do people think about Brexit? Interview with Peter Kellner
2021-04-20 19:00 (Europe/London) | 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
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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.

Europe Day picnic
2021-05-09 14:30 - 16:00
Picnic to celebrate Europe Day; bring berets and flags and a picnic. Followed by walk to a bluebell wood.

A Green Brexit? Environmental Issues and Britain's Departure from the EU
2021-05-09 15:30 - 16:30 | Online
Talk by Professor Catherine Rowett, former Green Party MEP

The 2021 elections: what happened and what happens next?
2021-05-10 13:00 - 14:00
Crucial elections take place across the UK on 6 May. The result in Scotland could have huge consequences for the UK’s future. The election in Wales is the most unpredictable since devolution. And across England, voters will elect the mayors of London and other English cities, 39 police and crime commissioners and several thousand councillors. The impact on the national political debate could be significant.
To make sense of the results and analyse what they mean, the Institute for Government will be holding a special post-election expert discussion with:

Kieran Andrews, Scottish Political Editor at The Times
Professor Laura McAllister, Professor of Public Policy at the Wales Governance Centre, University of Cardiff
Professor Tony Travers, Professor in Practice in the Department of Government, London School of Economics
Jess Sargeant, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government

The event will be chaired by Akash Paun, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.

Webinar with Mairead McGuinness
2021-05-10 17:00 - 18:00
Mairead McGuinness is the European Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union. She served as an MEP from Ireland for 16 years, and was a Vice-President of the Parliament since 2014.
As Vice-President, she oversaw relations with national Parliaments, led the Parliament’s dialogue with religious and philosophical organisations, and had responsibility for the Parliament’s communication policy.
During her time in the Parliament, Ms McGuinness sat on a range of committees, covering agriculture, environment, public health, budgets, petitions and constitutional affairs. Her legislative work included leading for the EPP Group on the European Climate Law, the revision of medical devices legislation, and CAP reform post-2013. As an Irish MEP representing the border region, she was outspoken on Brexit and the consequences for the EU and Ireland.
The event will be chaired by Rt Hon Sir David Lidington KCB CBE.

Europe Day: The Future of UK-EU Relations
2021-05-10 18:00 - 19:00
We are delighted to announce that Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the United Kingdom, will be joining us to offer an EU perspective and update on the Trade and Co-operation Agreement, the Withdrawal Agreement, the Northern Ireland Protocol and other issues, including prospects for the EU’s Conference on the Future of Europe, which will be launched on Europe Day (9 May).
Join via the Zoom link here
Also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/369948934339623

Telling a New Story about Europe
2021-05-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Telling A New Story About Europe is a collaborative initiative to bring all the voices of the pro-European family together.
This online event will be chaired by Rachelle Headland, previously Managing Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and currently Business Development Director of an award-winning marketing and advertising agency.
Our expert panelists are:
From public opinion: Naomi Smith FCMA, CEO at Best for Britain
From storytelling: Henry Porter, Author and Journalist
From advertising: Sarah Baumann; Managing Director, VaynerMedia London
From Psychology: Professor Richard Bentall, Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield
The panel debate will be followed by a Q&A.

Inaugural John Hume ‘European Spirit of Peace’ Lecture
2021-05-10 19:00 - 21:00
David O’Sullivan, a distinguished European civil servant from Ireland and former Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, will deliver the Inaugural ‘European Spirit of Peace’ Lecture from the Hume Foundation, an organisation that draws inspiration from the life and work of John and Pat Hume who brought peaceful change to millions of people across Ireland and the UK.

Scottish Fishing Industry. European Movement in Scotland 'Teach In'
2021-05-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Brexit has seriously damaged Scotland’s fishing industry. EMiS Committee Member David Brew will lead an interactive Zoom session for members and supporters to explore the highways and byways of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the Brexit effect on Scottish fisheries.
For more information and to register, click on link below.

It's Bloody Complicated: Election Special
2021-05-11 18:00 | Online
Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice joins Caroline Lucas MP, Beth Winter MP, Layla Moran MP, Tommy Sheppard MP, and Clive Lewis MP to survey the aftermath of the local and mayoral elections, discuss where the results leave progressive politics going forward and what this will mean for the prospect of a Progressive Alliance to overturn the Tory majority in Westminster.
Sign up to have your say on all these questions and more.

Northern Ireland - next steps in the Brexit era?
2021-05-11 19:30
Guy Wilkinson chair of Salisbury for Europe will respond to our guest speaker, Ian Parsley, a leading Northern Ireland commentator.
There will be a Q&A session afterwards and European Movement’s ‘Stories of Brexit’

UK Trade and Business Commission: Financial Services
2021-05-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
This session will consider the short and long-term impact of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement on the UK’s financial services sector. Witnesses will be asked to outline the nature of UK trade in financial services, the impact of barriers to trade with the EU, and opportunities available elsewhere. Whilst the supporting professional services environment in London may be referenced it will not be the main focus of this session. The intention is rather to focus on the detail of the financial services sector, the nature of the change from member to third country, how this affects UK trade, and what practical steps can be taken with the EU and other markets to strengthen the UK.
