Federalist Intervention Task force in Brussels (FIT- Bxl) aims at increasing the visibility of federalists in the European level debate and bringing the federalist voice and visions to EVERY relevant Brussels event. All kinds of organisations and institutions organise debates and conferences with a large audience - by simply being present as participants we can raise our hands and make a question or intervention with key federalist messages. With very few human resources, thousands will receive our messages!

IN PRACTICE - UEF Secretariat will coordinate an agenda with a selection of events and conferences in Brussels and send it out to the task force members fortnightly. If you are inspired, please contact us on campaign(at)federalists.eu before the event to say you plan to go and after the event to say you attended and briefly state what you intervened about. If you hear of good events do let us know on the same address!

Each person only needs to commit to VISIT 1 EVENT PER MONTH. By joining up small commitments from each of us we can make federalism the most present voice in Brussels!

POLITICAL CONTENT - As basis for our interventions we are working on a document including argumentation per topic that we will share with you soon. This should help you prepare your interventions and get inspiration! It is up to you to see what issue is good to bring up, and also to see if it makes more sense to take up a federalist issue that is not explicitly covered by the ‘Federalist arguments sheet’.

Please find below the very first issue of the FIT Agenda! Please don’t forget to contact us on campaign(at)federalists.eu before the event to say you plan to go and after the event to say you attended and briefly state what you intervened about. If you hear of good events do let us know on the same address!

We enclose a Federalist arguments sheet we drafted for you and that could help you prepare your interventions and get inspiration! If you have any remarks or suggestions on slogans that you wish to further develop please get in touch.

Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think might have an interest to join and if you think of someone we should add to our list, do let us know: every voice counts!

FEDERALISTS INTERVENTION TASKFORCE


Wednesday 30 November 2011, 19.30

St Andrew Day Celebration

Polish Federalists in Brussels

The Wild Geese, 2-4 avenue Livingstone




Thursday 1 December 2011, from 19.00 on

A la découverte de Malte ? Soirée culturelle « découverte Europe »

Mouvement européen Belgique/Maltese Permanent representation to the EU and the Maltese  
embassy to Belgium

Malta House, rue Archimède 25, 1000 Bruxelles.

With

Pierre Clive Agius, Ambassador of Malta to the Kingdom of Belgium

Maïté Abram, Director Mouvement Européen-Belgique

Registration

Thursday 8 December 2011, 09.00

Shadow European Council

The Spinelli Group

The Residence palace, 155 rue de la Loi

More info




Friday 9 December 2011, 19.00-22.00

Federalists' Christmas drink in Brussels

UEF, JEF-Europe and EUD Brussels

JEF Office, Chaussée de Wavre 214d

More info

Monday 28 November 2011, 8.30? 17.00

The New Challenges to Global Security

OTAN / Carnegie Europe

The Stanhope Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

With

Amb. Ivo Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO

Amb. Mihnea Constantinescu, General Director, Policy Directorate, Romanian Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs,

Prof. François Géré, Président (Founder), Institut français d?analyse stratégique (IFAS),

Dr. Markus Kaim, Director of Security Policy Studies at the German Institute for 
International and Security Affairs (SWP),
More info

Registration





Tuesday 29 November 2011, 9.30 ? 16.00

Europe and China: Rivals or strategic partners?

Friends of Europe

Bibliothèque Solvay - Parc Léopold - Rue Belliard 137

With

Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

Joaquin Almunia, Commissioner for competition

Leon Brittan, former Commissioner, member of UBS boards

Wang Yiming, Vice-president of the Academy of Macroeconomic

Research at the National Development and Reform Commission

(NDRC)

Martin Jacques, author of ?When China Rules the World: the

Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World?

More info and Registration




Tuesday 29 November, 10.00 ? 17.00

Open Dialogue between Institutions and Citizens: Chances and Challenges

CEPS/Austrian Institute for European Law and Policy/Danube University Krems workshop

Representation of Saxony-Anhalt, Boulevard Saint-Michel 80, 1040 Brussels

With

Michel Praet, Member, Cabinet of the President, European Council

Gundi Gadesmann, Media and External Relations Officer, European Ombudsman

Heinz Becker, MEP

Eva Lichtenberger, MEP

David Lowe, Head of Unit, Secretariat of the Petitions Committee, European Parliament

More info

Registration:  





Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 14.00 - 4.00

Transparency and accountability in the EU institutions: What has been achieved and what 
are the challenges

Open Europe

Avenue Marnix, 22

With

Maros Sefcovic, European Commissioner for Inter-institutional relations

Diana Wallis MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament

Mats Persson, Director of Open Europe

More info

Registration      





Wednesday 30 November 2011, 9.30 ? 16.00

Balkans scorecard: Assessing the region?s key pointers

Friends of Europe

Bibliothèque Solvay - Parc Léopold - Rue Belliard 137

With

Stefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy

Bakir Izetbegovi, Bosniak Member of the Tri-Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serge Brammertz

Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former 
Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Igor Luksis, Prime Minister of Montenegro

Samuel Sbogar, Foreign Affairs Minister of Slovenia

More info

Registration 





Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12.30 ?14.30

The Polish EU Presidency ? assessment and perspectives

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office, rue du Taciturne 38

With Mikolaj Dowgielewicz Secretary of State for European affairs and economic policy, 
Republic of Poland

<http://www.fes-europe.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=64&lang=en> 

More 

Registration





Wednesday 30 November 2011, 18.00-20.00

Debate on the future of the EU budget

Office of the Wielkopolska Region, Avenue de l?Yser 19

With Janusz Lewandowski, Commissioner for financial programming and budget and Alain 
Lamassoure MEP

More info






Thursday 1 December 2011, 8.45

Finance focus breakfast: Debating a European tax on financial transactions

Bruegel

Rue de la Charité 33-1210 Brussels

With

Manfred Bergmann, Director, European Commission DG TAXUD
Sony Kapoor, Managing Director, Re-Define
Michael Kroener, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

More info

Registration 
(registration closes by the 30th of  November)

Thursday, 1 December 2011, 13.00 -14.00

The Golden Rule on Debt Ceilings: Necessary, Useful or Dangerous?

Madariaga ? College of Europe Foundation

14, avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée

With

Lars Feld, Professor, University of Freiburg

Ann Pettiforn, Director, PRIME

Pierre Defraigne, executive director, Madariaga ? College of Europe Foundation

More info

Registration





Thursday, 1 December 2011 - 13h15 - 14h30

Two years after Lisbon: The Commission?s view

CEPS

1, Place du Congrès

With Maro? ?ef?ovi?, European Commission Vice-president

More info

Registration





Thursday 1 and Friday 2 December  2011

Round table conference: Democracy promotion East and South after the Arab Spring

Re-evaluating the EU's Engagement with Authoritarian Regimes

TEPSA/ Maastricht University/  <http://www.iep-berlin.de/> Institut für Europäische 
Politik.

Maastricht University, Brussels Campus, Avenue de L'Armée / Legerlaan 10, 1040 Brussels

The conference intends to bring together senior members of the Brussels diplomatic 
community, European institutional decision makers, academic scholars and relevant 
stakeholders

More info

Registration





Friday 2 December 2011, Hours not communicated yet

CER/Interel breakfast on ?The future of the European Commission?

Venue not communicated yet

With Catherine Day, Secretary General, European Commission

More info

Friday 2 December 2011, 12:45

Lunchtalk/Debate : Adjustment through the crisis: the case of Ireland

Bruegel

Rue de la Charité 33-1210 Brussels

With

István Székely, Director, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European  Commission

Philip Lane, Professor of International Macroeconomics and 
Head of Economics Department at Trinity College Dublin

Alan Ahearne, Bruegel non-resident scholar

Registration (registration closes the 1st December)





Monday 5 December 2011, 13.15 ? 14.30

Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty: 10 years on from the Laeken Declaration

1, Place du Congrès

With Ben J.J. Crum, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

More info

Registration





Tuesday 6 December 2011, 9.30 ? 17.00

Restrictive migration policies and the responsibility of the media: the impact on migrants

EPC

Résidence Palace, 155 rue de la Loi

With

Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs
Olaf Hahn, Chair, European Programme for Integration and Migration
Kinga Göncz MEP, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats
Sajjad Karim MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists Group
Judith Sargentini MEP, the Greens/European Free Alliance group
Renate Weber MEP, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Don Flynn, Migrant Rights Network and the European Network Against Racism
Marc Janssen, President, Conseil Superieur de l?Audiovisuel
Anke Schuster, Project Development and Liaison Officer, IOM
Bruno Waterfield, Brussels Correspondent, Daily Telegraph
Antonio Vitorino, former European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs
Yves Pascouau, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre

More info

Regitration





Thursday 8 December 2011, 10.00 ? 16.00

Bank business models, diversity and the future of regulation

CEPS

1, Place du Congrès

With

Dominique Thienpont, European Commission official

Philippe Lamberts, MEP

Giovanni Ferri, Professor, University of Bari

Reinhard Schmidt, Professor, University of Frankfurt

Jan Schildbach, Vice-president, banking and regulation, Deutsche Bank

Freddy Van den Spiegel, Consellor, BNP Paribas

Arnold Kuijpers, Director, Corporate Affairs, Rabobank

More info

Registration





Thursday 8 December 2011,11.00 ?12.15

EU?s role in the South Caucasus

EPC

With

Phillipe Lefort, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in 
Georgia
Evgeni Kirilov, Member, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, 
European Parliament; Member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and 
EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, European Parliament
Dennis Sammut, Executive Director, LINKS

More info

Registration





Thursday 8 December 2011, 09.30 ? 17.30

Transparrency & Openess

European Commission

European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, 1160 Auderghem

open event with e-Government project implementers; stakeholders in FP6 and FP7 research 
projects; researchers; businesses; European Commission officers; ePractice members etc.

More info

Registration

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