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The "Europe schools": twinning for a Europe of citizens
01/12/08
200 participants from 20 towns attended the launch of the network "Europe schools", on 28 and 29 November 2008 in Saint-Alban (France).The Europe schools project was created by the twinning committee of Saint-Alban. Its main feature is that in each town twinned with Saint-Alban, citizens meet to debate issues linked to European integration.The chair of CEMR twinning network, Janusz Marszalek, was invited to the launch alongside Risto Raivio, head of the Europe for citizens programme at the European Commission.Janusz Marszalek insisted on the relevance of twinning in Europe; he also spoke about CEMR's "100% twinning" website. -
Golden Stars 2008: Rewarding European citizenship initiatives
15/11/08
The annual Golden stars award ceremony took place in Brussels on 13 November 2008.The projects that we are awarding the Golden Stars to demonstrate that Europe.has been constructed for its citizens—and it is Europe's citizens that will make the difference, said EU Commissioner Education, training, culture and youth, Ján Figel. The EU is more than being about business and economy; we need to develop more its human side. I am convinced that more civic participation will take Europe further and develop it into something even more human. -
CEMR launches new European twinning website on 13 November 2008
13/11/08
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) will launch its new multilingual website totally devoted to town twinning, on 13 November 2008 in Brussels.The new website will help Europe's local governments find.twinning partners and will feature over 20 languages including Ukrainian, Icelandic, Latvian, Greek, Romanian, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese... It will boast an elaborate online form enabling municipalities to post “seeking a partner” requests that will be instantly available in all of the languages.
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Town twinning: "The 2008 Golden Stars are..."
22/07/08
The European Commission has awarded the 2008 Golden Stars to twinnings projects that encourage action and debate on EU issues at grass-roots level. -
Janusz Marszalek, mayor of Oswiecim (Poland), is the new president of CEMR's twinning network
28/05/08
Janusz Marszalek, the mayor of the Polish City of Oswiecim, has been elected president of twinning network of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) on 5 May 2008, in Reykjavik.
The new chair was unanimously elected by the members of the CEMR's Policy Committee gathered in Reykjavik on Monday 5th May 2008. He succeeds Anders Knape who had held this position since 2002 and who had sent the President of CEMR his letter of resignation following his election as CEMR's First Vice-President...
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