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REGISTRATION

We are delighted to inform you that the registration to Federal Committee Meeting on Saturday, 11 February 2023 and on Sunday, 12 February 2023, is now open.

The FC meeting is open to members and observers.

Kindly find here the invitation as sent to the members of the Federal Committee:

If you are unable to attend and your section has already exhausted the list of Substitute Members, you may issue a proxy.

AGENDA and VENUE

We are delighted to inform you about the venues of the Federal Committee Meeting:

Saturday, 11 February 2023, Representation of the State of Hesse to the European Union, Rue Montoyer 21, B-1000 Bruxelles

Sunday, 12 February 2023: Mundo B, Rue d'Edimbourg 26, B-1050 Brussels-Ixelles.

We sincerely thank the Representation of the State of Hesse to the European Union for making its venues available for the Federal Committee of UEF!

DEADLINES

In view of the Federal Committee meeting, the UEF Secretariat would like to remind you of the deadlines set by the Federal Committee Rules of Procedure for the presentation and management of resolutions.

Article 10.2 of the Federal Committee Rules of Procedure states that resolutions must be sent to the Secretariat within three weeks of the FC meeting so that they can then be made available to all FC members. In the case of the next meeting:

All resolutions and amendaments must be sent to the email address of the Secretariat (secretariat@federalists.eu)

POLITICAL COMMISSIONS MEETINGS

Saturday, 11 February 2023, 9:30 – 18:00

POLITICAL DEBATE: THE COFOE A KEY DEMOCRATIC MOMENT

Role & mission of the civil society organisations to support the European Parliament and the Commission to fully implement its results

The Conference on the Future of Europe was a key democratic moment that involved citizens in a reflection on the nature and future of the European Union. It was not a formality, or a mere consultative exercise. At the end of a multi-layered process, the citizens drew up precise requests: they demanded that the European Union be strengthened in terms of external and internal action and that European democracy be developed further, both through forms of direct democracy and by giving more powers and competences to the Union's political institutions.

Most of the proposals elaborated in the conference can be implemented under current treaties, but some require Treaty change. They are few, but fundamental, for increasing the powers and improving the decision-making mechanisms of the EU. The European Parliament, with the support of the Commission, has already taken action to call for a Convention to reform the Treaties, and will present a report with its proposals in the spring.

What needs to be done now to enter the next phase? What can and needs to be done by  the civil society organisations to generate political pressure in the Council on the one hand, and how can the UEF mobilise its network to drive the debate at local level on the other?

We would like to discuss all this with representatives from politics and the sections.

• COLIN SCICLUNA, Head of Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission Dubravka Šuica and former Co-Head of the Common Secretariat of the CoFoE
• MARKUS FERBER, MEP (EPP), Vice-President of the Union of European Federalists
• SANDRO GOZI, MEP (Renew) President of the Union of European Federalists
• GIULIA ROSSOLILLO, Professor of European Union Law at the University of Pavia, Member of the Executive Bureau of UEF
• DOMÈNEC RUIZ DEVESA, MEP (S&D), Vice-President of the Union of European Federalists

Moderator:  JULIAN PLOTTKA, Universities of Bonn and Passau; Chair of Political Commission 1 of the Union of European Federalists

MEETINGS OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSIONS (14.30)

• Political Commission 1: Institutional Affairs (CoFoE, Democracy)
  

Chair: Julian Plottka; Rapporteur: Giulia Rossolillo

Panel Debate: "Putting the Future of Europe into Practice: the Need to Respect Citizens' Will"

Welcome & introduction: SANDRO GOZI, MEP (Renew) President of the Union of European Federalists and President of the Spinelli Group

Panel Debates

• LAURA MARIA CINQUINI, Citizens‘ Representative to the CoFoE from Italy
• HUUB VERHOEVEN, Citizens‘ Representative to the CoFoE from the Netherlands

Followed by Q&A

Moderator: JULIAN PLOTTKA, Universities of Bonn and Passau; Chair of Political Commission 1 of the Union of European Federalists

Documents:

1) Proposal of the Direzione nazionale of the Movimento Federalista Europeo for a federalist campaign
2) Petition's to EU Council approved by Direzione Nazionale MFE "Respect the citizen's will"

• Political Commission 2: Rule of Law, Values & European Cohesion

Chair: Léonie Martin; Rapporteur: Eszter Nagy

Panel Debate: The EU's rule of law mechanism at work: The sharpest tool in the box?”

• GWENDOLINE DELBOS-CORFIELD, MEP (Greens/EFA)
• SIMONA CONSTANTIN, Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission Vĕra Jourová
• SÁNDOR RÓNAI, MEP (S&D)

Moderator: ESZTER NAGY, President of UEF Hungary, EB-Member and Rapporteur of Political Commission 2 of the Union of European Federalists

• Political Commission 3: Foreign Affairs & Security

Chair: Carlo Maria Palermo; Deputy Chair: Prof. Dimitrios Triantaphyllou;

Rapporteurs: Wolfgang Wettach and Laura Tatarelyte

• Introduction & Workplan of PC3
• Working Group Ukraine: sharing actions/advocacy
• Discussion and voting on Resolution “On a victorious Ukraine in a Federal Europe”
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This activity is part of the project 101105089 — UEF-CERV-2022-OG-SGA financed by the EACEA under the CERV programme.