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Europa cafe online
The Europa café online is an event of the EUROPA-UNION Baden-Württemberg.
(May 02, 2020)
From the point of view of the regional manager, today was a successful start. We could trouble shoot. In addition, our demand for a rapid network expansion of G5, especially in rural areas, has been remembered.
Our state chairwoman has today's topic: "How does the European Parliament work in Corona times?" also taken as an opportunity to report on the border closures, vouchers and our own production chains in Europe. She commented on corona bonds and reported on the latest developments in the Brexit negotiations.
She concluded that the effects of the pandemic should generally be used to provide impetus for rethinking and rethinking existing contracts. The demands for the federal state of Europe must be discussed more sustainably in the nation states.
The conference on the future of Europe must finally start so that the citizens of Europe are also included and involved in the future dialogue.
We look forward to the next Europa café online!
(May 5, 2020)
Today's second Europa Café online took us along Alejandro Cordero as rapporteur to Spain. The participants used the 60 minutes to discuss the following topics:
How do the Spaniards deal with the exceptional Corona situation?
Contact bans (leaving the house only in exceptional cases: medical emergencies, shopping, walking the dog), urban housing (some without balconies), psychological consequences for the Spaniards, new ideas for family processes (use of Instagram), the great wave of expressions of sympathy.
How do the Spaniards think about the EU?
Why are the consequences for Portugal and Spain so different?
How do the Spaniards think about Germany and how about France?
How were the Corona measures accepted by the population?
How was the impact felt in Parliament?
How is the opposition doing? and
How are the autonomous regions of Andalusia, Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia doing?
Alejandro Cordero gave us an impressive look at the current situation in Spain. In perfect German!
(May 6, 2020)
Our third Europa Café online brought us closer to Italy in Corona times. In perfect German took Stefano Milia, political scientist and member of our European sister association Movimento Federalist Europeo (MFE) http://www.mfe.it/site/, connected directly from Rome, comment on the following topics:
- Living with the curfew in force since March 9, 2020 and the impact on daily life
- Anti-German and Euro-critical attitude of a large part of the Italian population
- Insight into the political landscape, especially since the crisis in 2008
- Influence of China and Russia in Italy
- Economic situation especially for SMEs
- Impact on Northern & and the less affected Southern Italy
- Implementation of urgent administrative reforms
- Possible grants for Italy
- Reference to the many German-Italian support initiatives by the civilian population
- Generation conflict in Italian society
- Problems & lack of time to explain the complexity of the European system of civil society
Despite technical transmission problems, it was a very successful exchange and we hope that the associations can work more closely together in the future.
(May 7, 2020)
With the Member of the European Parliament, Andrew luck, member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Europa-Union continued its series "Europa Café online - 60 minutes in exchange" during Europe Week on Thursday 7 May 2020 at 12.30 p.m. Andrew luck is a doctor himself and answers questions on the topic: "Corona pandemic and its consequences for health policy in the EU". He was connected from Brussels and commented on the following topics:
- Border controls, border closures, national solo efforts
- Different competencies in the health sector
- Cooperation of the European institutions during the Corona crisis
- Globalization of production lines
- Stocking of medicines and medical devices or supplies
- Personal interaction in the European Parliament
- Attributes of a strong Europe
- Crisis reflexes of the nation states
- MFF, Green deal & Horizon Europe
- The European federal state
- Conference on the future of Europe
- Civic engagement
Due to the abundance of topics, we had to go overboard a bit, but it was worth every minute.
(May 8, 2020)
About our fifth Europa café online on the topic "How is the corona pandemic changing politics in Brussels?" we had on Friday, May 8, 2020 at 12.30 p.m Bodo Lehmann, Head of the State Representation of Baden-Württemberg in Brussels. The conversation was led by the deputy State Chair of the Europa-Union Baden-Württemberg, Florian Ziegenbalg, moderated. Mr. Lehmann was on the phone from Brussels and commented on the following topics:
- Changed work and meeting procedures of the European Parliament and the European Council
- Changed work processes in the state representation
- Impulses and measures of the European Commission
- National reactions and solidarity in the EU
- Role of the European Council
- Challenges for the EURO Group
- Reconstruction of the internal market
- ECB judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court
- Precautionary measures for possible further corona waves
- German Council Presidency from July 1 to December 31, 2020
- EU-China Summit 2020
- Conference on the future of Europe
- Response plan with temporary changes in authority in the event of a disaster
Not only because of initial technical problems did we slightly overshoot this time, but we didn't leave any question unanswered.
(May 9, 2020)
For today's Europe Day we have Rainer Wieland MEP, also in his function as President of EUROPA-UNION Germany on the sixth edition of the Europa café online on the topic "Is Corona dividing Europe?" invited. The conversation was led by the deputy State Chair of the Europa-Union Baden-Württemberg, Florian Ziegenbalg, moderated. Mr. Wieland joined us from Gerlingen and commented on these topics:
- General effects of the pandemic on Europe
- Conference on the future of Europe
- Economic & financial balancing mechanisms for the internal market
- Uniform communication strategy of the EU
- German Council Presidency
- ECB judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court
- The role of the ECB
- Personal interaction in the European Parliament
- Effects of national emergency legislation
- EPP - Hungarian MEPs
Take advantage of the other diverse virtual offers of our associations from the district to the European association today!
Here is an overview: https://www.europa-union.de/ueber-uns/m ... n-and-jef/
(May 12, 2020)
For the Europa café online edition on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, at 9.30 a.m., we have Gunther Krichbaum MdB invited to the topic "The challenges for the German Council Presidency". Mr. Krichbaum is Chairman of the Committee for European Union Affairs in the German Bundestag. The President of the European Movement Baden-Württemberg, Marion Johannsen, moderated. Mr. Krichbaum was on the phone because of technical difficulties and commented on the following topics:
- Reactions to the Corona crisis in Germany
- Recovery fund and national implementations
- Finnish & Croatian Presidency
- MFF negotiations & their impact
- effects of the recession
- Special financial situation of the "southerners"
- Solidarity in Europe
- Institutional reorganization of the EU
- Agency ECDC
- EU-China Summit 2020
- Future conference & meeting models due to minimum distance
- Consequences of the Corona-related reorganization of the program for the German Council Presidency
- Green Deal & its future funding
- Impact of Brexit on MFF
- Migration
- Upcoming border openings & effects on the EU internal market
- Existing EU financial instruments
- ECB judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court
For the first time, we reached a group of over 60 interested citizens. Despite the technical problems at the beginning, we were able to keep the number of participants stable and ensure an informative exchange.
(May 19, 2020)
On Tuesday May 19, 2020 we had dr Michael Koehler from 12.30 p.m. on the topic: "European civil protection and humanitarian aid from the EU in times of crisis" as a guest in the Europa café online. He was on the phone from Brussels. Florian goat skin, Deputy State Chairman of the Europa-Union Baden-Württemberg, moderated. dr Koehler is Deputy Director-General at the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid and has commented on the following issues:
- ECHO - European Humanitarian Aid Office and its mission
- Difference between humanitarian aid & development aid
- Impact of Covid-19 on their ways of working
- Impact of the global economic crisis on humanitarian aid
- Other international humanitarian actors using the example of China, Russia & Cuba
- Cooperation and exchange within the EU
- State partnership of Baden-Württemberg with Burundi - humanitarian situation
- Role of WHO and NGO
- Covid-19 Impact on AfCFTA - Pan-African Free Trade Area
- Health impacts on the African population
- Disinformation campaigns on the African continent
- Covid-19 spread in the South American continent and Russia
- Participation in vaccine development
The exchange was very informative and we were able to make good use of the time available to us.
(May 28, 2020)
Am Thursday, 28th May 2020 we had Clement Maury at 19.30 p.m. on the subject: "Union citizens report from France" as a guest in the Europa café online. Mr. Maury is deputy President of the Young Europeans Strasbourg - Jeunes européens Strasbourg. He commented on these issues:
- Trinational Council of Young Europeans - JEF Oberrhein
- Overview of the consequences of the corona measures in the border area
- Economic impact in France
- Impact on French local elections
- Conspiracy theories in France
- Role of France in Europe
- Unilateral border closures, controls and their consequences for cross-border cooperation
- Support for neighboring countries in the medical care of corona patients
- Effects on social interaction in the border area
At our first meeting in the evening we had fewer participants than usual. Thanks to the smaller group, we were able to use the very informative Powerpoint-based presentation to intensively exchange information about future campaigns by the European associations after the presentation. We are now planning to promote the constant exchange with representatives of the European associations from France, Switzerland, Austria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Germany (the circle can be constantly expanded) at jours fixe several times a year in video conferences. This should also give more impetus to tried and tested international event formats such as the Strasbourg/Freiburg Talks or the Hertenstein Talks. By the way, the newly tested software GoToMeeting has proven itself!
(July 15, 2020)
At the 10th Europa café online, our guest, Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg MEP, on the following questions on "Mobility in the corona crisis - traffic turnaround now even more so!" Position:
- Why do we need a traffic turnaround?
- Is the corona crisis also an opportunity?
- What course must be set in the EU?
After Ms. Deparnay-Grunenberg's PowerPoint-based presentation, the following questions from the participants were discussed:
- Covid-19 protection on the train and in public transport?
- CO2 footprint on products?
- European cooperation in the field of electromobility?
- Is the European Parliament working towards using the Recovery Fund for the renaissance of the railways?
- How far along is the development of Europe-wide standardized plugs for e-mobility?
- Trans-European train tickets - through ticket, is it possible?
- Keyword pop-up bicycle paths - bicycle concepts are available, but have to be negotiated with the citizenry. Why can't they be implemented in Stuttgart?
- Transformation of the automotive industry?
- Rethink commuter flat rates?
The discussion shows that many approaches that come from civil society could certainly find support and could also be implemented. Unfortunately, finding a consensus at the political level is very difficult.
Addition: Inflation is stronger than before the euro?
No. The euro has been around for 25 years. On average, the Eurosystem (ECB + national central banks) achieved the inflation target significantly better between 1999 and 2020 than was the case before. The phase of current inflation as a result of the Corona crisis and the supply bottlenecks and the energy crisis has driven up prices worldwide in 2021 and 2022. Inflation has been falling continuously since the end of 2022 and is approaching 2% again.
In addition, the common currency has given Europe stability in various crises.
The common currency supports the domestic market and has helped Germany achieve strong export performance.
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I would like to add to the minutes of the “Europe Now!” discussion group that we participants also debated how “natural” Europe has become, especially for us younger people. Many of us don't know any different. Travel without borders, pay in euros, no customs fees when shopping online, we hardly know any other way. It is important to demonstrate these freedoms in order to arouse interest in Europe.
Likewise, the majority of the group agreed that we are not afraid, but rather feel concern and uncertainty when we observe current developments.
Dear Semin, this addition actually belongs as an answer under the post: https://kuemmerle.name/foren/topic/protokolle-7-hertensteiner-gespraeche#postid-291 by Walther Heipertz. You can find this option as “Answers” immediately to the right below each forum post.
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Would be a topic for the next round on January 18.1.2023th, XNUMX, right? It's no good if we fill it up alone 😉
As we were able to determine, the half-life of such rounds is not sufficient to fill a forum even remotely. Where non-binding has become a principle, you really have to think about completely new communication channels.
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