On June 23, 2008, a week after the Irish referendum, more than 100 delegates from member organisations of the EM Germany met for their yearly members assembly in Berlin – and it became a very European day in the premises of the French Embassy. The morning started with a EU-De-Briefing on the results of the European Council of 19./20. June (8.30 h) with more than 120 participants. Between 10 h and 13 h the members assembly re-elected Dr. Dieter Spoeri as president of the Network EM Germany and elected a new executive board. Moreover, 13 new organisations joined the Network EM Germany which has now 155 member organisations. A long debate followed the presentation of the work-programme of 2009. It became obvious that the focus will be on the European Elections 2009 – and it was interesting to see how many activities are planned by different member organisations. Therefore, EM Germany will concentrate on collecting all these activities and will try to coordinate these with the political institutions in Germany, especially the Office of the European Parliament. Second focus was directed on the further development of the concept "Communicating Europe & European Agenda". EU-De-Briefings after Council-Meetings have been extended to six policy areas during the last year and others should follow, especially consumer-affairs, telecommunication and energy. First talks with the respective ministries have been taken place already. Special guests at the member assembly were the president of EM Austria, Friedhelm Frischenschlager and the president of EM France, Sylvie Goulard. In her closing speech Goulard suggested to have a more intensive exchange between the National Councils of the European Movement – not only between Germany and France. She knows what she is talking about – with the German Lisa Heldwein as Secretary General at the EM France…