"We need to know more about each other in order to be able to launch more common projects", said Diogo Pinto, Secretary General of the European Movement International (EMI), during his visit on the 23 and 24 of August to the National Council of the European Movement in Germany. Board members and staff of the European Movement in Germany met with Mr Pinto to discuss best practices and the potential for further cooperation. In particular, as the EMI is committed to expanding its membership at the international level, Mr Pinto was eager to know more about the very successful membership enlargement strategy of the European Movement in Germany, which is currently one of the largest EMI national networks, encompassing more than two hundred member organisations.
Furthermore, Mr Pinto underlined the need to improve the exchange of information between the EMI and its Member Organisations and among the latter. In order to nurture this enhanced dialogue, Mr Pinto also met with Christian Moos, European Affairs Coordinator of the German Civil Service Association, a national branch of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI), and an EMI member organisation. Both parties stressed that it will be their priority to promote and intensify the networking structures within the European Movement.
Finally, Mr Pinto was updated on the latest developments of the international project “Train4EU”. “Train4EU” is a training programme, jointly developed by the European Movement in Germany and Serbia, that supports local administrators in South Eastern Europe in the process of EU integration. The programme provides participants with an advanced EU-training while building up a network of EU key-experts with special focus on local administrations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
For more information on Train 4EU please visit:
http://www.europaeische-bewegung.de/aktivitaeten-projekte/train4eu/