http://yerevanblog.europeanmovement.eu

The European Movement International (EMI) today launched a new blog in the framework of the next EMI congress on “Fostering Civil Society’s role for further European integration in the Eastern Partnership countries”, taking place on 20 – 21 October 2011 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The Yerevan-Blog will serve as a platform of exchange in order to prepare the Yerevan Congress and we invite you to submit your ideas on the topics to be discussed such as the Civil Society development in the Eastern Partnership countries, regional/national reform processes, Visa liberalization or simply Civil Society activities that deserve to be highlighted.

The most popular contributions will be debated during the congress with civil society actors as well as local and national public authorities from the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).

During the 2-day programme, participants will have the possibility to work on a political strategy that is supposed to provide recommendations on the further development of the regional civil society dialogue. In the long term perspective, the objective is to contribute to the democratization process and to eradicate the gap between public authorities and citizens in the policy-making process.

Have your say at http://yerevanblog.europeanmovement.eu/

For the Draft Programme and to download the Registration Form, please click here  

Background information:

As the oldest platform in promoting European integration, the European Movement International (EMI) has always strived for a more productive dialogue between civil society and public authorities. Recently, the EMI launched a political debate and started to monitor actions aimed at the development of the dialogue between civil society and public authorities in neighbouring countries, particularly in candidate and potential countries (Congresses in Ljubljana 2009 and Istanbul 2011) and in countries of the Mediterranean (Congresses in Algiers 2006 and Alicante 2009). The upcoming Yerevan Congress is to be seen in line with these previous congresses and as the next step of a long term commitment to contribute to an enhanced dialogue of civil society and public authorities at the highest level. The congress will be organised in cooperation with the National Council of the European Movement in Armenia.

For more details, please contact the EMI secretariat:

Irina Petrova

Phone: +32 2 508 30 82
Fax: +32 2 508 30 89
E-Mail: irina.petrova@europeanmovement.eu

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