Yesterday was a good day for Europe, for Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Estonia!
Celebrating with the team of Kaja Kallas at EUCO on her nomination as a candidate for the next HRVP:
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At the beginning of this week, Dušan Nitschneider, the Vice-Chair of EELA representing Slovakia met with other EELA Board members in Amsterdam to discuss various important topics, including the upcoming EELA 2024 Annual Conference in the intriguing city of Reykjavík, Iceland.
This is the first time the EELA Conference will be held in a country that is both a member of EFTA and the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which brings together EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway in the Internal Market.
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Last week, the annual German American Business Outlook (GABO) event was hosted by the GACC South - German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc.
Thank you, Stephan Scheibe and Alexia Falkenberg for representing the OERTZENGroup at the GACC New Year's Reception.
The GABO offers valuable insights into the economic sentiments and expectations of German subsidiaries operating in the United States:
According to the survey findings, 72% of these companies are planning to expand their workforce in 2024, yet they face challenges with recruitment. A staggering 91% of German companies report difficulties in attracting skilled workforce, with 29% experiencing these challenges to a significant extent.
Furthermore, when asked about their expectations for employee numbers by 2028, 82% anticipate growth in their workforce.
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🇪🇺 MEP @RenewEurope and president of the European Movement International. Former leader of the ALDE Group in the EP - former Prime Minister of Belgium.
Grateful to be elected president of the European Movement International… and ready to rumble !
Why? Because politics is a question of momentum more than anything. It needs organisations and people to drive the momentum forward.
For much of its illustrious past, the European Movement has been that organisation. It was there befóre the Council of Europe and the organisations that are now the European Union — from ’48 on. Which tells you an important lesson that today we often forget: ideas come before actions, and European unification is possible if —and only if— there is broad mobilisation of popular and public opinion before politics and institutions.
That has always has been the case, and today more than ever.
One of the very important take-aways from the Conference on the Future of Europe is that citizens are ahead of politicians in their thinking about Europe… and more impatient when it comes to results.
European values are under threat, the European spirit is actively being undermined, European policies are faltering or failing… and at the heart of all that is European politics itself falling short.
Time to push back !
The European Movement has a chance to energise people around the European ideal, especially in countries like the UK or Hungary where being ‘European’ is a tangible political and societal choice, or in the Balkans where the geopolitical need for Europe is clearest, and around issues like EU reform where the fate of European integration is really in the balance.
It’s an honour to get this mandate. It has been fifty years since a Belgian was last president of the European Movement —Jean Rey— and the second and probably best known president was no less than Paul- Henri Spaak. He said in ’48: ‘It is my solid conviction that Europe, if it does not organise itself, if it remains splintered along national lines, will fall into decay. I try to organise Europe, to make Europe, that is the ideal to which I strive with all my powers.’
Three quarters of a century on, I couldn’t have said it better: Time to get Europe moving again !
👏We are very proud to officially announce the new Board of the European Movement International.
A warm welcome to Guy Verhofstadt who is asuming the position of the European Movement International President. Following his election, he stated:
🗣️”Politics is a question of momentum. As President, at a time when the momentum is more often than not running against Europe, against the very integration and values it stands for, I want to help foster that momentum once more.”
The new board reflects the diversity, breadth and depth of the European Movement International network, and it features the following:
Treasurer: Aku Aarva
Vice Presidents (International Associations): Magdalena Adamowicz, Valeria Ronzitti, Domenec Ruiz Devesa
Vice Presidents (National Councils): Antonio Argenziano, Tobias Köck, Noelle O Connell
Members of the Board: Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga, Marco Cilento, Vanessa Cotterell, Dragana Djurica, Elias Dray, Monica Frassoni, Klaus Heeger, Emmanuel Jacob, Patrizia Heidegger, Hervé Moritz, Richard Morris, Christian Skrivervik.
Welcome!✨
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1wI hope there will be a good day for Georgia as well. October 25 (day after the elections) is our closest chance