Press Release   May 2006.

Study and Reflection Day

European Citizenship in its Diversity

Casablanca, 13 May 2006.

Under the auspices of the Wilaya of Greater Casablanca and the European Commission Morocco organised by The Europeans Throughout the World in collaboration with the Institut Marocain des Relations Internationales.

This Day which gathered more than 150 Moroccan and European participants falls within the objectives of The Europeans Throughout the World to organise the European diaspora. 

Casablanca was an ideal choice for a first meeting of its kind. This commercial, industrial and cultural metropolis has since a long time hosted numerous expatriates and the curious explorers of the world have left from here since a very long time ago.

On 16 January Secretary General Simon-Pierre Nothomb, Executive Vice-President Hans Jorgen Helms and Deputy Secretary General Mrs Marie-Claude Hayoit de Termicourt participated at the New Year’s Reception offered by the member association VIW. They congratulated VIW President Thiebaut with the agreement he signed at the event with Minister Geert Bourgeois of the Flemish Government. They thanked him and Mrs Van Gool, VIW managing director, for their continuing support to the ETTW. This was also the occasion to have an exchange of views with Minister Bourgeois and share with him the importance of European affairs and European diaspora.
 

The regular Board and General Assembly meeting were held on 19 October chaired by Mr. Enrique Barón Crespo, President of ETTW. Next to the ordinary members, the meeting was attended by three presidents of member associations Messrs. Heiremans of U.F.B.E., Mr. Thiebaud of VIW and Mr. Klimo of the new member association World Association of Slovaks Living Abroad. An important guest delegation from Luxembourg also joined the meeting.

Statement by ETTW  at the colloquium
" L'Europe que nous voulons "
at the European Parliament on 28 April 2005 

organised by
Iniative Européenne avec L'Union Européenne Fédéraliste Groupe- Europe,
 la Gauche européenne, Les Européens dans le Monde et la C.I.M-Belgio
 
Europe of the Expatriates: the 26th Country of the Union?

 Although equivalent in demographic terms to Anatolia, Europe of the expatriates is sadly neglected by Europe of the Institutions. And yet, despite being diverse and scattered worldwide, this multi-faceted diaspora is gradually coming together and has no doubts about its European identity in its day-to-day life.

This argument was made forcefully on behalf of its twenty member associations and representations by the confederation of Europeans throughout the World at the seminar at which President Jacques Santer was the main speaker.

Seminar on « The dual nationality », Belgian Federal Parliament in collaboration with VIW and U.F.B.E.

 Monday 9 May 2005.

Summary report