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Morning Session I
Roman Huber and Michael Efler, board members, Mehr Demokratie e.V. |
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Democratic Deficit of the European Union: What does that mean? |
09.00-09.30 |
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The Convention on the Future of Europe: Background, previous work, status quo and outlook |
09.30-10.00 |
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Proposals: Direct Democracy in Europe |
10.00-10.30 |
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Morning Session II
Heiko Dittmer and Thomas Rupp, Democracy International |
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History of the European Referendum Campaign |
11.00-11.20 |
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Idea, conception, structure of the campaign |
11.20-11.50 |
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Unsolved questions... What do you expect? - Discussion |
11.50-12.30 |
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| Afternoon Session |
| Seminars |
14.00-14.45 |
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1) Basics of Direct Democracy with respect on the European Referendum Campaign, (by Bruno Kaufmann, president of IRI-Europe) |
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2)How to lobby the national Parliament?! (by Michael Efler) |
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3)How to communicate the campaign?! (by Thomas Rupp) |
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4) How to build a cooperation network?! (by Heiko Dittmer & Sharon Bonici) |
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| Workshops |
15.15-16.30 |
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1) Ideas for international cooperation and events and activities |
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2) How to get individuals involved into the campaign? |
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3) What are the first steps in your countries? |
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4) Strategy for media – Fact sheet for press work |
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5) Referendum standards and criteria |
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Plenum |
17.00-18.00 |
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Reception of H.E. Ambassador of Switzerland Rudolf Staub in cooperation with Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe, Amsterdam |
from 19.00 |