Posts Tagged ‘ Barcelona ’

Roche Re-elected ELDR VP

October 17, 2010
By Stephen
Roche Re-elected ELDR VP

Image via Wikipedia Irish Minister for Europe, Dick Roche, has been re-elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party at its recent congress in Helsinki. He was originally elected last November at the ELDR’s congress in Barcelona. He was elected with 67% of the vote. The other Vice Presidents Elected were Graham Watson, of the UK Liberal Democrats, former leader of the ALDE grouping of the European Parliament and Vesna Pusic of the...

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Its All Gone Quiet….

March 5, 2010
By Stephen
Its All Gone Quiet….

Image by Martha★ via Flickr So I arrive in Barcelona and the blogging goes quiet…. Whats the deal you ask? Well Anna Lindh Foundation have set up a group blog where a bunch of us are blogging our experiences at the Forum. There are some cracking blog posts over there so do check it out. Tonight I met with some of the members of the Irish Network of Anna Lindh and I hope to get to know them better...

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Hello from Barcelona!!!

March 4, 2010
By Stephen
Hello from Barcelona!!!

Image via Wikipedia Good afternoon from a warm Barcelona. I have reached my destination (unlike my luggage) and I am ensconced in my hotel room waiting for things to start across the road at the CCIB. I may have neglected to inform you why I’m actually here. Well apart from blogging over on Conference Blog (shhh its not live yet! ) I will be giving my thoughts on the blogger trainer i did last year. From the Programme Intercultural...

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Join the Debate in Barcelona

March 3, 2010
By Stephen
Join the Debate in Barcelona

Well tomorrow I am off to Barcelona for the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010. I will be live-blogging and tweeting about the forum, with the help of a few others. I know I am not a big user of twitter at the moment, but college is taking up a lot of the time I would have spent on it, so I will be back to it tomorrow. You too, though, will be able to see whats happening and pass...

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ALF Forum 2010

January 10, 2010
By Stephen
ALF Forum 2010

Image via Wikipedia The Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010 takes place in Barcelona from the 4th of March to the 7th of March. The Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialogue in the Union for the Mediterranean region and to enrich the activities of the forty-three National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation The Forum is being  organised by the Anna Lindh Foundation in partnership with the European Institute...

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Roche, ELDR Vice President

November 20, 2009
By Stephen
Roche, ELDR Vice President

Image via Wikipedia As well as the appointments made by the European Council last night (more on that later), another recent appointment has come to my knowledge. Dick Roche, the current Minister for Europe, has been made a Vice-President of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR) . From what I am hearing, a lot of people are not happy about this. Pat Cox, the former President of the ELDR is not a happy man from what I hear,...

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