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  • How to reform the Union for the future of Europe?

    On Friday 3 December 2021, the ECR Group will host an international expert conference in Warsaw on the future of the European Union, entitled: "How to reform the Union for the future of Europe". Notable figures from academia will come together across three discussion panels, entitled: ‘How to properly define common European values, and how to work these values into the Treaties’, ‘How to reform the institutional system of the EU’ and ‘Change of the Treaty: How to transpose the proposed institutional form into a legal framework’.

  • ECR Eastern Partnership Summit

    On Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 March 2022, the ECR Group will host recognised experts in the fields of security, economy, democratisation and European integration, as well as current and former decision-makers from the Eastern Partnership region for the first ECR Eastern Partnership Summit, titled ‘Eastern Partnership – Europe as a civilisational choice’.

  • Their only crime was not being Russian: The Circassian Genocide

    The Circassian genocide, or The Tlapserykh, was the 19th century Russian Empire's systematic extermination, ethnic cleansing and forced expulsion of up to 97 percent of the north Caucasus Mountain’s indigenous Circassians from their ancestral lands.

  • With open hearts

    Room ASP 6 B54

    Relief efforts of Central and Eastern Europe to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian war against Ukraine.

  • Freedom of Speech: Who dares anymore?

    MEP Assita Kanko is hosting a conference on freedom of expression with guests; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writer and activist, and the philosopher, Pascal Bruckner. The event will delve into topics such as freedom of thought and action, wokeness, cancel culture, Islam, human rights, identity and European values.

  • Europe is Ukraine, Ukraine is Europe

    The war in Ukraine has not yet ended, so each of us, as Europeans, must help our neighbour fight and win this brutal war. Only together can we make a difference.

  • Kalinowski Conference

    On Tuesday 21 June 2022, ECR Foreign Affairs Coordinator Anna Fotyga will host a conference in cooperation with the Kalinowski Forum. The discussion will focus on the future of a democratic Belarus as part of the European family and in the context of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. The event will open with special remarks from Žygimantas Pavilionis, Chairperson of the Kalinovski Forum; Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland; Ms Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania; Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of democratic Belarus; and Olivér Várhelyi, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement. The Conference will cover topics such as ‘The battle for freedom, Lukashenko’s regime in the context of the war against Ukraine’, ‘The people of freedom’. Repressions and the situation of political prisoners’, ‘Sanctions. Deterring Lukashenko’s internal violence and alignment with the Russian aggressor’ and ‘Truth vs. lies. The situation of independent media vs regime propaganda’.

  • Documentary \”Armed against communism\”

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    On Tuesday 27 September 2022, ECR MEP Alexandr Vondra, together with the Informal Group on European Remembrance, will host a screening of the documentary "Armed against communism", followed by a discussion with Josef Mašín, hero of the armed resistance against communism.

  • Not Only Putin | Russia’s Deep State, Society, and Foreign Assets in the War Against Ukraine

    With timely debates on Russia's hybrid threats and the war it is waging on Ukraine over the week, ECR Coordinator on Foreign Affairs MEP Anna Fotyga has invited a panel of renowned Russian and Ukrainian politicians, historians and dissidents to participate in a high-level conference entitled "Not Only Putin - Russia's Deep State, Society, and Foreign Assets in the War Against Ukraine".

  • ECR Eurolat Iberosphere Summit, Madrid

    Eurostar Madrid Tower

    For the second consecutive year, the ECR Eurolat Working Group will hold a transatlantic meeting promoting the defence of democracy against attacks from new forms of totalitarianism and dictatorship in the Iberosphere.