Category: Campaigns
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Women’s Role in Democracy and Peace
Tuesday April 16th 5pm-6:30pm Grassroots for Europe Round Table invite you to a public webinar on “Women’s Role in Democracy and Peace” with Gina Miller, Helen Maguire, Julie Ward, Kati Systä and Jane Morrice. Across Europe’s elections, women are pushing back against the hard Right. Info and registration:
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Views from Spain: democracy, the EU, and lessons for Rejoiners
Our recent Round Table event, featuring Lisa Burton, vice-chair of Bremain in Spain, and Carlos Fresneda, London Correspondent for El Mundo, made the news in North East Bylines. The Round Table event formed part of a series intended to seek perspectives from different countries in the EU on what is happening in the UK and…
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Pro-European groups should focus now on a campaign to extend the Brexit transition period
Major pro-EU groups are coming together to campaign for the UK to agree with the EU, in the transformed global setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, to postpone by two years the hard end-date of the UK’s exit transition period. Colin Gordon (Oxford for Europe)* sets the scene. The case for extending the Brexit transition period…
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Reflections on the Grassroots for Europe Conference
by Colin Gordon, Oxford for Europe The recent, excellent and highly successful Grassroots for Europe conference, “Where Now For Remain?” devoted a set of important sessions to three interlinked subjects: “The Post-truth Age – how can we bring truth & honesty back to politics?”, “Brexit Isn’t “Getting Done”! – keeping the public informed as the…