• About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Statutes
    • Board
    • Member
      • Corporate
      • Personal
    • Management
    • Become a Member
  • Our Programme
    • CEO Roundtables
    • Our Cooperations
    • Lectures
    • Members’ talk
    • Webinars
    • Our Studies
  • Advocacy Programme
    • Mentoring Programme
    • Advocacy Seminars
    • Advocacy Webinars
    • Advocacy Network
    • Advocacy Voices
    • Rome Manifesto
      • The Manifesto
      • The Story behind the Manifesto
      • Partner Organisations
  • Events
    • Past events
  • DE
  • EN
  • DE
United Europe
United Europe
  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Statutes
    • Board
    • Member
      • Corporate
      • Personal
    • Management
    • Become a Member
  • Our Programme
    • CEO Roundtables
    • Our Cooperations
    • Lectures
    • Members’ talk
    • Webinars
    • Our Studies
  • Advocacy Programme
    • Mentoring Programme
    • Advocacy Seminars
    • Advocacy Webinars
    • Advocacy Network
    • Advocacy Voices
    • Rome Manifesto
      • The Manifesto
      • The Story behind the Manifesto
      • Partner Organisations
  • Events
    • Past events
  • DE
Join
  • Advocacy Seminars
  • Advocacy Voices

Alumni Meeting in Helsinki: What a Year for Europe

  • April 27, 2017

Meeting for the first time in Helsinki, United Europe’s alumni and friends spent a fascinating evening debating Europe’s future in a year marked by so many national elections. With Emmanuel Macron leading the polls into the second round of elections in France, the group compared his young, visionary and positive message to the politics of Canada’s president Justin Trudeau. Participants concluded that Europe needs a more emotional appeal to win support for its principles of freedom, peace and democracy. In that sense, the success of the Pulse of Europe movement – which managed to bring thousands of Europeans on the streets in over 60 European cities this spring – is very hopeful.

The participants also discussed the #RomeManifesto and its vision for the future of Europe. An interesting debate ensued about the concept of a federal union. To Central Europeans like the Germans or Austrians, federalism means limiting the centre’s powers; to many other it rings of “superstate”. Yet certainly, the division of powers between the future European Union and its member states needs to be re-ordered. You can read the Rome Manifesto, a joint project by United Europe and Villa Vigoni on: www.romemanifesto.eu

After a long and intense discussion, the participants enthusiastically agreed to meet again in a few months time to continue the debate and exchange about Europe’s future.

If you are interested in attending future events in Helsinki or any of our other alumni cities, please contact us on

We look forward to hearing from you and please also follow us on Twitter for the newest updates from United Europe: @unitedeurope_eu

  • share 
  • tweet 
  • share 
  • share 
  • save 
  • share 
  • share 
  • email 
Other Advocacy Seminars
  • Advocacy Webinar on the European future of rail
    • March 10, 2022
  • Application Call for United Europe’s first Advocacy Seminar in 2023
    • January 12, 2023
  • Advocacy Seminar in Berlin “Africa and Europe, a strategic partnership at last?”
    • July 5, 2022
Other Advocacy Voices
  • Review of United Europe’s Mentoring Programme 2021: Michael Suckow – Why the answer to global challenges with Megatrends on the verge should be a European one
    • August 15, 2022
  • Review of United Europe’s Mentoring Programme 2021: Rafael Stein – Five lessons for an EU career
    • July 25, 2022
  • Why is Europe so divided over helping Ukraine? Is cheap energy worth a Ukrainian genocide? An article by Anna Romandash
    • April 25, 2022
++APPLICATION CALL++ADVOCACY SEMINAR IN BERLIN++in partnership with @EYnews and @dgapev ⌚️When? 6 February 2023 📍… https://t.co/t0qtFRtojg
14 days ago
  • Reply
  • 3 Retweet
  • Favorite
Follow
„We are better together – economically, culturally and in every other way. Better together with 500 million people.“

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
Member of the House of Lords

More prominent opinions
Search
Trending Posts
  • Energy Security: Rethinking the European energy market
    • October 10, 2022
  • Review: United Europe’s Energy Security Summit in Vienna
    • November 16, 2022
  • Mentoring Programme: United Europe kicks off class 2022/23
    • November 23, 2022
  • Application Call for United Europe’s first Advocacy Seminar in 2023
    • January 12, 2023
  • Review on United Europe’s Panel Discussion “A New Geopolitical Order: How Reliable is the Transatlantic Partnership?” at Würth Haus in Berlin
    • December 14, 2022
  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Statutes
    • Board
    • Member
    • Management
    • Become a Member
  • Our Programme
    • CEO Roundtables
    • Our Cooperations
    • Lectures
    • Members’ talk
    • Webinars
    • Our Studies
  • Advocacy Programme
    • Mentoring Programme
    • Advocacy Seminars
    • Advocacy Webinars
    • Advocacy Network
    • Advocacy Voices
    • Rome Manifesto
  • Events
    • Past events
  • DE
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Imprint
© United Europe e. V.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
X