Conference Reader
| Contributions to the 3. NDDIE Conference 15.-17. November 2002, Bratislava |
| Friday Evening Session |
Saturday Morning Session I Morning Session II Afternoon Session |
Sunday Morning Session I Morning Session II |
| Friday | ||
| Evening Session | ||
| Welcome by Franz Isemann & Thomas Rupp | 20.00-20.10 | |
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NDDIE: a short overview about the development (by Heiko Dittmer) | 20.10-20.25 |
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Direct Democracy in the Slovak Republic (by Miloslav Hettes, agora, Bratislava) | 20.25-20.44 |
| The conversation marathon: 30 talks with 30 people | 20.45-21.45 | |
| 20 ultra short (2 minutes) presentations of the participating organisations | 21.45-22.30 | |
| Open end: Time for individual conversation | from 22.30 | |
| Saturday | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Unsolved questions... What do you expect? - Discussion | 11.50-12.30 | |
| 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) | |
| 4) How to build a cooperation network?! (by Heiko Dittmer & Sharon Bonici) | ||
| 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 | |
| 5) Referendum standards and criteria | ||
| Plenum | 17.00-18.00 | |
| Reception of H.E. Ambassador of Switzerland Rudolf Staub in cooperation with Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe, Amsterdam | from 19.00 | |
| Sunday | ||
| Morning Session I | ||
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Why we need a Europe of INDEPENDENT states? (Henrik Dahlsson, Secretary General, TEAM) | 9:00-9:30 |
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Why we need a European FEDERAL State? (Paul Carline, DD-activist, UK) | 09:45-10:15 |
| Morning Session II |
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Europe of free citizens - Vision without limit (Erich Fritsch, Initiative für das Europa der Bürger) | 10:30-12:30 |
| Plenum | 13:30-14:00 | |
