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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
NDDIE: a short overview about the development (by Heiko Dittmer) 20.10-20.25
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.
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
Proposals: Direct Democracy in Europe 10.00-10.30
 
Morning Session II
Heiko Dittmer and Thomas Rupp, Democracy International
History of the European Referendum Campaign 11.00-11.20
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
1) Basics of Direct Democracy with respect on the European Referendum Campaign, (by Bruno Kaufmann, president of IRI-Europe)  
2)How to lobby the national Parliament?! (by Michael Efler)  
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
1) Ideas for international cooperation and events and activities  
2) How to get individuals involved into the campaign?  
3) What are the first steps in your countries?  
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
Why we need a Europe of INDEPENDENT states? (Henrik Dahlsson, Secretary General, TEAM) 9:00-9:30
Why we need a European FEDERAL State? (Paul Carline, DD-activist, UK) 09:45-10:15
 
Morning Session II  
Europe of free citizens - Vision without limit (Erich Fritsch, Initiative für das Europa der Bürger) 10:30-12:30
  Plenum 13:30-14:00
 

Good atmosphere...

... in vivid sessions we discussed our ideas.
... we were invited by the Ambassador of Switzerland.
... in workshops we focused on the question: How to get active.
 
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