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Upcoming Event: Animate Europe International Comics Competition 2017 – Award Ceremony

Animate Europe International Comics Competition 2017

Award ceremony, exhibition and reception

Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 18.30-21.30

Venue: Belgian Comic Strip Center, Rue des Sables, 1000 Brussels

The EU has surely experienced easier times – outside forces and
internal struggles are shaking the once strong and confident body to its very core. The European heartbeat has lost its rhythm. What can we do to “Re-Animate Europe”? That is the question the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom asked comic artists and graphic novelists in the third round of their international comic competition “Re-Animate Europe”. Find out what vision our seven finalists, selected out of more than 70 entries, have for a newly revived Europe”!

Have a look at the entries and meet the artists!

Programme

18.30 Registration

19.00 Award ceremony

20.00 Reception/ atmospheric music by Sofie la Digue & the Blue Skies

Kindly register for this event before 7 July 2017: https://tinyurl.com/reanimate2017 *

Welcome
Willem De Graeve
Director, Belgian Comic Strip Center

Remarks
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort
Member of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Gesine Meissner MEP,
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Maura McHugh     &       Gert Jan Pos
Comic Book Writer        Teacher, editor, photographer
Re-Animate Europe Jury Members

 Awards
Hans H. Stein
Director European and Transatlantic Dialogue, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

*Please note that you will be forwarded to a Google sheet. Should you wish to register with us directly, please send an email to register.brussels@fnst.org. Photographs will be taken at the event for use on the FNF website, social media, in the press, FNF marketing materials, and other publications. By entering this event, you consent to FNF photographing and using your image and likeness.

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Upcoming event: Reforming the EU: A view from Poland by Ryszard Petru

Ryszard Petru 2
Copyright: ALDE Party

Recent elections in the Netherlands and France have shown that the citizens’ desire of a strong European Union has not dissolved. Nevertheless, the EU stands at crossroads and has to re-define itself, especially when looking at the Member States to the East.

Poland’s relationship with the EU has deteriorated since the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party came into power. The first ever “rule-of-law procedure” undertaken by the European Commission against Poland, points to a bigger problem: the rise of illiberal democracy in some countries of the EU. In which direction is Poland heading and what are the chances to stop the democratic slide?

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