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ENoP member ETOPIA is organizing the conference "Agroécologie, le retour de l'agronomie. L'expérience est au Sud".

The event will take place in Louvain la Neuve, on the 10th of November and will see the participation of:

 Gaetan Vanloqueren, Agro-economist (UCL), adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
 Xavier Delwarte, FUGEA peasant union, a member of the European Coordination Via Campesina

Fondazzjoni IDEAT announces its forthcoming seminar "Mainstreaming Sustainable Development" into EU policies.

ENoP, SOLIDAR and their partners organise an experts round table at the European Parliament aiming to raise awareness and promote socio-economic partnership in the Western Balkans.

The ENoP member Green Economics Institute invites to its "Green Jobs Conference and Retreat", on 5th 6th 7th November 2010 on a farm in Glastonbury UK.
Bookings are now open for this exciting event which will feature speakers from Nigeria, the USA, Estonia and many other countries including the Netherlands and Denmark.

As  part of a two days visitors programme, high level representatives from IRI (International Republican Institute) and NDI (National Democratic Institute) attended an information briefing on ENoP. The presentation took place at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and was given by the ENoP coordinators, Andrea Ostheimer and Arjen Berkvens.

Arjen Berkvens, ENoP Network Coordinator and director of the Alfred Mozer Stichting, was one of the European experts in the panel discussion co-organised 12th of October by the Carnegie Europe and the Friederich Ebert Stiftung.

Hanns‐Seidel‐Stiftung organizes a panel discussion on the reform policies in Bulgaria. One year after the start of the new government, the Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, will take stock. In the discussion the Members of the European Parliament Markus Ferber and Manfred Weber, as well as the renowned journalist Jürgen Roth, will elaborate on Bulgaria's future challenges on the way towards a common European area of freedom, security and justice.

The conference will take place on 27 September 2010 at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union.

Four representatives from African partner organisations of ENoP members participate in the EU CSO Steering Group Consultation on the Joint Africa EU Strategy (JAES). The meeting takes place in Brussels on 21-22 September at the premises of the Belgium Development Agency CTB and strives to collect ideas from Civil Society Organizations from both continents.

The participants from the African partner organisations are: Robert MABALA, Conseil national des ONG pour le developpement - CNONGD/ DR Congo; Clara OSEI - BOATENG, Labour Research and Policy Institute/ Ghana TUC - Trade Union Congress/ Ghana; Mwenda Mithika, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance/ Kenya and  Richard SSEWAKIRYANGA, Uganda National NGO Forum/ Uganda.

Download here the Press Release of the Council of the EU, containing the declaration of the High Representative Lady Asthon, on behalf of the European Union, on the occasion of the International Day of Democracy, on 15th September 2010.

The European Network of Political Foundations held its Open Conference on ‘Innovative Tools to promote External Assistance - New media in Development Education & Democracy Support.’ Field experience and reflection on new methodologies were in the focus of the panels.