{"id":13669,"date":"2016-03-07T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progressives-zentrum.org\/en\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:10:19","slug":"europeantownhall-meeting-in-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.progressives-zentrum.org\/en\/europeantownhall-meeting-in-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"#EuropeanTownHall Meeting in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After its successful start in Athens, the \u201cDialogue on Europe\u201d made its second stop in Lisbon, where the second #EuropeanTownHall Meeting took place on 7 March 2016.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first bilateral Town Hall Meeting of our \u201cDialogue on Europe\u201d which took place in Athens on 7 December 2015 was now followed up by a Town Hall Meeting in Lisbon on 7 March 2016. Again, we invited young representatives from Portugal\u2019s civil society, NGOs, startups, the media, and think tanks to gather and discuss the most urgent challenges the country has to face presently, such as the reduction of youth unemployment or the demographic changes the European Union is undergoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key topics discussed were \u201cPopulism\u201d, \u201cSocial Cohesion\u201d, \u201cMigration and Integration\u201d as well as \u201cSustainable Growth\u201d. Together with the participants, we analysed the public debate on these topics in Portugal and tried to find approaches to a solution in a context of European cooperation. In the course of the event, these suggestions were discussed with the German Minister of State for Europe, Michael Roth. We hosted this event in cooperation with our national partner organisation, the Portuguese Institute of Public Policy (IPP).<\/a> The Portuguese-German Town Hall Meeting took place in the F\u00e1brica Bra\u00e7o de Prata <\/a>and was moderated by the IPP vice president, Marina Costo Lobo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luisa Coelho, editor of two books about Portuguese-German relations, opened the event after the welcoming remarks by the chairman of the IPP, Carlos Farinha Rodrigues. The Portuguese Secretary of State of European Affairs, Margarida Marques, concluded the Town Hall Meeting together with her German counterpart Michael Roth.
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Our project managers Alban Genty and Benedikt Weing\u00e4rtner already paid a visit to Lisbon in February. They met, among others, representatives of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, of the startup incubator beta-i, of the German Embassy and of the local office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation to develop and deepen personal contacts and get a first-hand impression of the local public debate on the issues that will be discussed at the Town Hall Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philipp S\u00e4lhoff<\/a><\/h4>
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Philipp S\u00e4lhoff worked for Das Progressive Zentrum from January 2013 to March 2018, first as co-leader of the #bewegungjetzt campaign for the 2013 federal election, later as head of the mobilization campaign iChange Europe for the 2014 European election.<\/div><\/div>
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Alban Genty<\/a><\/h4>
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Alban was Project Manager at Das Progressive Zentrum since May 2015. He is also active in the field of political education as co-founder and co-chair of the French organization Vote&Vous. Studied politics with a focus on European studies at Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, Sciences Po Lille and most recently at the College of Europe in Warsaw. <\/div><\/div>
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Benedikt Weing\u00e4rtner<\/a><\/h4>
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