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Agenda

Fifth European Social Week
January 23 till 25, 2014, in Brussels.

Previous Social Weeks

Bratislava, 2003: Perspectives -- The commitment of Christians and Christian Social Organisations in the construction of the European Union

Bad Honnef, 2000: Towards a European civil society -- Christian social visions

Brussels, 1997: Christian-Social Thought and Europe

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29 Apr 2013| Bringing down barriers to working in another EU country

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Commentaries on Europe

The Resistible Fall of Europe: An Interview with George Soros

15 May 2013 | The politics of the eurozone countries is European politics, and European politics is not serving these countries well. In an extended interview, George Soros explains why – and what should be done about it.

Europe’s Lost-and-Found Decade

19 Mar 2013 | It is unlikely that Europe’s economy will follow the pattern of emerging-market crises and rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes. But, for better or worse, the fact that the most severe political and social turbulence is yet to come at least means that Europe will be unable to afford the dithering that produced Japan’s lost decade.

The Euro’s House Divided

1 Mar 2013 | The European Commission’s latest economic outlook paints a disheartening picture of a deep and persistent economic and social divide within the eurozone. Such a gulf within a monetary union cannot be sustained for very long.

About the European Social Weeks

The European Social Week brings together representatives of the organizations of the workers and of the employers, as well as representatives of social organizations, of consumer organizations, human rights organizations, organizations working in social housing, in education, in care, in development cooperation; of national Social Weeks Network organizations; all kinds of Christian social organizations, both catholic, protestant or otherwise Christian; and from East and West Europe, from all of Europe; all sharing the task of securing the presence and the actualization of Christian Social Thinking, its leading values and principles, and thus help shape the European society that we want.

Board

President: Jaap SMIT Nederland j.smit@cnv.nl

Secretary : Udo HU ETT Deutschland uhuett@t-online.de

Treasurer: Bruno MACHIELS België bruno.machiels@scarlet.be

Webmaster: Hans GROEN Nederland h.groen@socires.nl

General secretariat

Udo HUETT

KSI Katholish-soziales institute

Selhofer Str. 11
D - 53604 Bad Honnef
Tel.: +49 - 22 24 - 955 - 405
Fax: +49 - 22 24 - 955 – 100

Mail: Huett@ksi.de

Web: www.esw-sse.org

IBAN: BE17 3630 8598 8621

BIC: BBRUBEBB

Members of the committee

Patrick DEVELTERE President ACW – België patrick.develtere@acw.be

Bernard CHENEVEZ Semaines sociales de France bernard@chenevez.fr

Patrick DE BUCQUOIS Altercité – Belgique caritas.fr@skynet.be

Roswitha GOTTBEHÜT General secretary EZA - Deutschland gottbehuet@eza.org

Jean HALLET Honorary president - Belgique jjhallet@skynet.be

Herbert METZGER AZK – Deutschland herbert.metzger@netcologne.de

Leo PAUWELS Honorary president EZA - België pauwels.leo@skynet.be

Bartho PRONK President EZA – Nederland bartho@barthopronk.com

Sofie PUT ACW – België sofie.put@acw.be

Cor VAN BEUNINGEN Socires – Nederland c.vanbeuningen@socires.nl

Wim VANDEWIELE ACW – België wim.vandewiele@acw.be

Robert WEBER r.weber@lcgb.lu

Thomasz ROSNIAK Polish social week – Poland t.rozniak@eds-fundacia.pl

Ihor SHABAN Social week Ukraine ecumenism@ukr.net

Janina SVEDIENE Social week Lithuania ldforg@ldf.lt

5th EUROPEAN SOCIAL WEEK

BRUSSELS 18-20 APRIL 2013

Organizer ACW – TER MUNK

Address Haachtsesteenweg 579, B – 1030 BRUSSEL, België

Mailing address Postbus 20, B – 1031 BRUSSEL, België

Contact person Linda DEMEESTER Linda.demeester@acw.be

Web : www.esw5.eu

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