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South Moravia and the Conference on the Future of Europe

Oct 30, 2021

PURPLE member region South Moravia are busy with the ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). They plan a total of six citizen engagement workshops, the first of which took place late in October in Retz, Austria as a bilateral transnational exchange network event.

Speakers included Austrian EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn who was joined on the platform by Jiří Nantl, Deputy Governor of the South Moravia Region. The Mendel University of Brno, previously contributors to PURPLE General Assemblies in 2014 and 2018 were also represented in the three-hour event constituted as European Citizens' Dialogues around the theme of "My Wish for Europe's Future"

This is only the first step on the CoFoE journey for South Moravia colleagues, with five further workshops planned to take place in Brno itself on the themes of youth and the EU, culture and creative industries, agriculture, science and innovation, and the four fundamental freedoms of the EU - the ambitious plan being that all will have taken place by the end of January 2022.