Past events

On Thursday 15th of September, Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría held a news conference on the state of education and necessary reforms in OECD and EU countries. At this conference OECD’s Education at a Glance 2016 report was presented. This report is the leading international compendium of comparable national statist...
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The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) organized on Monday 12th September a press briefing on : Turkey's failed coup: implications for journalists, unionists and human rights activists with Sanar Yurdatapan, IFEX Turkey (Initiative for Freedom of Expression-Turkey) moderated by Mehmet Koksal, EFJ-IFJ & journalist Şanar Yurdatapan is a composer and human r...
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His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovakia in Brussels, Mr. Stanislav Vallo and the President of CIDIC Baron Ernest de Laminne de Bex organize a media briefing on Wednesday 7th of September to present the Economic and Academic Diplomatic Days (DEA) which will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia on the 12th and 13th of October 2016. The DEA is organized in the country that chairs the Council of the Euro...
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On Tuesday, 6th September, the European Foundation for Democracy organised a conference on Turkey's failed coup: domestic and foreign policy implications with Dr. Demir Murat Seyrek. Mr Murat Seyrek is a Senior Policy Advisor at the European Foundation for Democracy. He began his career as the Brussels representative of the ARI Movement, a leading Turkish NGO, working on Turkey-EU relations and...
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On the 27th of July, Jonathan and Nancy Kapstein invited their friends and colleagues for a farewell drinks. On behalf of the Press Club Board, Ernest Sagaga warmly thanked Jonathan Kapstein for all his dedication for all these years and observed that he had been one of the first journlist to support the Press club soon after its creation.    
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Since 1st of July, Slovakia held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time, succeeding the Netherlands. The programme and priorities of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU has been approved by the Slovak Government in June 2016, but five themes have already been put forward as priorities for this Presidency: economic growth, the Digital Single Market, the cr...
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On the 5th of July, EU-Asia Center organized a Panel discussion on "China - the Economy and the Environment" One of the most important questions of our time concerns the future economic prospects of China. Every day the media has reports about Chinese debt, the stock market, the reform of state owned enterprises, the banking system, the renminbi exchange rate, excess capacity, etc. The state...
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