From 19th to 22nd September, we gathered in Desborough, United Kingdom, to celebrate an incredible milestone – 35 years of our network, and 35 years of our friendship. Back in 1989, a group of mayors dared to dream of a Europe without borders. This dream became the Charter of European Rural Communities – a symbol…
All roads did not lead us to Rome this July but to Nagycenk which welcomed delegates from almost all of our member communities for this year’s annual meeting. Both the youth and adults took part in interesting workshop sessions and activities prepared by the local organizing team to familiarise them with the host municipality. While the…
With fond memories fresh in our minds, let's reminisce about the vibrant youth meeting held in Cissé during the last weekend of April.
Young participants representing 18 Charter municipalities gathered in the cradle of our network for the first meeting this year. The event kicked off with an engaging French pub quiz on Thursday evening,…
Besides the new leader of our network, last weekend the representatives of our member communities elected the new Presidium as well. Together with Zsuzsanna as the President and Martine Garniere who was appointed to the permanent French seat by her municipality of Cissé, the new Presidium consists of three old Presidium members – Eucharist Camilleri, Tomáš Kuchar and Joachim Krüger, and…
The penultimate reFORM meeting took place in Tisno last weekend. Similar to earlier meetings, participants once again got the opportunity to take part in project activities that included debates, discussions and lectures on EU-related topics. Following the storytelling on Croatian Homeland War, and inauguration of ”Free Little EU Library” filled with books brought by participants,…
The past couple of days, a humanitarian disaster has been unfolding in Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put a temporary end to decades of peace in today’s Europe. I am very concerned about the situation, that is developing at a rapid pace. Although our network is apolitical, I condemn, in the strongest possible…
We have received sad news from our friends from Desborough. Stan Delbridge, former Chairman of the Charter activity in Desborough and a former Presidium member, passed away suddenly on Friday, 30 April 2021. Stan and his wife Jean took part in many Charter visits over the years, and they were also members of the Desborough…