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In cooperation with

With the support of

International Seminar

FEDERALISM:

NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Winning the challenge of identity, democratic governance and interdependence

Milano, 9-11 March 2018

The international seminar “Federalism: national, European and global perspectives - Winning the

challenge of identity, democratic governance and interdependence” is the 2018 edition of the yearly

training event organised in cooperation between JEF and UEF; this year it will focus on federalism, in

its national, European and global dimensions, exploring the challenges facing and the opportunities

offered by modern federalism at all level of government in contemporary societies.

The seminar will gather ca 70 international participants and ca 30 participants from Italy. Participants

will come from different countries and different ages and background, mainly people interested in

European affairs and the perspective of federalism at all levels of governance.

Through a combination of conferences, moderated panel debates and interactive working groups,

the seminar will cover a wide range of aspects of federalism, from its theoretical foundations to its

actual application in response to the most pressing issues in our societies at the national, European

and global levels. Speakers will come from the world of academia, civil society, administration and

politics from different countries.

The Federalist

Federalist

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PROGRAMME

Friday 9 March 2018

Venue: Spazio Cairoli, Vicolo S. Giovanni Sul Muro, 5, 20121 Milano

13:00

13:30

13.45

Registration of participants

Opening of the seminar

“FEDERALISM – SETTING THE SCENE”

Introduction to the subjects of the seminar by

PAOLO VACCA, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists

SESSION I – FUNDAMENTALS OF FEDERALISM

14.00 “FUNDAMENTALS OF FEDERALISM”

Introduction by:

LUISA TRUMELLINI, Secretary General of the Movimento Federalista Europeo

followed by debate with participants

15.00

“THE FEDERAL STATE: THEORY AND COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT EXISTING FEDERAL

STATES”

Introduction by

GIUSEPPE MARTINICO, Associate Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola

Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa and Fellow at the Centro Studi sul Federalimo of Turin

followed by debate with participants

16.00

16.15

17.15

Coffee break

“NATIONALISM, POPULISM, GLOBALISATION, FEDERALISM: STRUGGLING FOR IDENTITY

AND SOVEREIGNITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES”

Introduction by:

ALBERTO MARTINELLI, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at the

University of Milan

followed by debate with participants

“IS FEDERALISM THE RIGHT MODEL FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION?”

Introductions by:

ROBERTO CASTALDI, Director of CESUE (Centre for European and Global Governance)

and Associate Professor of Political Theory at eCampus University

FEDERICO OTTAVIO REHO, Research Officer ay the Wilfried Martens Centre for

European Studies, Brussels

followed by debate with participants

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18.30

WORKING GROUPS

Participants break in working groups to discuss the topics of the conferences

19:30

20:30

Closing

Dinner

Saturday 10 March 2018

Venue: Venue: Spazio Cairoli, Vicolo S. Giovanni Sul Muro, 5, 20121 Milano

SESSION II – FEDERALISM AT NATIONAL LEVEL

“DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN MODERN FEDERAL AND REGIONAL STATES – THE

CASE OF SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES, GERMANY AND SPAIN”

9.00

Introductions by:

GILBERT CASASUS, Professor of European Studies and Director of the Centre for

European Studies of the University of Fribourg (on Switzerland)

PAOLO VACCA, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists (on the

United States)

followed by debate with participants

11.00

11.15

Coffee Break

Introductions by

OTTO SCHMUCK, Vice President of the Union of European Federalists (on Germany)

JOAN BOTELLA, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the

Autonomous University of Barcelona and President of Federalistes d'Esquerres (on

Spain)

followed by debate with participants

13.00

14.00

Lunch break at Spazio Cairoli

WORKING GROUPS

Participants break in working groups to discuss the topics of the morning conferences

15.30 SESSION III – FEDERALISM AT EUROPEAN LEVEL

“WHAT FEDERAL MODEL FOR EUROPE? THE INSTITUTIONS”

Introductions by:

GIULIA ROSSOLILLO, Professor of EU Law at the University of Pavia

ELMAR BROK, Member of the European Parliament, President of the Union of

European Federalists

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SIETSE WIJNSMA, Policy Advisor on Constitutional Affairs to the ALDE Group in the

European Parliament

followed by debate with participants

17.00 “WHAT FEDERAL MODEL FOR EUROPE? ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES”

Introductions by:

FABIO MASINI, Professor of Theories and History of International Economic Relations

at the University of Roma Tre

CHRISTOPHER GLÜCK, President of the Young European Federalists

BRANDO BENIFEI, Member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the

European Movement International

followed by debate with participants

18.30

WORKING GROUPS

Participants break in working groups to discuss the topics of the conferences

19.30

20:30

End of session

Dinner

Sunday 11 March 2018

Venue: Spazio Cairoli, Vicolo S. Giovanni Sul Muro, 5, 20121 Milano

9.30

Session IV – FEDERALISM AT GLOBAL LEVEL

“PERSPECTIVES FOR FEDERALISM AT GLOBAL LEVEL: CHALLENGES, ALTERNATIVES,

OPPORTUNITIES”

Introductions:

PILAR LLORENTE RUIZ DE AZUA, Federal Committee of the Union of European

Federalists

SUSANNA CAFARO, Professor of European Law at Università del Salento, Author of

the blog “Supranational Democracy”

ANDREAS BUMMEL, Director of Democracy Without Borders and of the international

campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

followed by debate with participants

11.00 WORKING GROUPS

Participants break in working groups to discuss the topics of the conferences

12:00

12:30

Evaluation

Closing

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READING LIST

SESSION I – INTRODUCTIONS TO FEDERALISM

Federalist Papers:

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 30. Concerning the General Power of Taxation, New York,

28 December 1787

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 24. The powers necessary of the common defense further

considered and Federalist No. 25. The same subject continued: the powers necessary of the

common defense further considered, New York, December 1787

Analysis and academia:

Michael Burgess, Federalism, the state and the European idea, in Federalism and Europe Union: the building of Europe, Routledge London and New York

Brun-Otto Bryde, Le peuple européen and the European people, in Le référendum européen, Andréas Aueret Jean-François Flauss eds., Bruxelles, Bruylant, 1997

Jha Prakash Chandra, Theory of Fiscal Federalism: an analysis, MPRA Paper No. 41769, Amity University, 2012

Lucio Levi, Guido Montani and Francesco Rossolillo, Three introductions to federalism, The Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies, 1989

A. Gamper, A “Global Theory of Federalism”: The Nature and Challenges of a Federal State, German Law Journal, Vol 6, No 10, pp. 1297-1318, 2009

Sergio Pistone, Raison d’Etat, peace and the federalist strategy, The Federalist, Year XLVIII, 2001, Number 1, p. 10

Fritz W. Scharpf, Reflections on Multilevel Legitimacy, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Working Paper 07/3, Cologne, July 2007

History of the Union of European Federalists:

Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, The Ventotene Manifesto, Rome, 1944 Union of European Federalists, 70 years of campaigns for a united and federal Europe, 2016

SESSION II – FEDERALISM AT NATIONAL LEVEL

Federal models

Analysis and academia:

Keith G. Banting, The three federalisms: social policy and intergovernmental decision-making, in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad eds., Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, 2009

Michael Burgess, Comparative federalism. Theory and Practice, ed. Routledge, 2006

Sub-national federalism

Institutional resources: Committee of the Regions, Charter for Multi-Level Governance (MLG) in Europe, 20 February

2014

Analysis and academia: Hansjörg Blöchliger and Junghun Kim eds., Fiscal Federalism 2016. Making decentralisation

work, OECD Publishing, 20 June 2016

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Michael Keating, Europe as a multilevel federation, in Journal of European Public Policy,

24 :4, pp. 615-632, 8 March 2017

SESSION III – FEDERALISM AT EUROPEAN LEVEL

The institutions

Institutional resources: Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 15. The insufficiency of the present confederation to

preserve the union, New York, 28 December 1787

Joschka Fischer, “From confederacy to Federation – Thoughts on the finality of European

integration”, speech at the Humboldt University in Berlin, 12 May 2000

UEF Resolutions UEF Federalist Manifestohttp://www.federalists.eu/uef/news/resolution-regarding-

democratic-legitimacy-in-emu-governance/, Brussels, 13 December 2014

JEF Resolutions Calling for a European Constituent Assembly, Malta, November 2017

Analysis and academia:

David Garcia and Paolo Vacca, Improving the efficiency, democracy and legitimacy of the EU institutions within the current Treaties: possibilities and limits (20 proposals), Policy Brief No. 2, Union of European Federalists, 2016

Sergio Fabbrini, Which Democracy for a Union of States? A comparative perspective of the

European Union, Global Policy, Volume 8, Supplement 6, October 2017

Jean Marc Ferry, La Communauté européenne, entre Etat fédéral et Fédération d’Etats, Swiss

political science review 4(4): 11-31, 1998

Nicolas Levrat, L’Union européenne: une fédération internationale, in The states and moods

of federalism: governance, identity and methodology, Montréal, 2005

Giuseppe Martinico, The Federal Language and the European Integration Process: The

European Communities viewed from the US, Politique européenne 2016/3 (N° 53), p. 38-59.

Andrew Moravscik, In defence of the “Democratic Deficit: Reassessing legitimacy in the

European union, in JCMS 2002, Vol. 40, No 4, pp. 603-624

Yves Mény, De la démocratie en Europe: Old concepts and new challenges, in JCMS 2002 Vol.

41, No. 1, pp. 1-13

Federico Ottavio Reho, For a new Europeanism, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, June 2017

Federico Ottavio Reho and Dalibor Rohac, The Case for a Federal Europe, American Enterprise Institute, May 2017

Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse, Who is Afraid of a European Federation? How to Constitutionalise a Multi-Level Governance System, ed. The Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, 2000

Economic and social policies

Institutional resources: European Commission, Communication on Further Steps towards Completing Europe's

Economic and Monetary Union: A Roadmap COM(2017) 821 final, Brussels, 6 December 2017

European Commission, Communication on A European Minister of Economy and Finance,

Brussels, 6 December 2017

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European Commission, Proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of the

European Monetary Fund, Brussels, 6 December 2017, and Annex

Analysis and academia:

David Garcia and Paolo Vacca, A budgetary capacity for the Eurozone: a federalist view, Policy Brief No. 3, Union of European Federalists, 2016

Federico Ottavio Reho, The past and future of European federalism: Spinelli vs. Hayek, European Policy Information Center, April 2017

Domenico Moro, For a federal European unemployed insurance scheme, Reflection paper, Union of European Federalists, March 2016

Vivien A. Schmidt, Re-Envisioning the European Union: identity, democracy, economy JCMS 2009, vol. 47, annual review pp. 17-42

Luisa Trumellini, “A pre-constitutional pact for federal political union of the Eurozone”, in The Federalist, Year LV, 2013, Single Issue, p. 136

UEF Resolutions Resolution regarding democratic legitimacy in EMU governance, Madrid, 18 June 2017

Resolution on Fiscal Union, Madrid, 18 June 2017

Resolution on a Genuine Monetary Union in a Reformed EU, Venice, 29 November 2015

JEF Resolutions Resolution on the institutional design and governance of the Eurozone, Malta, 5 December

2017

SESSION IV – FEDERALISM AT GLOBAL LEVEL

Analysis and academia:

Susanna Cafaro, Blogging about Supranational Democracy, Susanna Cafaro, 2017 Claudia Kissling, A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly: basic ideas & current points of

discussion, in Minerva No. 34, pp. 31-33, May 2009 Myron W. Kronisch, Reform of the United Nations Security Council & General Assembly – A

step to federation, in Minerva No. 39, pp. 17-18, November 2011 Guido Montani and Daniele Archibugi, European Democracy and Cosmopolitan Democracy,

The Altiero Spinelli Institute, 2011

UEF Resolutions Resolution on a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), Cologne, 5 November 2016

World Federalist Movement Resolutions Resolution on global democracy and United Nations reform, federalism at different levels,

XXVI congress, November 2012

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SPEAKERS

Friday 9 March 2018

Paolo VACCA Paolo Vacca is the Secretary-General of the Union of European Federalists since 2014. He joined the European Federalist Movement (MFE) in Milano (I) in 1990. Since then Paolo has been active at all levels of the federalist movement, including being President of the Young European Federalists (JEF-Europe) in 1999-2001 and member of the UEF Bureau ever since. Professionally Paolo works as Director Legal Affairs Europe for a global chemical multinational with European headquarters in The Netherlands.

Luisa TRUMELLINI Luisa Trumellini is Secretary General of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (UEF Italy) and rapporteur of the Political commission on economic affairs of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists. She was deputy director of the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies from 1988 to 2001. She is editor of The European Letter and assistant editor of The Federalist.

Giuseppe MARTINICO Giuseppe Martinico is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. Previously he worked as a Lecturer in Constitutional law in the same institution. His research interests cover both comparative and European constitutional law, fields in which he published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals in three languages (English, Italian and Spanish). He is also Researcher at the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Turin and Co-Editor of Perspectives on Federalism.

Alberto MARTINELLI Alberto Martinelli is professor Emeritus of political science and sociology at the University of Milan. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California in Berkeley. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences from 1987 to 1999 and chaired the University Committee for International Scientific Cooperation. He serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and writes for Il Corriere della Sera and other newspapers and magazines).

Roberto CASTALDI Roberto Castaldi is Director of CESUE (Centre for European and Global Governance) and Associate Professor of Political Theory at eCampus University. He is president of the Tuscan regional section of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (UEF Italy). He collaborates with the Center for Federalist Studies foundation as editor of the “Bibliographical Bulletin on Federalism” and of the magazine “Perspectives on Federalism”. His research interests range from European integration and federalism to global governance and theory of international relations.

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Federico Ottavio REHO Before joining the Wilfried Martens Centre as Research Officer in April 2015, Federico Ottavio Reho worked in the EU Institutions and Fora Division of the European Central Bank. He earned a Master of Public Administration in European Economic Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master of Public Policy with specialization in EU Economic Governance from the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and a Master in European Studies at the Luiss School of Government in Rome (2010-11).

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Gilbert CASASUS Gilbert Casasus is Professor of European Studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) since 2008 and Director of the Centre of European studies of the University of Fribourg since 2015. His research interests range from the Franco-German relations to the history of European integration and include the democratic and legitimacy deficit of the European Union.

Otto SCHMUCK Otto Schmuck is Vice President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) and member of the Presidium of Europa-Union Deutschland. He is a former member of the Institut für Europäische Politik e.V. (IEP) team and is member of its Academic Advisory Board. He headed the European Department of the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Representation in Berlin and is the spokesman, of the "Future of Europe" association (German, born in 1953).

Paul ANDERSON Paul Anderson is Project Lead of the ’50 Shades of Federalism’ project. He is a PhD candidate at Canterbury Christ Church University and holds master degrees from the University of Glasgow and the University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His research interests lie broadly in the study of nationalism, secessionism and territorial politics. Paul’s doctoral research explores the relationship between territorial autonomy and secessionism in plurinational states, particularly Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia.

Joan BOTELLA Joan Botella Corral is the dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and President of Federalistes d'Esquerres. He contributes to El Pais. His research focuses on Spanish politics, comparative politics, political parties, local governments, electoral studies and media.

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Giulia ROSSOLILLO Giulia Rossolillo is full professor of European Union Law at the University of Pavia. Since 2008 she is the editor of “Il Federalista / The Federalist” magazine.

Elmar BROK Elmar Brok is Member of the European Parliament from the European People’s Party and currently President of the Union of European Federalists. He is the longest serving member of the European Parliament, being a member uninterruptedly since 1980. He was been one of the representatives of the European Parliament in several intergovernmental conferences for past EU Treaties and in the Convention that prepared the draft EU Constitutional Treaty.

Sietse WIJNSMA Sietse Wijnsma is Policy advisor on Constitutional affairs and internal market at the ALDE group of the European Parliament. He was political adviser of MEP Andrew Duff between 2008 and 2014 and European Parliament candidate for the Dutch party D66 in 2009.

Fabio MASINI Fabio Masini is Professor of Theories and History of International Economic Relations at the University of Roma Tre. He holds a PhD in the History of Economic Thought. His main fields of research are European and international economic and monetary integration; economic policy and public intervention in the economy; history of economic thought; the economics and policy of local development.

Brando BENIFEI Brando Benifei has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, when he was the youngest elected candidate of the Partito Democratico. He has a long story of activism for a federal Europe, mainly within the Young European Federalists and the Union of European Federalists. He is currently a member of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Christopher GLÜCK Christopher Glück is President of the Young European Federalists (JEF) and policy advisor on economic and financial affairs at the European Parliament. Originally from southern Germany, Christopher Glück’s JEF life started when he re-founded JEF Stuttgart in 2008. He has been active in JEF ever since.

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Susanna CAFARO Susanna Cafaro is full professor of European law at Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy) and a founding member of the think tank "The Group of Lecce". She writes about European and international law topics with a special interest in current affairs at the crossroads of law, economics and politics. She is a fervent supporter of multilateralism and of supranational democracy.

Andras BUMMEL Andras Bummel is co-founder and director of Democracy Without Borders (formerly Committee for a Democratic U.N.) and coordinator of the international Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. He is a member of the Council of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy in New York.

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

SURNAME NAME MEMBERSHIP

1 AGUSH TALJAT JEF MACEDONIA

2 ALBERTI ALESSIO UEF ITALY

3 ALDECOA LUZARRAGA FRANCISCO UEF SPAIN

4 ALVAREZ DE LA CRUZ NORA JEF SPAIN

5 ANSELMI GIORGIO UEF ITALY

6 APULEO LUANA JEF ITALY

7 ARRU MATTEO UEF ITALY

8 BALESTIERI NICOLA JEF ITALY

9 BERNACCHIA ANITA NATASCIA JEF ROMANIA

10 RAPHAEL BEZ UEF SWITZERLAND

11 CASTALDI ROBERTO UEF ITALY

12 CLARK STUART

13 COLOVA ZLATIMIRA UEF BULGARIA

14 CUTAJAR MARIA JEF MALTA

15 DE VENUTO GAETANO UEF ITALY

16 DEJAEGHER SARAH JOHANNA UEF BELGIUM

17 DEVESA DOMENEC UEF SPAIN

18 PAMELA DZHENOVA UEF BULGARIA

19 ESZTER NAGY UEF HUNGARY

20 FANDIÑO AROA UEF SPAIN

21 FIEVET BENJAMIN UEF FRANCE

22 FONTANA OLIMPIA CSF

23 FORTE FRANCESCO IURY JEF ITALY

24 ANTONI FOURNIER UEF FRANCE

25 FRANCO SPOLTORE UEF ITALY

26 FRANKSON ADAM UEF GROUPE EUROPE

27 GALLO ALESSANDRO UEF BELGIUM

28 GARCIA DOVAL DIEGO UEF GROUPE EUROPE

29 GAROFALO GIULIA UEF ITALY

30 GERGANA BLAZHEVA JEF BULGRIA

31 GIRAUD EMMA JEF FRANCE

32 GLUECK CHRISTOPHER JEF PRESIDENT

33 GOGOU DAPHNE UEF GROUPE EUROPE

34 GRADSTEIN STEPHANIE JEF GERMANY

35 GRIGOLO CHIARA JEF ITALY

36 HESSE SIPAN UEF FRANCE

37 HEUCK SUSANNE UEF SWITZERLAND

38 HOFFMANN DUSTIN

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SURNAME NAME MEMBERSHIP

39 HOLE CLIVE UEF FRANCE

40 HYRKKÖ HEINI JEF FINLAND

41 ISUFAJ ALBAN UEF GERMANY

42 JACQUES DUCRY UEF SWITZERLAND

43 JOHANNA KAMIN UEF SWITZERLAND

44 JOSÉ-LUIS SALAZAR-MÁÑEZ UEF SPAIN

45 LAGANA' MARCO UEF ITALY

46 LAJTHA JULIUS UEF AUSTRIA

47 LAURA SADIS UEF SWITZERLAND

48 RÉMI LAUWERIER UEF FRANCE

49 LEON STRAUB UEF SWITZERLAND

50 LICHENBERGER EVA UEF AUSTRIA

51 LLORENTE RUIZ DE AZUA PILAR UEF SPAIN

52 MACIA MUNOZ GLORIA UEF SPAIN

53 MADJGUÈNE GAYE UEF FRANCE

54 MARCHETTI LUCIA JEF ITALY

55 MATILDE CERON JEF ITALY

56 MENNERAT FRANCOIS UEF FRANCE

57 MEYER DAVID UEF FRANCE

58 MICALLEF SHAUN JEF MALTA

59 MOHAMMAD QAIS HATEFI JEF GERMANY

60 MOSCHETTI RICCARDO UEF ITALY

61 MOUFTOGLOU LIA BASILIA

62 MUSATI ADRIANA UEF ITALY

63 NARDI TIAGO JEF ITALY

64 NEZIRI LAVDIM UEF AUSTRIA

65 OCTAVIAN-CONSTANTINA OANA UEF GERMANY

66 ODENDAHL TIM JEF GERMANY

67 PADOA-SCHIOPPA ANTONIO UEF ITALY

68 PALERMO CARLO MARIA UEF ITALY

69 PELIZZARO MARTA JEF ITALY

70 PISTONE SERGIO UEF ITALY

71 POPOVA BLAGA VALENTINOVA

72 PROVERA JACOPO JEF ITALY

73 PRUVOST CLAUDINE UEF FRANCE

74 PULIS ALESSIA PULIS JEF MALTA

75 PYYKKO IINA

76 QUIDELLO ELENA UEF ITALY

77 REGIDOR ARENALES MARIO MARCELO

78 LUCILE ROSSAT UEF FRANCE

79 SAMUEL OANA JEF GERMANY

80 SANTANA AGUILERA ADA

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SURNAME NAME MEMBERSHIP

81 SCOTT ANDREW JEF UNITED KINGDOM

82 SEELAND GLENN JEF GERMANY

83 SIDONIO ANGELO JEF ITALY

84 SILVA CLAUDIA UEF PORTUGAL

85 STAMBOLLIU ZOEY JEF GREECE

86 STRATU STRELET DOINA UEF SPAIN

87 SUSTA ROBERTO UEF ITALY

88 TAGLIANI ELENA UEF ITALY

89 TEDESCO MARGAUX JEF FRANCE

90 TINTI PAOLO JEF POLAND

91 LUISA TRUMELLINI UEF ITALY

92 TSELEPI MARIA EFTYCHIA JEF GREECE

93 VACCA PAOLO UEF SECRETARY-GENERAL

94 VALLEFUOCO RAFFAELE UEF ITALY

95 VALLONE JONAS UEF ITALY

96 ROBERT VERSCHOOTEN UEF BELGIUM

97 VIHINEN DANICA JEF BELGIUM

98 VILLASECA LAGUNA EUGENIO FRANCISCO UEF SPAIN

99 VIOLI FRANCESCO UEF ITALY

100 WEBER MAX JEF GERMANY

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HOTEL

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

MAP & VENUES

1. HOTEL

Participants having requested accommodation, will be hosted at UNA HOTEL CENTURY, 350 m from

the Central Station. Should you need one or more extra-night accommodation, don’t hesitate to

reach the hotel by telephone +3902675041 or email una.century@unahotels.it.

If you arrive early on 9 March, you can go to the hotel and do the check-in. Your room might already

be ready.

2. SEMINAR

The seminar will be held in Spazio Cairoli (Vicolo S.Giovanni Sul Muro,5) between the Duomo and

the Castle (“Castello Sforzesco”).

Metro Station: M2 (green line) Stop “Cadorna” from Central Station to Assago Milanofiori Forum or

M1 (red line) Stop “Cairoli”.

PLEASE arrive at the venue at 1pm on Friday to register prior to the start of the seminar at 1.30 pm

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3. RESTAURANTS

FRIDAY DINNER

Friday dinner will be at « Pizzeria Peperino » (piazza XXV Aprile), starting from 20.30. From Spazio

Cairoli, you can take the M2 (2 stops) till Moscova (from Cadorna –direction Gessate).

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SATURDAY DINNER

Saturday dinner will be at the Lombardy Region Palace (Piazza Città di Lombardia), 550 meters from

UNA Hotel Century. Dinner will start at 20.30.

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PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS

Participants who have requested accommodation and support for travel costs:

1. Accepted participants requesting accommodation and support for travel costs will be

required to pay a participation contribution of 80 euros (40 Euros for participants younger than 30

y.o) by Monday 22 January 2018 to confirm their participation. Passed the deadline, all

unconfirmed participants will be replaced by other applicants.

2. The participation fee entitles to:

Seminar: participation in all sessions of the seminar;

Accommodation: Friday and Saturday night in hotel in double rooms. Single Rooms (2 nights)

are available at a supplement of 80 euro to be paid by the participant at the time of payment

of the participation fee.

Meals: Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner; Sunday breakfast; all coffee

breaks.

Travel reimbursements: 50% of the travel costs, up to a maximum payment of 150 euros,

provided (1) low costs airlines are used whenever available and cheaper, and (2) tickets are

bought not later than 7 days from reception by their participants of their notification of

acceptance. Participants are required to provide their original travel tickets. Reimbursements

will be made in cash at the event.

Participants who have NOT requested accommodation and support for travel costs:

1. Upon notification from the UEF, accepted participants NOT requesting accommodation and

support for travel costs but who wish to join the common meals (dinner on Friday, lunch on

Saturday and dinner on Saturday) will be required to pay a participation fee of 40 euros to cover

the cost of all meals.

2. Accepted participants NOT requesting accommodation and support for travel costs and who

do NOT join the common meals are not required to pay any participation fee. They should anyhow

apply for the seminar as specified above.

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NOTES

UEF CONTACTS

In case of emergency you can reach us by phone on +32 2 508 30 30

Paolo VACCA

Secretary-General David GARCIA

Managing Director

Francesco GUERZONI

Policy & Advocacy Officer Adeline BRION Project Officer

Valentina PRESA

Project Officer Laura MELLADO

Communication Officer

UEF European Secretariat Square de Meeûs 25 | B - 1000 Brussels

secretariat@federalists.eu

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