United in the Diversity of Europe

By November 2006 all the countries of the European Union must ratify the new European Constitution as the long term goal for the new and enlarged EU.

After the admission of the Eastern European states to the EU, there has been a need for several reforms and a strengthening of the cooperation to ensure that our European community is a proper and active player in both Europe and on the global scene.

To bring the diversity of the European community into focus, as well as the many similarities and common values shared by young people across Europe, a group of young Dutch,

www.25xEurope.com, chose to take turns at visiting all countries of the enlarged union during 2005 with the purpose, as Roanne van Voorst puts it, of "showing the real Europe and the new, young European way of living".

25xEurope will visit Copenhagen Business School and take part in this international seminar. MA of European Studies Kasper Søgaard will talk about the perspectives of the constitutional treaty and professor dr. phil. Michael Herslund will discuss what European Identity is all about. The seminar is open to everybody interested in the future of Europe, and the program of the seminar is as follows:

15:00 Welcome

15:10 Daily Life vs. Politics – 25xEurope from The Netherlands

15:40 An EU Constitution? – Kasper Søgaard, MA of European Studies (College of Europe, Brügge)

16:10 European Identity – dr. phil. Michael Herslund, professor, CopenhagenBusinessSchool.

16:40 Break

16:50 Panel discussion – all lecturers and stud.merc.int Anna Maria Ryl

17:25 Concluding remarks

17:30 Social gathering

In the panel discussion you are welcome ask questions on the subjects of the seminar; European Identity, the Constitutional Treaty, whether the EU can be considered a success if it is only a political cooperation and how you involve the citizens in this thing called "Europe". In addition to the lecturers, stud.merc.int Anna Maria Ryl from Poland will be part of the panel as she is currently writing her Master Thesis at CBS on "The Impact of MSN Messenger on the Identity, Culture and Mobility of Young People in Europe".