Boas Festas

Boas Festas! Feliz Natal!

Para tod@s os calorosos desejos de Boas Festas!


Seasons'greetings!
Joyeux Noël!

Let's look forward at 2013!

Venha 2013: estaremos de braços abertos, atent@s à construção europeia!

Lisboa

Dear all
have a look at what dear Maria sent


http://jcabral.info/RG/TP%200%200%20Alfredo/Lisboa%20Velha/3v-TP00%20Lisboa.html

Nobel Prize 2012

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU). The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
In the inter-war years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made several awards to persons who were seeking reconciliation between Germany and France. Since 1945, that reconciliation has become a reality. The dreadful suffering in World War II demonstrated the need for a new Europe. Over a seventy-year period, Germany and France had fought three wars. Today war between Germany and France is unthinkable. This shows how, through well-aimed efforts and by building up mutual confidence, historical enemies can become close partners.
In the 1980s, Greece, Spain and Portugal joined the EU. The introduction of democracy was a condition for their membership. The fall of the Berlin Wall made EU membership possible for several Central and Eastern European countries, thereby opening a new era in European history. The division between East and West has to a large extent been brought to an end; democracy has been strengthened; many ethnically-based national conflicts have been settled.
The admission of Croatia as a member next year, the opening of membership negotiations with Montenegro, and the granting of candidate status to Serbia all strengthen the process of reconciliation in the Balkans. In the past decade, the possibility of EU membership for Turkey has also advanced democracy and human rights in that country.
The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to focus on what it sees as the EU's most important result: the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights. The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
The work of the EU represents "fraternity between nations", and amounts to a form of the "peace congresses" to which Alfred Nobel refers as criteria for the Peace Prize in his 1895 will.
Oslo, 12 October 2012

Summer is here!


Let's relax and enjoy the warm days ahead!

Summer is here! Big ships entered Tagus river.

Hope that will bring good news to us all!

Have a relaxing time of holidays

News from Lithuania

Another comment

Thank You so much.I miss all of You. Be safe and sound, and happy.
Sicerely Vida

messages from friends

Dear friends,

it's always a pleasure to have news from you. 
What great unforgettable days we had togetherduring our meetings in Lisbon... I will never forget all of you! 
And our great Margarida who created and was the very core of our team.

Thanks Maria... I visited Budapest only once... I didn't remember how charming it is!

With all my love,

Elena
(from Italy)

another year plus

Mais um ano se somou, mas a lembrança de Margarida Belard permanece!
Another year has gone by, but the rememberance of Margarida belard remains in all her friends!
12 06 2012

from Hungary with love

Please have a look at what dear friend Maria sentAvilglegszebbParlamentje (3)

Puzzle - Europe

Nada melhor que fazer 1 puzzle! Let's do it!

http <http://www.bpb.de/fsd/europapuzzle/puzzle_flash1.html>

iniciativas

A DGE, herdeira da DGIDC parece continuar a querer levar a mensagem europeia às escolas!
A iniciativa Connecting Schools, Bristish Council e IPJ merece a atenção de tod@s!

2012 - ano europeu

The European Commission has on September 6, 2010 proposed that 2012 be designated as the "European Year for Active Ageing".

The initiative aims to help create better job opportunities and working conditions for the growing numbers of older people in Europe, help them take an active role in society and encourage healthy ageing. It comes as Europe's policymakers grapple with a steadily ageing population and its impacts on public services and finances. The European Parliament and Council are expected to endorse the initiative by the beginning of next year.

The EU is in a process of significant population ageing. From 2012, the European working-age population will start to shrink, while the over-60 population will continue to increase by about two million people a year. The strongest pressure is expected to occur during the period 2015-35 when the so-called baby-boom generation will enter retirement. 

This presents challenges for sustainable public finances, in particular the financing of health care and pensions, and could weaken the solidarity between generations. But this view neglects the significant actual and potential contribution that older people — and the baby-boom cohorts in particular — can make to society.

The proposed European Year for Active Ageing is designed to serve as a framework for raising awareness, for identifying and disseminating good practice and, most importantly, for encouraging policymakers and stakeholders at all levels to promote active ageing. The aim is to invite these players to commit to specific action and goals in the run-up year 2011 so that tangible achievements can be presented during the European Year itself in 2012.

souce EU.

2012 - ano europeu

2012

Let 2012 bring us Joy and European Sucess!


All the best for those who believe in such a project!