Dear friends,

it gives us great pleasure to invite you to the next reunion of former JEF activists on Saturday, 13 July 2013 in Brussels.

The event is confirmed now with at least 40 pre-registered federalists wanting to join and an exciting set of speakers for our Saturday afternoon session.

Now you can formally sign up for the event at this form. More updates on the event will follow in subsequent weaks. You can find them on this website and our Facebook page.

A first draft programme can be found here.

At their assembly in Leuven in April 2012 the members of Friends of JEF elected their new bureau for the coming two years. The main task for the new bureau is to organise a gathering of former activists in the summer of 2013.

The new board is comprised of Jan Seifert (president JEF-Europe 2005-7) as president, Paolo Vacca (president JEF-Europe 1999-2001) and Till Burckhardt (former JEF-Europe treasurer) as Vice-Presidents as well as Silke Kaul (former JEF-Europe VP), Nathalie Lasner (former JEF-Europe VP) and Philippe Adriaennsens (president JEF-Europe 2009-11) and the JEF president and Secretary General.

The incoming board thanked Rainer Giesel and the outgoing board for their efforts in establishing the friends of JEF association in Berlin.

On 7th May 2009, the official founding act of Friends of JEF e.V. took place at Paulinenhof in Berlin. This followed the longstanding unofficial existence of the association with many members from across Europe.

Though registered in Germany, the association will be working with members from all JEF sections across Europe. The main objective of the association is to improve the networking of former JEF members as well as to setup a members’ database and will further function as a basis for today’s JEF network across Europe.

16 former JEF members took part in the foundation act, partly represented by delegating their voice to another person. The new board is led by Rainer B. GIESEL (Berlin) as president; the two vice-presidents are Nathalie LASNIER (Paris) and Joan Marc SIMON (Brussels/Barcelona). The board further includes Dries CALLENS (Brussels) as treasurer and Jan SEIFERT (Pinneberg). The JEF president Philippe Adriaenssens and secretary general (Ruben Loodts) are ex-officio members of the board.

Dear friends,

The last unofficial FoJ meeting took place on 4th July 2009 in and around Paris. It was kicked-off with a visit and tour at the Jean Monnet House near Paris. This will be followed by a dinner buffet. After that the group of around 30 former activists returned to Paris and joined the Parisian night life. On Sunday a Seine tour by boat was underatken.

Stay in touch with the Friends of JEF by joining our groups in the various social networks or follow us on Twitter. We will also try to keep this website as updated as possible.

Here is an overview of our various Friends of JEF groups:

facebook : Friends of JEF Page

XING : Friends of JEF Group

Plaxo : Friends of JEF Group

MeinVZ: Friends of JEF Group

LinkedIn : Friends of JEF Group

 

If there are social networks in which we are not present - and you think we should join them - please contact Jan Seifert or another member of the board.

Watch out for Kim's picture show of our meeting in Berlin!

Do you have other photos? Please send it to

JEF Europe's documents have been archived for a very long time at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. You can find them at the Historical Archives of the European Union - with the inventory list at wwwarc.eui.eu/pdfinv/inv-jef.pdf

During the mid-2000s Francois-Xavier Lafféach was a PhD student in history at the EUI and he wrote his PhD about the history of JEF. His contact details can be obtained upon request.

Inform us where you are and what you do! The easiest way is to register, please click here!