Skopje, 24 April 2009


The EU Mission announces one-month activities
for celebration of Europe Day 2009

On Friday, 24 April, the EU Mission in Skopje organised a press conference at the EU InfoCentre where Ambassador Erwan Fouéré presented the activities foreseen to mark this year's Europe Day (9 May).

“This year we are organising many events across the country for celebrating Europe Day with the aim of bringing the European integration process closer to the citizens”, said Ambassador Erwan FOUÉRÉ.

Besides the traditional Europe Day Multi-media happening on 9 May, which, this year, will take place in Tetovo, several traditional manifestations will also take place in April and May: the traditional European Flag Day, the Waiters and Waitresses' Race, the Skopje Marathon, as well as the very popular Matriculation Dance. In addition to this, a large number of panel discussions and public events throughout the country will also take place in the last week of April and first three weeks of May.

At the press conference, this year's Jean Monnet journalistic award was also announced. The topic for this year's award is "From the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 to the 2004 Enlargement". This year's topic was chosen in order to mark the 5th anniversary of the biggest EU enlargement and the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

For more detailed information about the Europe Day programme, please go to the following link: Detailed agenda English...