MOST RECENT EVENTS

On August 14th 2002, a Workshop was held in Mangalia, which was focused on the ideas promoted by a forerunner of Modern Europe, David Mitrany. He was born in 1888 in Romania and became a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1914. Subsequently, he worked with the Romanian Legation in London and then with the British Foreign Office.

His main writings are focused on the idea of a Federal Europe.

Published writings:

• The functional theory of essays
• The effect of the War in south-eastern Europe
• Greater Romania: a study in national ideals
• The land and the peasant in Romania: the war and the agrarian reform
• Marx against the peasant: a problem of international sanctions.

The foreign lecturers at the Workshop in Mangalia were:

• Dr. Armand Clesse - director, Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies
• Dr. Christopher Coker - lecturer, London School of Economics
• Mr. Mario Hirsch - chief editor, Letzbuerger Land
• Prof. Michael Ambrosi - professor of European Economic Policy, Trier University
  

The Romanian lecturers were:

• Professor Mircea Malitza - president of the Black Sea University Foundation - Mitrany and the cooperation process in the Black Sea Area and SE Europe
• Ambassador Nicolae Micu - Mitrany in the Romanian diplomacy
• Mr. Bogdan Lepadatu - Functionalism and European Integration
• Ambassador Mircea Mitran - The European Context and Mitrany`s ideas