Identity, Democracy, Sovereignty

Under the patronage of Armin Laschet MdL, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Pan-European Union Germany organised the 44th Pan-European Days in Paderborn from 22 to 24 June 2018.

The title of the congress was: ‘Identity, Democracy, Sovereignty - Triad for Paneuropa’.

The course for Christian Europe was set in Paderborn in 799, when Charlemagne, ruler of the Franks, reached an agreement with Pope Leo III, who had fled from rebellious Rome, which led to the Pope conferring the imperial dignity of the collapsed Imperium Romanum on the Carolingian a year later in St Peter's Basilica. This created an order based on supranational law and Christian faith, the last fringes of which collapsed in the First World War, which ended exactly 100 years ago.

Since then, Europe has been struggling for an equally supranational, now democratic order of nations, for which the Pan-European Union developed the first great vision as early as 1922 and which must finally be realised today.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has made proposals for a new start to European unification against nationalists and populists, to which the joint Pan-European Days of the Pan-European Union and Pan-European Youth in Germany sought an answer.

Programme (DE) (PDF)