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The third Paneurope France Summer University took place from 15 to 17 September 2023 at the Hôtel Continental Igesa in Hyères.

As a contribution to the anniversary celebrations, the Pan-European Union Germany organised a bus tour from 30 August to 7 September 2023 with a group of Pan-European multipliers, teachers and students to the founders and places of remembrance of European unification.

On Saturday, 17 June 2023, the ‘Point Alpha Prize’ was awarded in the German town of Geisa in Hesse, at the place where the easternmost point of the NATO alliance in Europe was located during the Cold War, in the Wartburg district. The award was presented to the International Pan-European Union, the oldest movement for the unification of Europe, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

Thirty young Pan-Europeans from Germany, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina met on 8 June 2023 for a conference at the Maria Star European Centre for Peace and Cooperation in Banja Luka. This was the central event of the Pan-European Youth Study Tour to Bosnia-Herzegovina, which took place from 8 to 11 June 2023.

The renewed Pan-European Union of Romania, led by President Alexandru Nazare, held its first international conference entitled ‘Paneuropean Roadmap for a Resilient Europe’ on 20 May 2023 at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest.

The 49th cross-border Pan-European Days in Szczecin, Poland, and Greifswald, part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, organised by the Pan-European Union Germany together with the Pan-European Union Poland from 12 to 14 May 2023, were all about a future European security architecture, the geostrategic situation in the Baltic Sea region and regional cooperation.

At the 59th Andechs Europe Day of the Pan-European Union Germany, which took place on 25/26 March 2023, President Bernd Posselt spoke out against the ‘widespread assertion’ that a European federal state with a common foreign and security policy is unrealistic: ‘The same was said in the past about the direct election of the European Parliament, the common market and the euro, but today they are taken for granted.’

On 10 March 2023, the international conference “One Hundred Years of the Pan-European Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina” was held in Sarajevo.

The focus was placed on the need to speed up the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after Bosnia and Herzegovina received the status in December 2022 candidate countries.

The Pan-European Union of France, in collaboration with the International Pan-European Union, organised international conference Paneurope 2023 from 17 to 19 February 2023 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pan-European Union.

The Macedonian Pan-European Union organised, on 3 December 2022, an international conference in Skopje entitled "The European Union on the brink of peace and stability: The main challenges of the EU: Enlargement, Economy, Demography, Energy, Food Scarcity".