45th Pan-European Days in Straubing and Regensburg

The Pan-European Union of Germany, together with the Pan-European Union in the Czech Republic, organised the 45th Pan-European Days in Straubing and Regensburg from 3 to 5 May 2019.

Under the title ‘On the Danube, Vltava and Rhine - Europe's Parliament unites the peoples’, the congress took place in two magnificent Danube cities.

The congress participants visited Regensburg on Saturday and took a boat trip on the Danube.

Straubing and Regensburg were centres of Celtic and Roman Europe and then, as metropolises of Christian Europe, assumed a unifying function that continues to this day. The Wittelsbachs, who resided in the Lower Bavarian ducal town of Straubing, also had Bohemian roots through the Counts of Bogen, and their territory extended as far as Holland at times. The last Carolingians resided in Regensburg as the heirs of Charlemagne and turned the former Roman settlement into the oldest German and Bavarian capital, from which Bohemia and large parts of the Danube region were evangelised.

One hundred years after the First World War, the dismantling of the Danube monarchy and the Paris Suburb Treaties of 1919, it was high time to push ahead with European unification, especially as it was acutely jeopardised by nationalism and extremism.

As the oldest European unification movement, the main aim of the 45th Pan-European Days was to make a non-partisan contribution to the European elections at the end of May and to provide impetus for the further development of the EU into a strong democratic federation.

Programme (DE) (PDF)