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On behalf of the Presidency Council of the International Pan-European Union, President Alain Terrenoire, Secretary General Pavo Barišić and Deputy Secretary General Vanja Gavran sent a Christmas and New Year greeting card crowned with a Pan-European message of peace for the coming year 2024.

Zagreb and Banja Luka hosted the international conference ‘Peace in Europe and the World’, organised by the Croatian Pan-European Union in cooperation with the Pan-European Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Pan-European Union from 27 to 29 October 2023.

The Declaration on Peace in Europe and the World was adopted at the Council of the Presidency of the International Pan-European Union on 29 October 2023 in Zagreb.

Paneuropa Italia, in collaboration with the Agromafia Observatory, Venice Julia Chamber and Villa Russiz Foundation, organised the international conference entitled ‘’Common values, youth and legality‘’ on 29 September 2023 at Villa Russiz in Gorizia.

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.