Brother Reinold Simon, Honorary Life President of B’nai B’rith Europe, addressed numerous delegates from a variety of European countries at a meeting of FAN on Sunday, 2^nd September 2012. Click here for a summary of his address.

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June, 12 2012

FAN Meeting in the Bulgarian Parliament

FAN organized a meeting with 4 Bulgarian Parliamentarians in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June, 12, 2012, along with the Israeli Ambassador to Sofia in order to start developing an agenda with the Friendship Bulgarian Parliamentarian Group with Israel.

B’nai B’rith Director for EU Affairs was one of the speakers, concentrating his speech on how to develop links between the Bulgarian Parliament and the Israeli Knesset and to promote Israeli-issues related in new technology, environmental and defence capabilities and cultural ties between the two Parliaments.

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The Foreign Affairs Network (FAN) was created by B'nai B'rith Europe with the aim to pursue the following goals:

First, to provide B'nai B'rith Europe with a political voice vis-à-vis the national governments in Europe and the European institutions. We would like to be active in particular with regards to European affairs that concern the European-Jewish community and Israel directly. We believe that as Europeans we know best what is happening in Europe and what has to be done. With more than 6,000 members in 29 European countries we are at the pulse of political life on the Continent today. Through our lodges we are represented in almost every major city of Europe. This potential can and has to be used.

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Austria

On 01 February 2008 the Austrian-Jewish news website juedische.at published an article in which some of the quotes from the speech that Yves Pallade had given at the OSCE "Expert Forum on Combating Antisemitism - Challenges and Successful Strategies in the German bundestag, are rendered. See:
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/_v2/TCgi.cgi?target=home&;Param_Kat=16&Param_RB=&Param_Red=9237

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