The Re-Bel Initiative
Re-Bel's third public event will take place at the University Foundation on Thursday 3 June 2010.
It will focus on two questions:
(1) Social federalism: How is a multi-level welfare state best organized?
Lead piece by Patricia Popelier (Antwerpen)
(2) Educational divergence: Why do pupils perform better in Flemish schools than in Francophone schools?
Lead piece by Vincent Vandenberghe (Louvain)
Re-Bel's fourth public event is scheduled for Thursday 16 December 2010.
It is expected to focus on two questions:
(1) The extreme right: Why is it more successful in Flanders than in Wallonia and Brussels?
(2) Linguistic diversity: How should our educational systems cope with it ?
Warm thanks to all those who helped make Re-Bel's second public event an instructive, lively and enjoyable event.
The background texts are available for download: The Belgian Federation: Can we improve the way its components are funded? Can we improve the way its leaders are elected?
A new e-book edited and introduced by Paul De Grauwe (K.U.Leuven) and Mathias Dewatripont (U.L.B.) will gather all contributions to part I of the event. It is expected to be available in March 2010. The interventions by Rudy Andeweg, Lurent de Briey and Bart Maddens in part II should be made available by February 2010 next to Re-Bel e-book N°4: Electoral Engineering for a Stalled Federation
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The Re-Bel initiative aims to rethink in depth, in an open, rigorous, non-partisan way, what the institutions of the Belgian federal state - or of whatever else this part of the world needs to become - can and must look like in the longer term, taking full account of the evolving European context.
The Re-Bel initiative does not aim to produce one programme or manifesto to which everyone involved could subscribe. Its ambition is rather to provide a fertile intellectual environment in which new ideas and promising initiatives of all sorts can germinate and develop, with a concern for their relevance to a thorough reform of Belgium's institutions, but also to the institutional design of other complex polities, most obviously the European Union.
The initiative is sponsored by the Brussels-based University Foundation, which will host all its activities. One of the missions of the University Foundation is to foster contacts and collaboration between all Belgian universities. The Re-Bel initiative will contribute to it, especially through the publication of a series of collective e-books and through the organization of public events.
The Re-Bel initiative plans to associate to its activities both foreign colleagues and the Brussels-based international community. The working language will usually be English.
For further information about the intiative and its initiators, see About Re-Bel.
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