Friends of Greece
We, the Friends of Greece,
can and should try to help by buying the Greek products, by developing
tourism, by sharing best practices among
our peoples, by producing some of our commodities in Greece, by partnerships,
by joint sales promotion, by investments, by offering training - in any way we
can be useful.
Friends of Greece
is an association registered under Danish law (by August 25, 2015).
PROJECT 4
How to engage the Greek diaspora
There are several million Greek citizens and other
citizens with a Greek background all over the world, not least in Europe, in
the US and in Australia.
Many of them are already making very important efforts
to help and support Greece in the present difficult situation.
We, Friends of Greece, believe that we in cooperation
with the organisation Europeans
Throughout the World (www.euromonde.eu) -
representing about 80 million European expatriates all over the world - can
mobilise very useful experience from many countries on how their expats - their
citizens abroad - help their home country in many different ways. And we are
convinces that much of this experience can and should also be used by the Greek
expats abroad in their support to Greece.
A number of case studies:
IRELAND:
Kingsley Aikins, Diaspora Matters, Dublin:
I do think that
Greece should be actively engaging their Diaspora as they begin to recover from
their problems.
Can I suggest you check out the Diaspora Matters
website (www.diasporamatters.com
) and especially the 100 Global Diaspora initiatives
that includes 25 from Ireland. Also download the Global Diaspora Strategies
Toolkit (http://diasporaydesarrollo.org/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=1004806f-0e59-4a61-b56c-52154d795d1f
) . Also keep in touch as I am working
on a whole series of videos and related material on Diaspora engagement which
should be ready in a couple of months. I have developed a series on Networking
which you might find of interest and will send you some information on these.
Kingsley Aikins
Diaspora Matters
Tel. +353 86 8064665
www.diasporamatters.com
ie.linkedin.com/in/kingsleyaikins
FRANCE....
POLAND:
The Polish government has in 2015 adopted a new 6-year
programme for cooperation with the Polish diaspora abroad.
There are between 18 and 20
million Polish expatriates living all over the world at the moment. The
programme aims to address the challenge of collaborating with them – to allow
migrants working on Europe’s labour markets to maintain their bond with Poland,
to offer young members of Polish communities cooperation on attractive terms,
to tap into the potential of Polish-born professionals, and to effectively
safeguard the rights of Polish minorities.
In the programme, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs invites Polish diaspora partners to engage in joint and
mutually beneficial efforts to project a fair image of Poland abroad, and to
work together on deepening Poland’s cooperation with our compatriots’ countries
of residence in the regional (through local governments) and sector-specific
(through universities, cultural institutions, and businesses) dimensions.
The programme breaks new ground
by laying down the rules of cooperation between the Government, and the Polish
diaspora and Poles abroad, and by emphasizing the partnership aspect.
Partnership was the guiding principle already at the drafting stage – the
process of comprehensive consultations was well received by Polish communities
abroad. We wish to emphasize that the document fully recognizes the fact that
our fellow country people are, for the most part, citizens of other countries,
to which they owe civil loyalty. We also appreciate that many of our
compatriots have lost their command of the Polish language, so it is necessary
to communicate with them in the language of their country of residence.
PORTUGAL.....
LITHUANIA.....
FINLAND:
Expatriate Finns are a resource for Finland. They
contribute to make Finland and Finnish culture known abroad. They also bring
with them knowledge and skills which they have acquired home to Finland. It is
important for Finland that the link between expatriate Finns and Finland stays
strong and that expat Finns remain involved with the Finnish society.
The
Finnish Expatriate Parliament (the FEP) promotes the interest of all expatriate
Finns, being their direct link to the Finnish society.
The FEP was established in 1997. Finland Society
provides for it its permanent secretariat.
BELGIUM....
SWITZERLAND .......
MALTA.....
Niels
Jørgen Thøgersen - niels4europe@gmail.com September 17, 2015
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