Securing better representation for Britons abroad
House of Commons and online
Wednesday, 2 July at 2.30 pm
Photo: Manuela Perteghella MP, Chair of APPG on Citizens’ Rights addressing meeting on the rights of EU citizens and Britons abroad in Westminster
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Citizens’ Rights
The challenges facing Britons abroad in securing representation in the UK will be the focus for the next meeting of the cross-party APPG on Citizens’ Rights at the House of Commons chaired by Manuela Perteghella MP.
The meeting will take place from 2:30pm - 4pm on Wednesday, 2 July at the House of Commons and online.
If you would like to attend in person, please contact Else Kvist, at else.kvist@neweuropeans.uk (Opens in a new window) or register below for the Zoom link:
At the meeting, MPs will examine what the UK can learn from from how Italy connects its government with its communities worldwide.
Elena Remigi, founder of the In Limbo project will address the meeting about the work of the Comites and General Council for Italian abroad (CGIE).
Committees are directly elected by Italian nationals living abroad in a particular territory. They act as a link between Italian communities and diplomatic consular missions. CGIE is a national advisory body to the Italian government and Parliament on matters concerning Italians worldwide.
In the second part of the meeting we will give an update on the New Europeans UK and Unlock Democracy campaign for overseas constituencies.
David Sapiro, Chair of Liberal Democrats in Europe, and representatives from Labour International and Conservatives Abroad have been invited to address the meeting as well as groups representing Britons abroad.
New Europeans UK acts as the secretariat of the APPG on Citizens’ Rights.
For more information and to support our overseas constituency campaign, please click on the lick below:
About Elena Remigi
Elena is an elected UK Councillor for both the CGIE and the Comites for Italians Abroad in London. She also cooperates with European research projects, such as “Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens’ identity and transnational discourses”.
She is also the Founder and Director of the not-for-profit project ‘In Limbo’, (Opens in a new window) founded in 2017 to give a voice and support to EU and British citizens. She has published two collections of testimonies about the human cost of Brexit called In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies from EU citizens in the UK (Opens in a new window) and In Limbo Too: Brexit testimonies from UK citizens in the EU (Opens in a new window).
These books have sparked significant interest by the international press and institutions, such as the European and Italian parliaments, and the French Senate, as well as universities, where she was invited to present them.
