Events & Meetings

Pierre Besnainou, who also holds the post of president of the European Jewish Congress, was elected president of the Fonds Social Juif Unifi̩ (United Jewish Welfare Fund) by a unanimous vote on June 19th, 2006, taking over from the outgoing president David de Rothschild

The President of the European Jewish Congress Pierre Besnainou took part in a study conference organized by the Israeli President Moshe Katsav this weekend, discussing with the Israeli President and other distinguished guests the potential strength of organized European Jewry, in light of an enlarged European Union

The European Jewish Congress, in conjunction with the CRIF, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, held a lively round table that shed some needed light on the situation of “Palestinian Refugees” in the Middle East, on Monday, the 29th of May

The European Jewish Congress met with the Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on May 18th, to voice its support for the country's entry into the European Union following Romania's important strides taken in combating anti-Semitism and supporting fair compensation and restitution for Holocaust survivors.

The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko met with Kantor, the President of the Russian Jewish Congress and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Jewish Congress, to discuss the preparation for the Second World Holocaust Forum in Kiev scheduled for September 2006

Leaders of Europe's principal Jewish organisations met in Paris on Sunday, 9 April 2006 as the first step to the creation of a common strategy on key issues affecting more than 2,5 million Jews across the continent