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Secretary's
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In 2009, the UK section had 44 members. Its officers were William Horsley (Chairman), Celia Hampton (Secretary) and Michael Springate (Treasurer). David Lennon continued with his valuable work as Events Director. During the year, our programme of meetings was supplemented by two additional events. On 30 April, we co-hosted a seminar on the elections for the European Parliament with the EP's London office. On 1 May, we supported the annual World Press Freedom Day debate where the motion "Governments at war are winning the battle of controlling the international media" was endorsed. Regular lunchtime meetings were held with the following guests: Declan Ganley, founder and chairman of Libertas Miroslav Kolatek and Josef Matějka, Embassy of the Czech Republic The Rt Hon Ms Caroline Flint MP, Minister for Europe Professor Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer and schoolmaster Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty HE Mr Georg Boomgaarden, German Ambassador to the UK Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial
Stability, Bank of England HE Mr
Staffan Carlsson, Swedish Ambassador to the UK A meeting
arranged with Transparency International UK's director, Chandu Krishnan, was
postponed until April 2010. Mr Kolatek and Mr Matějka kindly offered to take the floor after the untimely death of the
Czech Ambassador, Mr Jan Winkler, in February. |
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See
also Chairman's report, Report
to International AEJ, Minutes
of the AGM In July, management of the section's website was transferred to me. I have yet to solve all the riddles set by this task generally and by the log of visits in particular. Here are some headline numbers for the seven complete months of August to February. Unique visitors to the site ranged from 40 to 289 a month (average 208). They made 42-434 visits (average 331). Most visits (80-90%) lasted for less than 30 seconds. The commonest search terms were media and freedom. About half the visits are simply to the domain name (www.aej-uk.org), i.e. the Home Page. After that, in order of frequency, people visit the Europe Diary, the Survey and Contact pages (equal), Media Freedom, News/Events, AEJ in Europe, Membership, Past Events, Links and AEJ in the UK. The website gives you up-to-date information about what the AEJ is doing and planning. If you have any comments or suggestions about its content, please let me know. Finally, I would like to thank all of you for your support and friendship during my stint as secretary. Your continuing enthusiasm for our meetings is much appreciated. Celia
Hampton Secretary, AEJ UK Section 8 March 2010 |
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