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Brussels Civil Society: a mess or a shortcut to funding and influence?
by Filippo Addarii
My grandfather said ‘every month you must go to Rome if you want to get what you need for your hometown’. He was a top civil servant in my hometown Bologna. It was the 30s and Mussolini ruled in Italy.
My grandfather wasn’t a fascist but he obeyed (he said). So he went to Rome in the same way that I regularly go to Brussels. This is not just a habit in my family. Have you ever seen the TV show Rome? So you know since the Roman Empire there have been clientes.
At the time they woke up early in the morning to go to the house of dominus asking for favors and receiving obolo, the daily bread. At least once a month I wake up at dawn to catch up the Eurostar and go to Brussels for meetings with European officials and MEPs.
However, there are many other civil society leaders who don’t travel as much but settle down in the capital and live close to power. Have you ever heard about Brussels civil society?
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Filippo Addarii
Filippo Addarii is Executive Director of Euclid Network, the European network of third sector leaders (www.euclidnetwork.eu) and Director of the International Leadership at ACEVO – the British association of chief executives of voluntary organsiations (www.acevo.org.uk). In these roles he has developed networks to empower civil society across Europe, Asia, Africa, US and Middle East. He is member of the Citizenship Structured Dialogue Group of DG ED&Cult, European Commission. He’s non-ex board member of the Gum Arabic Foundation (www.gumarabic.org). The foundation aims to establish a fair trade certification for Gum Arabic, the main natural commodity in Sudan, combining a for-profit investment fund (150m €) and a non-profit projects for local development. He’s also advisory board member of ASPEL – association for Professional&Executive Learning (www.aspel.org) and non-ex board member of the company Nethical srl (www.nethical.net) leader in R&D new technologies for homecare. You can contact him on Skype: filippo.addarii.
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