Official start of the European Local Democracy Week 2015
This week (12-18 October) more than 130 events and activities are taking place at local level across 23 Member States of the Council of Europe to celebrate the 2015 edition of the European Local Democracy Week (ELDW). Participating municipalities are organising a wide range of events on this year’s theme "Living together in multicultural societies: respect, dialogue, interaction", such as seminars on solidarity, debates on human rights, exchanges with migrants and visits of refugee camps, bilingual theater performances, interviews with foreigners, exhibitions on recent armed conflicts and multicultural coffee mornings.