Euro2 Meeting 26 May - 1 June 2008 - RT2 Malta

Minutes of Presidents Meeting

Saturday, 31 May 2008

Held at the Riviera Hotel, Malta

Preliminaries

The Meeting started at 16.00 hrs and was chaired by Adrian Vella, the President of the hosting Round Table 2 Malta.

Present for the meeting were a maximum of two voting delegates from:  RTBI, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta and South Africa.

1a Welcome by Chairman.

The Chairman opened the meeting and welcomed the RT2 delegates.

1b Appointment of Secretary

Tony Zahra proposed that a secretary be appointed to take the Minutes of the Meeting. On a proposal from Petter Litti (Finland) it was proposed that Arnar Thor Jonsson of RT2 Iceland would be appointed as secretary. Arnar was elected to act as secretary to the meeting.

Due to time constrainst the Chairman opted not to appoint a master at arms‘.

2. Introduction and Recording of RT Euro2 Delegates

All delegates introduced themselves.  

3.-5. Reading of Minutes, corrections and approval of the Minutes, matters arising from the Minutes.

The Minutes of the previous Presidents Meeting held in Turku, Finland, were approved as presented.

Tony Zahra presented apologies and greetings from absent tables around Europe.  These also included greetings from the Vice-President of RTI and the President of LCI.

6. Euro2 Program

- This year´s comments and remarks: The Malta table received compliments as regards this year´s meeting and the PreTour. All participants are happy with the Program.

- Next year´s venue: The Icelandic delegates presented Iceland as next years venue and answered questions regarding sights, costs etc. A website with all information will be launched on 15 August 2008. Iceland was finally confirmed as next year´s venue. The Euromeeting will start Wednesday 28 May 2008. A pre-tour will also be offered and details will be available on the website.

- Venue for two years time: Presentations and decisions on Venue. Delegates from Cyprus and Lithuania presented their ideas regarding Euromeeting 2010. It was proposed that the two countries and the Meeting would reach an understanding by which each would take seperate years, but no agreement was reached and a vote was cast. Cyprus won the election by one vote. As a result, Euromeeting 2010 will be held in Cyprus.

7. Other Matters

It was confirmed that the Euro2 Scrap Book was permanently lost in Poland when a Tabler‘s car was stolen.

It was agreed that Malta will start a new scrap book. Pictures from this meeting will be posted to tony@euro2malta.com and will be subsequently posted on the following website: www.euro2malta.com. Everyone was asked to send their photos.

Finland invited delegates to join them at a Galadinner in Turku on 24 October 2008 to commemorate their 60 years anniversary.

There being no other matter to discuss the meeting was closed at 17.20 hrs

-------------------------------------------------------------       -------------------------------------------------------------

Euro2 Secretary                                                        Euro2 Chairman