Senlime, esperanto-asocio en Euregiono Mozo-Rejno - English

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The Meuse-Rhine Euregio is a culturally rich community, cooperating beyond borders, inside the European Union.
The Meuse-Rhine Euregio includes the Belgian provinces of Limburg (800.000 inhabitants) and of Liège (1 million inhabitants), the south-west of the Netherlandish Limburg (700.000 inhabitants), and the under-region of Aachen (west of the district of Koeln, with more than a million inhabitants).
This trilingual region, where regional and linguistic borders don't coincide, had a long common history. Point of contact between three important cultural currents, the Meuse-Rhine Euregio is aspiring to the European unification.

Already before World War II, Esperantist neighbors of the three countries used to meet. They often cycled over and spent the night at one of their friends.
That is how the Trilandaj Renkontighoj-s started, as meetings of Esperantists from the three countries; they now take place every year (in spring and autumn).
Every regional group of esperantists (Aix, Marnoland, Verviers,...) alternatively organized Meetings of the three countries. Small groups of volunteers succeeded in originating some sort of committee.
So, little by little, the Meeting of the Three Countries turned into a three-national association. It was founded on the 17th of october 1993, on the occasion of a historic Meeting of the Three Countries at La Calamine (Belgium), whose purpose was in fact the revival of the old esperantist project of creating in Neutral Moresnet quite near a real state with Esperanto as a language.
One year later, on the occasion of an other Trilanda Renkontigho, this time at Comblain-au-Pont (Belgium), the second general assembly of members approved the definitive statutes and the internal rule of the association.

ART. 1. - The Senlime [borderless] association plans to support the intercomprehension between peoples with the help of the international language: Esperanto, especially in the Meuse-Rhine Euregio. Its head office is: Tienbundersweg 38, NL-6321 CR WIJLRES.
ART. 2. - 1. Is a member any Esperantist living in the European Union, who is interested in the Meuse-Rhine Euregio and who supports the association [for example by paying a yearly contribution].
ART. 7. - The board of directors consists of members, i.e. representatives from all groups and of esperantists who would be ready to actively cooperate with the association, for instance by organizing a Trilanda in their region.

The association is directed by the General assembly, meeting every year on the occasion of a Trilanda Renkontigho, but the daily management of the association is taken in charge by a committee (meeting every two months), that includes:
- three secretaries (one for each language), among which a Chief of Staff;
- three treasurers (one for every country), among whom a central treasurer;
- other permanent collaborators with definite tasks in common.
One of the main tasks of the committee is the organization of the Meetings of the three Countries. The committee sends a personal invitation and information about meetings and the other points concerning the association to all members (all regular members pay a reduced price for all Trilanda Renkontigho).

An affiliation is valid only after the payment of the contribution.