The European Network of Restitution Committees brought together in Berlin
Published on 25/03/2025 - Updated on 13/04/2025
On Thursday March 20 and Friday March 20, 2025, in Berlin, the CIVS brought together its Austrian, German, Dutch, British and Swiss partners for a meeting organized within the framework of the French presidency of the European network of restitution commissions.
This network has linked since 2019 to the five commissions which, in Europe, are working to research and the restitution of cultural goods robbed by the Nazis:
the Beratende Kommission (Germany),
the Kommission für Provenienzforschung (Austria),
the CIVS (France),
the Restitutiecommissie (Netherlands),
and the Spoliation Advisory Panel (United-Kingdom).
Until the summer of 2025, France, represented by the CIVS and the mission of research and restitution of cultural goods robbed between 1933 and 1945 (M2RS) of the Ministry of Culture, chaired this network. She leads this multilateral cooperation by organizing the production of common publications, working sessions and public events.
The meeting organized at the French Embassy in Berlin, on March 20 and 21, had the objective of the analysis and comparison of the institutional, legal and cultural approaches of each country and the functioning of each commission. The working sessions devoted to the standard case review allowed everyone to enter the debate concretely. This meeting was concluded by François Delattre, French ambassador to Germany.
The deliberative college of CIVS was represented there by its chair Frédérique Dreifuss-Netter, Charles-Edouard Bucher, Dominique Ribeyre and Ines Rotermund-Reynard.
Photographic credits: Monique Ulrich / French Embassy in Germany.
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