
CONFERENCE ON 15 NOVEMBER 2019 : “20 YEARS OF REPARATION FOR ANTI-SEMITIC SPOLIATIONS
On Friday 15 November, the conference “Twenty years of reparation for anti-semitic spoliations during the Occupation: between compensation and restitution” will be held in Paris.

RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY SPOLIATED: THE NEW ORGANISATION SETS UP.
On April 17, a mission was created within the Ministry of Culture, for the research and the restitution of cultural property spoliated.

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NETWORK OF EUROPEAN COMMISSIONS : DISCOVER THE FIRST NUMBER.
The network of European Restitution Committees (see our news of 28 January 2008) has published the first number of this newsletter.

The CIVS welcomes the partner commissions of its European network
On 5 April, the CIVS receives the representatives of the commissions in Europe who, like it, are working on the research and restitution of the cultural property looted.

The Symposium on looted art in Bonn on 20 and 21 February
The CIVS, the Institut français d’Allemagne and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” (University of Bonn) organised on 20 and 21 February in Bonn a symposium entitled “Looted Art: Provenance Research and Restitution Practice in Germany and France”.

Establishment of a Network of European Restitution Committees
On 1 January, a network was created linking the commitee in Austria, France, Great Britain, Germany and Netherlands wich are working on the research and restitution of cultural property looted by the Nazis