The European, Mediterranean and Americas’ Region, abreviated to “E,M+A” or “EMA” was a region within RTI.
E&M Region (1983–1991)
The European and Mediterranean Region
The earliest record of E&M Tablers meetings, being EMTM 1983 in Malta.
The earliest record of an E&M chairman is 1985–1986, being Bjorn Johanson – RT Switzerland.
The discrepancy between these two is still being researched.
In 1986, the E&M region consisted of 24 Associtions, being RT Austria, RT Belgium, RT Cyprus, RT Denmark, RT Finland, RT France, RT Germany, RT Gibraltar, RTBI, RT Greece, RT Iceland, RT Israel, RT Italy, RT Luxembourg, RT Malta, RT Monaco, RT Morocco, RT The Netherlands, RT Norway, RT Portugal, RT Spain, RT Sweden, RT Switerland, RT Tunisia.
E&M becomes EMA Region (1991)
In 1991, Round Table International was reconstituted, and thus there was a revision of the regional strategies to best organise and support Round Table Associations around the world.
The EMA Region replaced the former E&M (or E+M or EM), which was part of WOCO, and incorporated the Americas as to be in a better situation to support them within this renewed RTI.
In a 1992 Newsletter, with a title “E+M Region of WOCO becomes E,M+A Region of RTI”, then RTI VP Cees Verweij wrote:
Our region leaves WOCO and creates a RTI Region with the Americans.
This is to avoid that other associations join our regional meetings and to simplify the structure as we do not have any Apex Clubs or Active 20/30 of JECC to join our Region. Besides that we want to support RT USA by inviting them to join our Region in RTI as was decided in Harare.
In Round Table International we can discuss our Table items as membership, expansion, international friendship, number meetings and twinning.
I am looking forward to meeting many of you in May, June and September.
Thus the role of E&M Regional Chairman within WOCO was replaced with an EMA Regional Chairman with RTI. Starting with the RTI Board 2004–2005, the role of EMA Chairman was to include the role of CSO.
The region coexisted with the Africa Region and Asia Pacific Region, covering a considerable number of Associations over multiple continents.
Regional Tabler Meetings
Full list of Tabler Meetings held:
Sub Regional Meetings
During the EMA Tabler Meetings, smaller meetings used to take place for Nordic, Central Europe, and South Associations. As of 2005, these subregions held their own regional Tablers Meetings hosted by one of the member Associations.
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- Nordic Tablers Meeting (NTM) (2005–2016)
- Central Tablers Meeting (CTM) (2005–2015)
- South Tablers Meeting (STM) (2005–2016)
EMA region becomes three (2016)
The EMA dissolved in 2016 and was replaced by three newly defined RTI Regions, namely:
These join a redefined Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean Region and the Asia Pacific Region, for a total of 5 regions covering all of the RTI associations.
The EMA Tabler’s Meeting was no longer required, as its function was replaced with the RTI AGM and IROs meetings. The subregional meetings of the CTM, NTM and STM were replaced with regional Tablers Meetings for each of the newly defined regions.
The role of CSO on the RTI board became its own position.
With three new Regional Chairmen, each of their office was represented by a new RTI chain of office. The previous chains of office for the EMA chairman could not be used, as they clearly had the name of the role on them. These jewels of the EMA Chairman are held in storage with the goal that they might be displayed at an RTI musuem.