VISION FOR NEXT EUROPE
How to cope with a fundamental political re-set of the Union?
Is the EU still a success story and a cornerstone of European stability and prosperity? Currently, the EU faces a range of political and economic pressures, including slow growth and persistently high unemployment in many EU countries, as well as the rise of far-right populist parties, at least some of which harbor anti-EU or “euroskeptic” sentiments. Such factors are complicating the EU’s ability to deal with a multitude of unprecedented internal and external challenges. Among them: the definition of the external borders of the EU; the future of EU enlargement; the decision over a stronger EU (federalization, EU defence integration) or a two (or even three) speed Europe.
What Next Europe is going to be? How do we have to re-think the Union, the EU institutions? Do we get closer or fall apart? What if Brexit?
Discussed on May 30, 2016 at the Kreisky Forum by Ulrike Guérot, Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab at the European School of Governance in Berlin, Ruth Wodak, Em. Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, Robert Cooper, Diplomat, Former Counsellor, European External Action Service, Soli Ozel, Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and Ivan Krastev, Chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies; Permanent Fellow IWM