Whilst there seems to be near-consensus that the European institutions suffer from a lack of democratic legitimacy, nothing similar can be said about the best way to address this problem. In a thought-provoking presentation that kicked off the fifth Conversation on the Future of Europe, Prof. Francis Cheneval (University of Zurich) laid out his proposal […]
For the third Conversation of 2020, EUSOL and the Robert Schuman Center were very happy to welcome Prof. George Papaconstantinou (EUI Transformation of Global Governance Project) who discussed some of the core theses of his recent book “Whatever it Takes? How to Move Ahead in Post-Crisis Europe” with a special focus on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the […]
Under very different circumstances due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the second instalment of the 2020 edition of the Conversations on the Future of Europe resumed—via videoconferencing— on May 6. The organisers were especially grateful to our speakers, Dr. Cristina Costa (University of Durham), Dr. Mark Murphy (University of Glasgow), Dr. Guido Reverdito (Smith College, CAPA), and our […]
A series of online events tackling major EU challenges taking place from February to June 2020 Wednesday 13 May 2020 | 13:00 – 14:30 (CET) | via ZOOM Covid-19 has demonstrated that economic governance reform in the EMU remains more urgent than ever. In the Eurozone sovereign crisis, the severe asymmetric shock that hit the euro area revealed important gaps in […]
Objective: To guide the steps of the European Union and to mobilise its citizens so as to make policy change possible, it is not sufficient to analyse the past and criticise the present. It is necessary to develop concrete proposals for a better future and to subject them to critical multidisciplinary discussion. The Conversations for […]
The last installment of this year’s Conversations on the Future of Europe addressed the question whether some of the European Union’s current problems could be alleviated, or indeed resolved, if the union shifted more towards differentiated integration. Under differentiated integration the traditional model of homogenous integration amongst member states is supplemented, and in some areas […]
EUSOL hosted its first international workshop in Florence 16-17 May 2019. In order to lay the theoretical groundwork for subsequent research on European Solidarity, the topic of this philosophically-minded conference was “Solidarity: Its Nature and Value.” We were most fortunate to be able to welcome some of the foremost scholars that have contributed to the […]
The Conversation for the Future of Europe series continued this week with the topic of European social policy. More specifically, we asked whether Social Investment can provide the basis for a European Social Union. Our speakers on this topic, Anton Hemerijck (EUI) and Chiara Saraceno (University of Turin), could each draw on extensive expertise in this area and […]
In the latest Conversation for the Future of Europe, we welcomed Waltraud Schelkle (Professor of political economy at the LSE) and Eloïse Stéclebout-Orseau (European Fiscal Board). The topic of each of their contributions was the timely issue of Eurozone reform: what realistic policy proposal could ensure the monetary union’s stability and proper functioning as well […]
In our second Conversation we turned to one of the most hotly debated topics in EU politics, namely the conditionality of access to social rights by EU citizens living and working in other member states. Our first speaker, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Professor of comparative public policy at the University of Tübingen, situated the challenge of social rights […]