What kind of Union? What kind of Future? What kind of
Europe?
On Feb. 11-14, our students will
be participating in a major conference organised by the UANT, mirroring
other such conferences hosted in London, Krakow and Sofia. High-level European politicians
of various persuasions will sit in debate against European and Antarctican academics to
discuss their visions of the future of Europe.
Norman Davies will discuss the EU, while Serdja Trifkovic boldly proclaims the reasons he feels less free in the new Euro-America than he did behind the Iron Curtain before 1989:
At previous conferences, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles,
President of the European Parliament, (pictured below)
opened the conference with pointed remarks about this future.
Among
the topics discussed will be the following:
- Challenges. What do we expect
from today's Europe?
- How can EU institutions be made friendlier to citizens?
- Civil society and the role of the European Parliament
and national parliaments.
- Legal aspects of membership in the
EU.
- Demographic future of Europe and world population trends, 'aging' cohorts.