5 May - Morning • Salone dei Cinquecento – Palazzo Vecchio |
00:35:40 - Welcome
00:53:24 - What future for the European foreign policy?
01:20:21 - Reaction to "What future for the European foreign policy?"
1:45:25 - A silver lining from the energy crisis? Strengthening the delivery of the EU’s net-zero goal, citizen welfare and energy security in responding to the energy crisis
02:45:19 - Love thy neighbour: Central European politics and the war in Ukraine
03:11:20 - The State of the Union 2023 Lecture – Q&A
03:43:00 - Presentation of the Solidarity in Europe Survey: joint Project EUI – YouGov
Title: Welcome
Time: 00:35:40
Speakers: Dario Nardella, Eugenio Giani, Renaud Dehousse
Title: What future for the European foreign policy?
Time: 00:53:24
Moderator: Méabh Mc Mahon
Speaker: Josep Borrell Fontelles
Title: Reaction to "What future for the European foreign policy?"
Time: 01:20:21
Moderator: Méabh Mc Mahon
Speakers: Norbert Röttgen, Arnaud Danjean
Title: A silver lining from the energy crisis? Strengthening the delivery of the EU’s net-zero goal, citizen welfare and energy security in responding to the energy crisis
Time: 01:45:25
Opening: Frank Elderson
Moderator: Andris Piebalgs
Co-Moderator: Marzia Sesini
Speakers: Cristian Busoi, Marco Buti, Ditte Juul Jørgensen
Europe is facing the most serious energy crisis in its history. Deliveries from Russia, previously the EU's largest gas supplier, have been reduced to a fraction of 2020 volumes. Europe’s energy security of supply is under threat and energy prices have skyrocketed. In response, the EU has adopted new legal acts at unprecedented speed and EU Member States are providing support to households and industry. But these necessary short-term reactions have also led to challenges – and opportunities – to decarbonisation goals. Accelerating delivery on the core measures – energy efficiency and massive investments in renewable energy – must be the foundation of the EU's response, as well as rapidly diversifying gas supplies away from Russia. How can Europe’s industrial competitiveness be maintained in the transitional phase, and how can we ensure that energy poverty across the whole EU is avoided?
Title: Love thy neighbour: Central European politics and the war in Ukraine
Time: 02:45:19
Moderator: Peggy Hollinger
Speakers: Rastislav Káčer, Alexander Schallenberg
Title: The State of the Union 2023 Lecture – Q&A
Time: 03:11:20
Speaker: Anton Hemerijck
At the peak of the sovereign debt crisis in 2013, Angela Merkel summarised the dominant thinking of the time, by implicating that Europe is not competitive because, comprising only 7% of the world’s population, contributing the 25% of the world’s GDP, it spends 50% of the global outlays on social protection. The idea that there is a trade-off between social protection and competitiveness goes back to the founding moments of the Single Market and EMU in the 1980s and 1990s. An internal market level-playing field, laced with a monetary union, lacking a lender-of-last-result facility, and a fiscal compact based on the infamous no-bailout clause, and 3% and 60% threshold for public deficits and debt, were believed to help keep member states’ allegedly ‘wasteful’ welfare in check. How different Europe looks like today. The ECB has become, as it should, a formidable lender of last resort in the wake of the Great Recession; the EU has finally come round on macroeconomic stabilisation through SURE and fiscal solidarity with the RRF. These shifts were decidedly prefaced by two key lessons in welfare provision arising from the experience of the global financial crisis. In hindsight, the more inclusive welfare states of the EU buffered the Great Recession the best for both the macroeconomy and poverty mitigation, and, among them, the most active ones bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic the fastest. Welfare provision, if it organised around the principles of inclusive buffers, gender-balanced life-course and labour market transitions, and life-long human capital stock development and maintenance, is a formidable productive factor. It took some time for EU policy makers to come round on the positive consensus and to establish an E(M)U holding environment for active (social investment) welfare states to prosper.
Title: Presentation of the Solidarity in Europe Survey: joint Project EUI – YouGov
Time: 03:43:00
Speakers: Luis Russo
The State of the Union 2023 - #SOU2023
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