The EU: more united or more polarized? is the title of the XXXVI Seminar on Europe, which will be held tomorrow from 9.30 to 19.00 in Larra, the journalism space, home of the Fundación Diario MADRID (calle Larra, 14).
Experts such as the former High Representative for the EU’s common foreign and security policy, Javier Solana; Dita Charanzová, former Vice-President of the European Parliament, will be the main protagonist at this event organised by the Association of European Journalists.
With this seminar, the Association proposes to contribute to a better knowledge of the state of the Union after the elections last June and to understand its future better, analysing the cost of No Europe and seeking its position in the world.
Following the welcome address by Javier Solana, the first session, entitled Elections, management of discontent and polarization, will begin, with Dita Charanzová; the Danish political scientist, director of the European Policy Centre in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Marlene Wind, and the Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid and contributor to El País, Fernando Vallespín.
The second and third sessions, devoted to discussing the future of the EU and a possible enlargement of the EU, as well as looking at the journalistic vision of the EU in the world, with a special focus on the Middle East and Ukraine, The event will be attended by former President of the European Parliament, Enrique Barón, and journalists Fran Sevilla, Pilar Bonet and Carlos Franganillo.
In the afternoon, the fourth session, EU in the world II. Impact of the American elections. Una mirada al Este y al Sur, will join two former secretaries of state, Diego López Garrido and Ramón de Miguel, with the principal investigator of the Real Instituto Elcano, Carlos Malamud. The seminar will be closed by Antonio Rodríguez de Lievana, Director-General for Coordination of Internal Market and Other Community Policies, who will talk about the Cost of Non-Europe. More information at this link and @apeuropeos.org.
