{"id":13,"date":"2015-03-11T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=13"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:07:59","slug":"reconnecting-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/reconnecting-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconnecting Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bridging the Gap between European Citizens and European Institutions<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>This event was jointly organised with\u00a0the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evensfoundation.be\/\"><strong>Evens Foundation<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/home.aspx\">European Institute, LSE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 11 March 2015, 1.45-8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Welcome Address<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20150311_1345_reconnectingEurope.mp3\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission_2010-2014\/almunia\/index_en.htm\"><strong>Joaqu\u00edn Almunia<\/strong><\/a>, Ex-Vice-President of the European Commission and\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner responsible for competition<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Disintegrating Europe: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalization<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/Podcast\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Introduction<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/government\/whosWho\/Academic%20profiles\/jbreuilly@lseacuk\/Home.aspx\">John Breuilly<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, LSE<\/p>\n<p><em>Speaker<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sant.ox.ac.uk\/people\/knicolaidis\/\">Kalypso Nicola\u00efdis<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Studies Centre, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>At the level of both the member states and the EU as a whole there are social forces pulling in opposite directions (both local and global), putting tremendous pressure on existing political institutions. This session explored the cultural and political conditions prevailing in Europe today.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Political Economy of European Union<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2969\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Introduction<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/hancke\/home.aspx\">Bob Hanck\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute, LSE<\/p>\n<p><em>Speaker<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/government\/whosWho\/Academic%20profiles\/dwsoskice@lseacuk\/Home.aspx\">David Soskice<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Political Science and Economics, LSE<\/p>\n<p>Can Europe\u2019s member states sustain the European Social Model? This session explored how economic innovations promoted by the EU (the Euro, Banking Union, debt sharing) as well as global \u2018neoliberal\u2019 market developments are changing the European political-economy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>European Politics and Government\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2970\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Introduction<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/kleine\/home.aspx\">Mareike Kleine<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of EU and International Politics, European Institute, LSE<\/p>\n<p><em>Speaker<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanholslag.be\/\">Jonathan Holslag<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of International Politics, The Free University of Brussels<\/p>\n<p>European politics has been dominated by the vexed question of the democratic deficit. 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Or should we look for innovations at the national, regional, or even city level?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/08\/evens-foundation1-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/08\/evens-foundation1--300x108.jpg\" alt=\"evens foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/08\/evens-foundation2-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/08\/evens-foundation2--300x92.jpg\" alt=\"evens foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridging the Gap between European Citizens and European Institutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[74,24,77,20],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-economics","tag-philosophyofeurope","tag-policy","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12515,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/12515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}