European Solidarity: Where do we stand? Should we foster it and how?

European Forum of Think Tanks 2010

02.10.2010, Barcelona

Participation in the European Forum of Think Tanks dealing with the state and prospects of European solidarity in light of the current economic and sovereign debt crisis. The 2010 Forum was organized by Notre Europe, Generalitat de Catalunya, and CIDOB, in cooperation with the Aspen Institut France, and the members of the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN).

Participants included inter alia Dimitar Bechev, Head of office, ECFR Sofia; Edward Bannerman, Member of Lady Ashton‟s Cabinet; Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, European Parliament; Peter Bofinger, Economist, German Council of Economic Experts; Anna Diamantopoulou, Greek Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Athens; Giovanni Grevi, Senior Researcher, FRIDE; José Leandro, Member of President Van Rompuy‟s Cabinet; Kalypso Nicolaïdis, University of Oxford; Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, President Notre Europe, Paris; Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul, Secretary-General, Notre Europe; Daniela Schwarzer, Head of the EU Integration Research Division, SWP; Pawel Swieboda, President of demosEUROPA, Warsaw; Loukas Tsoukalis, President of ELIAMEP, Athens; Philippe Van Parijs, Université Catholique de LouvainJérome Vignon, former General Director, European Commission.

For more information about the event and the European Forum of Think Tanks see the respective website of Notre Europe here.