What EU after the crisis?
EPC/ELIAMEP Policy Dialogue
31.05.2011, Brussels
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From left to right: Emmanouilidis, Berès, Martens, Monti, Tsoukalis
Active participation in a Policy Dialogue organised by the European Policy Centre and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) on What kind of EU after the crisis?, which took place on 31 May 2011 in Brussels.
The last year has been an annus horribilis for the European Union. The euro crisis has cast into doubt some of the fundamentals of European integration as the EU faces one of its most profound and serious tests. However, much has been accomplished since the outbreak of the crisis. The EU and its members are in the process of putting in place an enhanced model of economic governance, including inter alia a stricter Stability and Growth Pact, a system of macro-economic surveillance, the Euro Plus Pact, and a permanent European Stability Mechanism. But will all these measures contain the current crisis and avert a future one? And more fundamentally, how will the EU emerge from the crisis? What are the mid and long-term political, economic and social consequences of the sovereign debt crisis? And how will the Union, and especially the euro zone, cope with an increasing level of economic heterogeneity?
These and other questions were discussed by a panel of speakers, including Mario Monti, President of Bocconi University of Milan and former European Commissioner, Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor at the University of Athens and President of ELIAMEP, Pervenche Berès, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, and Janis A. Emmanouilidis, EPC Senior Policy Analyst. The Policy Dialogue was chaired by Hans Martens, EPC Chief Executive.
This event coincided with the publication of a book co-edited by Loukas Tsoukalis and Janis A. Emmanouilidis entitled The Delphic Oracle on Europe – Is there a Future for the European Union? published by Oxford University Press.
For more information about the event see the website of EPC here.