Thursday |22.03.2018 | 18:00 | C3 – Centre for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna

Context and Motivation

Near­ly ten years into the cri­sis, after the EU opted for aus­teri­ty and dere­gu­la­ti­on, the mem­ber sta­tes are still loo­king for the way out. The reper­cus­sions inclu­de the rise of ultra-right wing poli­ti­cal for­ces across Euro­pe which feeds into the anti-Euro­pean popu­lar sen­ti­ment they cul­ti­va­te. Exi­t­ing the EU has been gai­ning ground and will soon be the case for Bri­tain. This repres­ents a tur­ning point in the histo­ry of the EU, against an ‚ever clo­ser union‘.

Can the EU still be saved? This is a dif­fi­cult ques­ti­on inde­ed. The White Paper on the Future of Euro­pe pro­du­ced by the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on details five sce­n­a­ri­os. Howe­ver, the­se tend to over­look inherent ten­si­ons in Euro­pe, e.g. heigh­te­ned inse­cu­ri­ty rela­ting to labour mar­kets, the role of finan­ce in the post-cri­sis era, and the rise of a sub­al­tern class across Euro­pe. The Euro­Me­mo­ran­dum 2018 cri­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­ses recent deve­lo­p­ments in Euro­pe and empha­si­ses the strong need for alter­na­ti­ve poli­ci­es. The eco­no­mic sys­tem impo­sed in the after­math of the cri­sis must be chan­ged through a shared Euro­pean pro­cess. The future of Euro­pean inte­gra­ti­on will depend on the deepe­ning of demo­cra­cy in the inte­rests of sta­bi­li­ty, soli­da­ri­ty and social justice.

The Euro­Me­mo­ran­dum 2018 cri­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­ses recent eco­no­mic deve­lo­p­ments in Euro­pe and empha­si­ses the strong need for an alter­na­ti­ve eco­no­mic poli­cy that is based on the princi­ples of demo­cra­tic par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on, social jus­ti­ce and envi­ron­men­tal sustainability.

Down­load of Euro­Me­mo­ran­dum 2018
http://www2.euromemorandum.eu/uploads/euromemorandum_2018.pdf

Programme

Con­fe­rence lan­guage: English

Speakers

Mari­ca Frangakis
is a mem­ber of the Stee­ring Com­mit­tee of the Euro­Me­mo Group, a foun­ding mem­ber of ATTAC Hel­las and a board mem­ber of the Nicos Pou­lant­z­as Insti­tu­te in Athens, Greece.

Peter Herr­mann
is a mem­ber of the Stee­ring Com­mit­tee of the Euro­Me­mo Group and rese­arch fel­low at the Max Planck Insti­tu­te for Social Law and Social Poli­cy in Munich, Germany.

Heik­ki Pattomäki
is pro­fes­sor of world poli­tics at the Depart­ment of Poli­ti­cal and Eco­no­mic Stu­dies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hel­sin­ki in Finland.

Wer­ner Raza
is a mem­ber of the Stee­ring Com­mit­tee of the Euro­Me­mo Group and direc­tor of ÖFSE – Aus­tri­an Foun­da­ti­on for Deve­lo­p­ment Research.

Registration

Ingrid Pump­ler
office@oefse.at or
Pho­ne: +43/​1/​317 40 10–100

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