***CANCELLED*** EU IN TRANSITION

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS EVENT PLANNED FOR TODAY, 17 SEPTEMBER, CANNOT TAKE PLACE. WE WILL ORGANISE IT AT A LATER DATE. WE ASK FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

Helfried Carl in conversation with Erik Jones

EU IN TRANSITION

After the outcome of the elections to the European Parliament in early June, an informal coalition composed of the Conservative, Liberal and Social Democratic party families agreed quite swiftly among themselves on the division of posts on the top echelons of the EU's institutions. But what will be the long-term consequences of the election success of the emboldened, if still fractured hard-right parties and the significant weakening of the Green parties for the policy mandate of the incoming European Commission? The Strategic Agenda 2024-2029, adopted by the European Council together with the personnel package on 27 June 2024 diagnosed a global political landscape “reshaped by strategic competition, growing global instability and attempts to undermine the rules-based international order”. Is the Union prepared to deal with these challenges?

Prof Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute's renowned annual State of the Union Conference. He has published extensively on topics related to European politics, with a special focus on political economy. He is co-editor of the Journal Government & Opposition. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.

Helfried Carl, diplomat, since 2019 partner of the Innovation in Politics Institute in Vienna and founder of the European Capital of Democracy initiative. From 2014-2019 he served as Austria's Ambassador to the Slovak Republic. From 2008-2014, he was Chief of Cabinet and foreign policy advisor to the late President of the Austrian Parliament (National Council), Barbara Prammer.