Where is Europe heading after Brexit?
Ivan Krastev
Political scientist, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
After 1989, maps were suddenly no longer in fashion. Borders were to be opened to people, goods, capital and ideas. The old maps were replaced by graphics illustrating the economic interdependence within the EU. Today, we are experiencing an ideological tidal shift: whereas the majority of Europeans were optimistic about globalisation just a few years ago, they now see migration and the return of geopolitics as a source of uncertainty. Ivan Krastev analyses the causes of this change and discusses the forms that European disintegration could take. A disintegration of the EU, according to Krastev, would be a tragedy that would condemn the continent to international insignificance.
Moderation Isolde Charim, author and philosopher
The essay Europadämmerung by Ivan Krastev was published by edition suhrkamp in August 2017 (ISBN: 978-3-518-12712-4).
THE EVENT WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH