RES PUBLICA IN A EUROPE OF GENERATIONS

Ulrike Beate Guérot
German political scientist and publicist. She is Professor of European Politics and Democracy Research at Danube University Krems, founder of the European Democracy Lab (EDL) in Berlin and focusses on the future of the European Union.

Lecture and discussion with Ulrike Guérot, Ulrike Lunacek, Laura Schoch

Laura Schoch, connect Kinderfreunde
Ulrike Lunacek, Vice-President of the EP (ret.).

Moderation
Elisabeth Donat, Department for European Politics and Democracy Research at Danube University Krems

The concept of res publica is the most valuable thing that the history of political ideas has produced in Europe since Plato. It is the unique European characteristic on which a European „sense of unity“ can be based. Res publica includes a commitment to the political organisation of the community, from which social justice and general welfare can be derived as normative goals. This is not found in the United States, nor in autocratic-oligarchic Russia, let alone in pre-democratic China. Res publica is therefore what Europe is essentially about!