Participants in this session will discuss democratic participation in Europe, with a focus on the EU institutions (the so-called "democratic deficit") and on the EU's response to challenges to democracy within member states.
January 19, 2021: Thierry Grillet interviews Florence Haegel, research director at Sciences Po (pre-recorded in French). The video will be posted on Columbia Global Centers | Paris YouTube Channel.
January 26, 2021 | 1pm (New York) | 7pm (Paris): Join Nadia Urbanati (Columbia), Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies), and Rui Tavares (writer, former EU Parliament member), in a debate moderated by Yves Meny (Academia Europaea).
This discussion is part of the series Debating the Future of Europe, organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the European Institute, the Alliance Program, and Thierry Grillet, former director of Cultural Affairs at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The debates are co-sponsored by Columbia's Maison Française, Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Alumni Association, European Legal Studies Center, and the Columbia University Libraries. This series is made possible in part thanks to the support of the Erasmus + programme of the European Union and the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Centers | Paris.