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About the event
In September, veteran of EU affairs, Mario Draghi, released his long-awaited report on the state of the Union’s economy. In a world moving away from cooperation to competition, following the Covid pandemic, his predictions are coming chillingly true. Draghi identifies 3 main fields of European action: 1) Technological innovation, 2) The Green Policy and competitiveness, and 3) Increasing security and reducing dependencies. Yet, European corporations have fallen behind in technology and innovation, when compared to their US and PRC counterparts. Unless we can sustain our economic model, Draghi says, we’ll need to make a collective choice to reduce these sectors to 2 or to 1, a scenario in which we will overall lose.
Caught between a China on the offensive for imposing its model of centralized planning and an unexpectedly hostile America, which wants to grab as it pleases, how will the European Union act? Will we ‘pull ourselves up by the bootstraps’, toward finding a definitive place in the global economy?
The event was organized with the support of The European Parliament to Campus and the Association of Former MEP’s.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Leslie Huckfield, Socialists’ Member of the European Parliament 1984-1989; now Professor of Economics at the Open University in Scotland
Discussant: University Lecturer Claudiu Crăciun, Head of the Political Sciences and European Studies Department, Faculty of Political Sciences, SNSPA
Date: March 11th 2025
Time: 16:00 Bucharest time (GMT+2)
Event type: Hybrid Webinar
YouTube webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWfGna2DWS8.
Support information: agenda, presentation and additional notes.
