Bad Neighbourhoods: Europe’s crisis and the challenges of its peripheries

In cooperation with ACCESS EUROPE

Event

Europe is confronted with a dual crisis: an internal and an external one. The internal crisis of the European project is mainly related to that of the euro and more generally to the divisive effects of the economic and financial crisis.

For the last two decades the European agenda has been dominated by two issues: the euro (deepening) and the Eastern enlargement (widening). The latter, the overcoming of the post-war East-West divide, has been largely successful. The former has revealed another divide inside the EU, between North and South. The external crisis facing the EU constitutes the simultaneous implosion of its Eastern and Southern neighborhoods. The Ukrainian ‘Euromaidan’ crisis and the Russian annexation of Crimea, the emergence of Islamic State in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Both have shattered the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of democratization attempts. Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Relations Luiza Bialasiewicz (UvA, Humanities Faculty) will comment on the lecture.

About Jacques Rupnik

Jacques Rupnik was born in Prague in 1950, educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Director of Research at CERI and Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Rupnik has been an advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel (1990-1992) and to the European Commission 2007 - 2010. His latest two books are 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system (2013) and Géopolitique de la democratization, l’Europe et ses voisinage (2014). 

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