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Precarious Europe: Italian political science up against current challenges

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Wednesday, 8 May, 2013 - 09:00 to 18:30

Dramatic happenings in Greece and serious problems that the other countries in the South Europe are also competing with, have disclosed the limits of the current European institutional asset and the difficulties deriving from them for keeping the Eurozone, but also for overcoming the economic and social crisis that the continent is going through. Although the EU is the second economy and the second saving centre in the world, the devastating uncertainty and rigour excess that have characterised its action since 2008 and thereafter, are dangerously wearing away the trust of the European citizens – in a moment when Europe is being pursued by BRICS, by the United States and the nearest emerging countries like Turkey and the Gulf countries.

In the context of this scenario and up against the obvious inadequacy of technocratic Europe, the unsolved knots of the banking, fiscal, economic and political union have finally been introduced into political agenda – a crucial passage to complete the picture of powers attributed to the Union and to allow Europe to play a role in the manipulating and increasingly globalised world. The relaunch or decline of the continent depends on the answer to these internal and external challenges, with a risk of dispersing the benefits of integration which has been built with such difficulty in the last sixty years. Europe is hanging in the balance between two possible scenarios: a) dangerous retreat on restricted nazionalist and localist strategies; b) beginning of a process of effective political integration and democratisation of the governing system. In the face of this dilemma, the imminent 2014 European elections constitute a test desk in order to verify if the political parties and social forces are able to provide themselves with a real European policy agenda. The integration process crisis represents also a challenge for the political science and researchers who deal with the European themes in this setting. The convention intends to offer an occasion to compare and reflect in order to examine in depth both the meanders of the Union's internal policy and its reflections on difficult relations with the rest of the world.

Program

9.15-9.30: Official welcome -  Cecilia Corsi, President of Scuola di Scienze Politiche  “Cesare Alfieri”

9.30-9.40: Questions and scenarios: presenting the day Valeria Fargion, University of Florence

Panel 1: Challenges and opportunities of political integration: towards an active citizenship
Chair: Mario Telò, Université libre de Bruxelles e LUISS Guido Carli di Roma. 9.40-10.00: A union of citizens and states:  towards the EU federation?  Roberto Castaldi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa.
10.00-10.20:  From national political parties to a European party system, Edoardo Bressanelli, LUISS Guido Carli di Roma.
10.20-10.40: New Questions are old Questions. Europe as Gemeinschaft .or Gesellschaft?, Giorgio Natalicchi, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
10.40-11.00: Discussant: Paolo Ponzano, Senior Fellow Schuman Centre, IUE e Consigliere Speciale del
Vice President of the EU Commission .

11.00-11.20: Debate

11.20-11.40 Coffee break
Panel 2: The EU borders
Chair: Marco Mascia, Università degli Studi di Padova

11.40-12.00: Limits and successes of the EU foreign policy in the Balkans, Elena Baracani, Università degli Studi di Bologna.
12.00-12.20: The EU in the Mediterranean: beyond Arabic spring, Stefania Panebianco, Università degli Studi di Catania.
12.20-12.40: The EU and the former Soviet territory, Serena Giusti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
12.40-13.00: Discussant:  Emidio Diodato, Università per stranieri di Perugia.

13.00-13.20 Dibattito

13.20-14.30 Lunch

Panel 3: The EU: A global actor?
Chair: Francesca Longo, Università degli Studi di Catania
14.30-14.50: The EU seen by others, Sonia Lucarelli, Università di Bologna (sede di Forlì).
14.50-15.10: The Redesigning of European Armed Forces from Afghanistan to Libya, Francesco Moro, Università degli Studi di Firenze e Fabrizio Coticchia, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa.
15.10-15.30: Losing out to the BRICS: EU Development Cooperation in Africa, Valeria Fargion e Marco Mayer Università degli Studi di Firenze
15.30-15.50: Discussant: Luciano Bozzo, Università degli Studi di Firenze
15.50-16.10: Debate

16.10-16.30: Coffee Break

Roundtable: Quo vadis Europe?

16.30-18.00
Moderator : Niccolò Rinaldi, Eurodeputato , Vice President ALDE group 

Participants:
On. Giuliano Amato,
Sergio Fabbrini, Università degli Studi di Trento.
Philippe C. Schmitter, EUI Florence
Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Università Cattolica di Milano.
Mario Telò, Université libre de Bruxelles e LUISS Guido Carli di Roma.

 

For further information please contact

Organiser: Prof. Valeria Fargion (valeria.fargion@unifi.it)

Secretary: Sorina Soare (ssoare@unifi.it)

Polo delle Scienze Sociali - Università di Firenze
via delle Pandette, 32
Firenze
Italy
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