Ivan Krastev: Europe’s Futures
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: June 11, 2018, 19:30 – 21:00
Admission free, registration required via this FORM.
Why the EU should not be taken for granted, why the response to the refugee crisis will define its future and why elites in Brussels are so mistrusted were the questions Ivan Krastev tried to answer in his book After Europe and will discuss during this event at the Vaclav Havel Library.
The paradox of 2017 was that while the EU failed to solve the crises that were tearing it apart the previous year, the interplay between them created the conditions that helped the bloc to survive. The union is as fragile as ever, but its chances of enduring are much better than they were a year ago.
Although none of the problems that have fractured the union have gone away, over the course of the year, European economies grew, unemployment declined and opinion polls across the continent registered restored trust in Europe’s future. Unexpectedly, in 2017, it was the pro-Europeans who took the initiative.
How has the EU succeeded today in recovering its appeal, while failing singularly to solve any of the crises that threaten to destroy it?
Ivan Krastev is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He sits on numerous boards and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Organised by The Vaclav Havel Library in cooperation with the Bulgarian Embassy in the Czech Republic. The discussion will be held in English and simultaneously interpreted into Czech.