Tuesday, July 16, 2024
VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
Strategic readings on the EU’s future
Speaker: Dr Franck Debié, Director of the Library of the European Parliament
Moderator: James Elles, Director, Ideas Network 2030.
> Introduction
> Meeting videos
> Speakers bios
Introduction
The European elections have become a moment for resetting the long term agenda of the European Union. To help candidates and the other political parties position themselves on long term issues, a number of forward-looking documents have been published. In the case of European institutions, Member States have drawn up the European Council’s Strategic agenda – a kind of strategic contract with the next Commission – and testing ideas for the future, agreed on 27 June. The European inter-institutional foresight system (ESPAS) published its own document on 15 April. Other documents from President Macron and Mario Draghi are also available.
In this online event, Dr Franck Debié, Director of the Library of the European Parliament provided a personal guided tour through these forward looking texts highlighting key aspects influencing the EU’s future to 2030, all fresh from the print by Macron, Draghi, Letta … or the European inter-institutional foresight system (ESPAS).
You can read the reports by clicking on the links below
– Emmanuel Macron: Europe—It Can Die. A New Paradigm at The Sorbonne – Groupe d’études géopolitiques
– ESPAS-Global-Trends-to-2040-Choosing-Europes-Future.pdf
Meeting videos
Click above to watch James Elles introduction (3 min video).
Click above to watch the main speech by Dr Franck Debié (36 min video).
Click above to watch the questions to Dr Franck Debié (19 min video).
Speakers bios
Dr Franck Debié is the Director of the Library of the European Parliament. He is an Associate Professor of Geography and Geopolitics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has previously worked on peace processes and European affairs. He was the policy director of the European Idea network of think tanks and has worked with the EPP-group in the European Parliament. He has also been the Deputy Head of the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the European Parliament.
James Elles was a British Conservative member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2014. He is Co-founder of the European Internet Forum (EIF) and the Founder and Chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN). He is also the Honorary President of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) and Director of the Ideas Network 2030.