6 May 2014 (Tuesday), 10.00-14.15
Polish Institute of International Affairs
1a Warecka Street, Warsaw
Conference room, 1st floor
Polish Institute of International Affairs and Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw are pleased to invite you to the seminar on EU’s legitimacy crisis.
The concept of the EU-legitimacy crisis can be found in many political speeches and expert analysis. The forthcoming European elections constitute a good opportunity to address the issue both from the national and European perspective. With representatives of various think-tanks we will look at the scale of the phenomenon, ways of manifestation, differences between the member states and narratives of the national debates towards the strengthening of euro-sceptical forces. We shall discuss also possible and already implemented measures to counteract euro-scepticism on the level of the European and national parliaments. We will try to predict the consequences of a greater number of euro-sceptical deputies for the functioning of the European parliament itself and its cooperation with other EU-institutions.
The meeting will be held in English. Those wishing to attend are kindly requested to confirm by 5 May 2014 via phone, /70, or e-mail, konferencje@pism.pl.
Conference Agenda (download in a PDF file)
10.00 – 10.10 Welcoming remarks
Roderick Parkes, Head of EU Programme, PISM
Irene Hahn-Fuhr, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw
10.10 – 11.25 Legitimacy via prosperity – is the EU’s output legitimacy gone forever?
Thomas Petersen, Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach
Adriana Skorupska, PISM
Chair: Michał Sutowski, Krytyka Polityczna
11.25 – 11.35 Coffee break
11.35 – 12.50 Legitimacy by the European Parliament – credible innovations or power games?
Brendan Donnelly, Federal Trust
David O'Leary, Europe Decides
Agata Gostyńska, PISM
Chair: Beata Płomecka, Brussels correspondent for Polskie Radio
12.50 – 13.00 Break
13.00 – 14.15 Legitimacy by national parliaments – fruitful coopetition or renationalization of European politics?
Valentin Kreilinger, Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors
Tomasz Woźnicki, Chancellery of the Sejm (tbc)
Ryszarda Formuszewicz, PISM
Chair and final remarks: Roderick Parkes, PISM