Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies
Institut d'Etudes Européennes et Internationales du Luxembourg
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Conference
Europe in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Jean Monnet Building of the European Commission, Luxembourg
Friday, 18 May
I. Plenary Session: Challenges
Panel 1: Threats to the prevailing political and socio-economic consensus:
fragility of the social model; rise of the extreme right; erosion of the middle-class; growing inequalities; decay of the political ethos
Moderator: François Tremeaud
Panellists: Christopher Coker, Jan Kavan, Lothar Rühl, Csaba Tabajdi
Panel 2: The eurozone crisis:
Implosion or muddling through? Saving the euro – at what price? A multi-speed EU?
Moderator: Mario Hirsch
Panellists: G. Michael Ambrosi, Jean-Pierre Pagé, Theo Waigel, Mingqi Xu