European Student Think Tank Spanish Parliament Debate

On Friday the 31st of March the European Student Think Tank hosted a European Union debate in Spanish Congress.

 

With the participation of our panel of experts together with the generation of young people that will inherit the European project and upon whom falls the responsibility of reconstructing it, we debated the future of the European Union, analysing from the refugee crisis, to the Monetary Union, to terrorism, journalism and the post-truth era and our European history.

 

In March of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome of the European Union, Europe is possibly facing its most critical moment since the end of World War Two. The nationalisms that threw Europe into the last world war have resurged in a political scape that is more and more polarized, among a crisis of confidence in our institutions and an unsustainable globalization. Now more that ever it is imperative to reform the European Union to be a political counterweight to mere economic integration, in order to preserve longest peace project in history.

 

 

Speakers:

 

Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

Javi López, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, S&D Group

 

Carlota Merchán, Member of Spanish Congress for Madrid, Secretary of cooperation and migration of the PSOE

 

Salvador Llaudes, Analyst in Real Instituto Elcano

 

Estrella Galán, Secretary General of the Spanish Commission of Aid to Refugees

 

Lucía Mbomio, Reporter in Afroféminas and Aquí la Tierra

 

Juan Andrés García Martín, Doctor of History, Professor in the King Juan Carlos University

 

Esther Ortega, Doctor of Philosophy of Science, Professor in Tufts-Skidmore Spain

 

José Manuel Benito Díaz-Mayordomo, Secretary of JEF Madrid

 

Carlota Núñez Strutt, President of the European Student Think Tank

 

Cecilia Passaniti, Events Manager of the European Student Think Tank

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