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Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.

The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.

The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.

The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.

 

May 25th

10h00-12h00 | Roundtable III

 

Roundtable: State of the Union – Portuguese Members of the European Parliament (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese

 

Moderator: Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL; Journalist TSF)

 

Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP)

Carlos Zorrinho (S&D)

António Marinho e Pinto (ALDE)

João Ferreira (GUE / NGL)

Pedro Mota Soares (CDS-PP) (tbc)

 

 

12h00 – 14h00 – Lunch Break

 

 

14h00 – 15h45 |Parallel Sessions III

 

Panel 7 – Economy, Energy and Geopolitics (Room C201)

 

Moderator: Timea Pal (CEI-IUL)

 

Simon Schlegel (ISG) & Allison Nathan Araujo de Miranda (ISCSP): “EU Global Strategy 2020-2030: the Revival of the Franco-German Consensus-Engine in face of the EU-Lusophone Trade Relations”

Paloma Diaz Topete (College of Europe): “In Varietate Concordia or Divide et Impera? The Security Implications of Chinese FDI in EU Member States”

Natallia Tsiareshchanka (College of Europe; University of Kent): “Nord Stream 2: when geopolitical and commercial interests are at stake”

Zuzanna Gulczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University, College of Europe, University Lille 2): “The energy cooperation between the EU and Algeria – what legal future?”

 

 

 

Panel 8 – Soft & Normative Power (Room C302)

 

Moderator: Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL)

 

Idalina Conde (ISCTE-IUL): “Tables as metaphors. Europe in the World and cultural diplomacy”

Andrea Perilli (College of Europe): “Erasmus student or EU ambassador? People-to-people contact in the European Neighbourhood policy: the cases of Georgia, Ukraine and Tunisia”

Osman Sabri Kiratli (Bogazici University): “When do Voters Choose to Delegate?: Europeans’ Attitudes on Multilateral Aid”

João Espada Rodrigues (CEI-IUL): “EU and Democracy Promotion”

Nezka Figelj (University of Trieste): “EU not only a payer but also a player in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA)”

 

 

 

15h45 – 16h15 – Coffee Break

 

 

16h15 – 17h45 | Parallel Sessions IV

 

Panel 9 – EU and Crisis Management (Room C201)

 

Moderator: Diogo Lemos (CEI-IUL)

 

Csaba Toro (Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): “External institutional partnerships as vehicles of implementation in pursuit of effective and adaptive EU contribution to international crisis management”

Inês Marques Ribeiro (CEI-IUL): “A critical discourse analysis of the normative justification of the EU’s crisis management actorness”

Pablo Arconada Ledesma (Universidad de Valladolid): “European Union’s Missions In Somalia: Ten Years Of Successes And Failures (2008-2018)”

 

 

 

Panel 10 – Political Parties, Populism, Euroscepticism (Room C301)

 

Moderator: Riccardo Marchi (CEI-IUL)

 

Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): “From Consensus to Skepticism?: Attitudes of Polish Society towards European Integration”

Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL): “The SPD in government: a party in crisis”

Pedro Ponte e Sousa (FCSH-UNL & IPRI): “Portuguese foreign relations with the United States in the age of Trump: aligning with the superpower or supporting a European global stance?”

Teona Lavrelashvili (European Commission, KU Leuven) & Alex Andrione-Moylan (KU Leuven): “The populist playbook in the Western Balkans: Case of Serbia and Montenegro”

 

 

18h00 – 20h00 | Roundtable IV

 

Closing Roundtable The Future of Transatlantic Relations (Aud. B203):

 

Moderator: Bárbara Reis (Público)

 

Sven Biscop (Egmont Royal Institute for Foreign Relations, Brussels)

Mike Haltzel (Center for Transatlantic Relations; Johns Hopkins University SAIS)

Carlos Gaspar (IPRI-NOVA)

 

Susana Pedro

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