The EU-Russia Relations in (the) Crisis?

The relationship between the European Union and the Russian Federation has in recent years been shaped by multiple crises from the decline of the oil price to Putin’s increasingly authoritarian style of governing, from the Russian annexation of Crimea to Russia’s intervention in Syria. The Crisis Talk will shed light on the long-term development of the relation between the EU and Russia paying special attention to Ukraine and the EU’s external policy challenges resulting from the Brexit-vote. Do we have to prepare for further escalation? What are the policy options that would help to not only cope with the actual crisis but also to rebuild the relations with Russia?

Crisis Talks by the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a globalised world”

In the European Union crises have always been an important driver for change and progress. Crisis situations allow the heterogeneity of European politics to be transcended through a common perception of a situation as critical and urgent and, therefore, exemplify the need for cooperation. Is the historical experience still valid that crises lead to deeper integration? The lunch lecture series Crisis Talks, organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance Crises in a Globalized World, systematically addresses how crises are perceived in the European Union, how we deal with them and what we have learned from former crises situations.

When: Tuesday. 27th September 2016, 12.30-14-30 pm
(Lunch buffet from 12h30, start of the event at 13h00)

Where: at the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU
Rue Montoyer 21, 1000 Brussels

Presented by: The Minister for Federal and European Affairs of the State of Hessen, Lucia Puttrich and the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalised World” in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Program

Welcome 

Mark Weinmeister
Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen 

Prof Dr Nicole Deitelhoff
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt,
Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalised World” 

Input + Panel discussion 

Dr Anna Veronika Wendland
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe 

Dr Jan C. Behrends
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam 

Rebecca Harms
MEP Chair of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance 

Moderator

Prof Dr Peter Haslinger
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

Simultaneous interpretation into English/German.
RSVP by e-mail: veranstaltungen @lv-bruessel.hessen .de

The flyer is available as PDF download.