Next Left: a Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question1 FEPS
Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question1 FEPS Next Left –– Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo – Fundación Salvador Allende – - Renner Institut - IGLP Harvard Law School Santiago de Chile, 19th – 21st November 2014 Wednesday, 19th November 2014 Arrival of the participants 21.00 Welcome Dinner Venue: Hotel Plaza San Francisco Thursday, 20th November 2014 09.30 – 11.00 Opening Venue: Salón Sesiones del Senado, Ex Congreso Speakers: Isabel Allende, President of Senate Massimo D’Alema, President of FEPS Alfred Gusenbauer, Chair of the FEPS Next left Research Programme David Kennedy, Professor, Director of IGLP HLS Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break Sala de Lectura, Ex Congreso Nacional. 1 The scientific report of the seminar will be written by Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, FEPS Next Left Focus Group Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile 11.00 – 13.00 Panel 1: A Challenge of Building Prosperous Societies: a progressive agenda to fight inequalities. Existing, growing and emerging ineQualities have been in the focus of the “Dialogue of Dialogue” since the first seminar “The Left: Globalised Social Democracy in South and North” (held at Watson Institute at Brown University in 2010). In the context of the European Union, the initial assessment was that the imbalances had become disproportionally large already before the crisis of 2007 - 2008; however they have been further enhanced on the course of false ‘rescue’ policies. Austerity has induced even more devastating, erosive processes, which pushed many into impoverishment. This has been paired with the phenomenon of continuing fragmentation and polarisation of societies, within which both the sense of solidarity and beliefs in the transformative character of the welfare state as a pledge, are declining.
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