THE CONFERENCE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED ON THE LPD WEBSITE #uspol_lpd photo by areporter/shutterstock.com , Euroscepticism, and the Future of Europe: A Symposium

MARCH 18-19, 2019 I VILLA SASSETTI

Monday, March 18

9:15 am Welcome Remarks Larry Wolff, Executive Director, Remarque Institute; Co-Director NYU

9:30-11:30 EUROSCEPTIC UK AND IMMINENT BREXIT How does Euroscepticism continue to shape the politics of Brexit since 2016? Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour Party, 2010-2015 Agnès Alexandre-Collier, CNRS, Paris; Maison Française d’Oxford Ed Vaizey MP, Conservative Party Minister for Culture, 2010-2016 Marisa Bellack, Europe Editor, The Washington Post Sir Stephen Wall, British Representative to the EU, 1995-2000

11:30 Lunch 1:00-3:00 pm EXIT AND SCEPTICISM: THE VIEW FROM BRUSSELS What does the growth of political Euroscepticism in the member countries, and the possibility of future exits from the Union, mean for the future of the Union in Brussels? Antoine Ripoll, European Parliament Liaison Office with the US Congress Catharina Sørensen, Think Tank EUROPA, Copenhagen Renaud Dehousse, President, European University Institute Tamás Meszerics, MEP, Hungary, Group of the Greens George Ross, Sociology Professor Emeritus, Brandeis; Jean Monnet C hair, Montreal

3:00 Coffee break 3:30-5:30 MEDIA, ELECTIONS, AND EUROSCEPTICISM What role does the media play in creating the public forum for European unity and European scepticism, especially in the context of political elections and referendums? Alexandra Borchardt, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford Federico Fubini, Corriere della Sera Michaela Wiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nicolò Conti, Università Unitelma Sapienza, Rome; NYU Florence Giorgia Giovannetti, Economics, Università Firenze; NYU Florence Roberto D’Alimonte, Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome; NYU Florence

Tuesday, March 19

10:00-12:00 am ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES OF SCEPTICISM How do the economic circumstances of the Euro and the Union produce sentiment for and against the ? Giampiero M. Gallo, Italian Court of Auditors, NYU Florence Marco Simoni, LUISS Business School; Former Economic Adviser to the Italian Government Molly Nolan, History Professor Emerita, New York University Christian Martin, Comparative Politics, Kiel; European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU Sergio Fabbrini, Dean of Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome 12:00 pm Lunch 2:00-4:00 EUROSCEPTICISM AND POST-COLD WAR ENLARGEMENT How should we understand the emergence and importance of Euroscepticism in the post-communist countries that have joined the Union since 2004? Jiri Pehe, Director, NYU Prague Istvan Rev, Director, Open Society Archives; Central European University, Vienna Dorota Dakowska, Political Science, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Larry Wolff, Executive Director, Remarque Institute; Co-Director NYU Florence Hadas Aron, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU Jacques Rupnik, Political Science, , Paris 4:00-4:30 Concluding Discussion 4:30-5:30 Reception

With the generous support of The Remarque Institute and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

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