EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY: WHAT ARE THE NEXT CHALLENGES? June 26th 2017 – Paris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The "democratic deficit" of the European Union is a hackney 9h00 > 9h30 – Reception - coffee catch all term well known to the disdainers and skeptics of 9h30 > 9h45 – Opening Speech the European construction and as well to some promoters Enrico LETTA, President of the Jacques Delors Institute, Former Italian PM of more transparent and participatory EU, partisans of direct elections for all institutions or of simplification relations 9h45 > 10h30 - Keynote Speech “Democracy in Europe” between institutions. Marielle DE SARNEZ*, EU Affairs Minister At a time when the democratic fracture between the EU and Q&A with the public its peoples is being denounced as one of the main factors 10h30 > 12h00 – Quelle forme de gouvernement pour l’UE ? in the breakdown of the European project, it is necessary to José Maria BENEYTO*, CEU San Pablo shed full light on the debates surrounding many of the Roberto CASTALDI, Director of the CesUE Nuno PICARRA*, Nova Law School of Lisbon democratic features of this hybrid construction, which Konstanty A. WOJTASZCZYK*, Warsaw University sometimes struggles to be described as representative of and listening to its citizens. 12h00 > 13h30 – Lunch break Would the EU be more democratic with a directly elected 13h30 > 15h00 – national referenda & EU: a deadend ? European Commission President? Should the right of Yves BERTONCINI, Director of the Jacques Delors Institute Patrick LE HYARIC*, French MEP legislative initiative be expanded? How can we take into Kalypso NICOLAIDIS*, International Relations Professor at Oxford University account the results of national referenda without denying democracy in the neighboring countries? Can 15h00 > 16h30 - A Multi-level Democracy : What Representatives of the intergovernmental methods be democratic? How can citizens in the EU ? Laura BOLDRINI*, Chairwoman of the Italian Chamber of Representatives citizens be empowered to participate in a more democratic Ulrike GUÉROT*, Politologist, Founder & Director of the European Democracy Lab construction of the EU ? Does the democratic divide exist Elisabeth GUIGOU*, Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French only between "Brussels" and the populations, or between National Assembly the Europeans themselves? Alain LAMASSOURE, French MEP As part of the project “More Europe to overcome the crisis”, Débat animé par Un journaliste du partenariat média The Jacques Delors Institute, in partnership with the 16h30 > 17h00 – Coffee Break Sant'Anna College of Pisa, the University Institute for European Studies in Madrid, the Faculty of Lisbon NOVA and 17h00 > 18h30 - EU Affairs : transparency and information the University of Warsaw, is organizing a day of debate in Gaëtane RICARD-NIHOUL, Chef adjoint de la Représentation en France de la order to provide constructive insights into these issues and Commission européenne Daniel LEBEGUE, President of Transparency International France draw concrete proposals for improvement. Constance LE GRIP*, French MEP, Author of the Legislative Report on « Trade Registration required : click here secrets» Débats animés par les journalistes du partenariat média .