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2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard – Back to Square One


November 5, 2018

Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard – Back to Square One


November 5, 2018

Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

November 5, 2018

Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
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The Summit on the Future of Europe is an initiative of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe. The fifth annual Summit is a partnership of CES, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute, European Stability Initiative (ESI) and Central European University (CEU).

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Sessions

2018 Summit | Welcome & Introduction
8:45am - 9:00am
2018 Summit | Welcome & Introduction
  • Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
Summit 2018 | Panel 1: The Transatlantic Freeze
9:00am - 10:30am
Summit 2018 | Panel 1: The Transatlantic Freeze
  • Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Karen Donfried – Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State (2021-2023); President, German Marshall Fund of the United States (2014-2021)
  • Daniela Schwarzer – Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy & Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundations
  • Chair Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Summit 2018 | Panel 2:  Authoritarianism in the EU
10:45am - 12:15pm
Summit 2018 | Panel 2: Authoritarianism in the EU
  • Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • John Shattuck – Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Harvard Kennedy School; President Emeritus, Central European University
  • Monica Macovei – Member of the European Parliament, European Conservatives and Reformists, Romania
  • Chair Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University
Summit 2018 | A Keynote Address by Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018)
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Summit 2018 | A Keynote Address by Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018)
  • Sigmar Gabriel – Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (2018), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
Summit 2018 | Panel 3:  Challenges of European Integration and Disintegration
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Summit 2018 | Panel 3: Challenges of European Integration and Disintegration
  • John Dalhuisen – Senior Fellow, European Stability Initiative (ESI)
  • Kyriakos Pierrakakis – Minister of Digital Governance, Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Greece
  • Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair José María Beneyto – Professor of International Public Law and International Relations and Director, Institute for European Studies
Summit 2018 | Panel 4: The Current  State of Europe: Views from the Newsroom
4:15pm - 5:45pm
Summit 2018 | Panel 4: The Current State of Europe: Views from the Newsroom
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