Webinar: July 1, 2016 12:00 – 13:00 (CET)
Brexit raises 3 crucial questions:
- Should the EMU be accelerated to become a centre of gravity within the EU, or slowed down to avoid a centrifugal diaspora? If accelerated, how?
- Should an ‘exit’ country be allowed free entry to the single market and other EU public goods without accepting freedom of movement?
- Should the EU remain as it is, or increase its capacity to offer common public services (Banking Union, border security, research funding, environment, etc.), or limit its scope of activity to the EU single and integrated market?
Background:
Europe has grown out of its crises when reason and solidarity have prevailed, but it has also been devastated by its crises when fear and nationalism have taken the lead. Brexit, in the aftermath of the euro crisis, brings this dichotomy back to the foreground. Since 2010 there have been important advances in the development of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and flexible forms of participation have allowed other EU countries, reluctant to join the euro, to share the basic principles that define the EU and have a common presence in the interdependent global world.
The ADEMU Horizon2020 project focuses on the first question of those listed above. This webinar will address the first two questions and, with time permitting, the third.
Webinar Panel:
Joaquín Almunia (Former Vice-President of the European Commission)
Ramon Marimon (European University Institute and UPF – Barcelona GSE; ADEMU)
Gorgio Monti (European University Institute; ADEMU)
Morten Ravn (University College London; ADEMU)
Moderator:
Annika Zorn (European University Institute; Florence School of Banking & Finance)
The full recording can be viewed below: