Europe's Future in a Turbulent World

The uprisings in the Arab world and the U.S.-European military intervention in Libya are currently driving transatlantic policy discussions. However, the ongoing Eurozone crisis and the fate of debt-laden countries remain issues of concern for both Europeans and Americans. Other critical challenges are also consuming Europe’s attention: reversing the economic slowdown and regaining competitiveness; dealing with rising populism and public opinion backlash against the influx of North African refugees; and forging a common foreign policy that can both respond to changing political and economic developments and enhance the European Union’s role in a new multipolar world.
 
On May 26, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America and the Center on the United States at Brookings (CUSE) will host experts and top officials from both sides of the Atlantic for the 2011 CUSE annual conference. Panelists will explore critical issues shaping the future of transatlantic relations, from the euro crisis to how the United States and Europe can craft a common response to the wave of democratic uprisings in the Arab world.
 
After each panel, participants will take audience questions.
   
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Panel 1, 9:00am: The Eurozone: From Crisis to Consolidation?
  
Moderator
Justin Vaïsse, Senior Fellow and Director of Research Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
  
Panelists
Donald Kohn, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Edwin M. (Ted) Truman, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Lucas Papademos, Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Beatrice Weder Di Mauro, German Council of Economic Experts, Professor, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz
  
Panel 2, 11:00am: Europe's Power in the World
  
Moderator
Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution

Panelists
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Member of the European Parliament, The Greens–European Free Alliance
Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
  
12.30 pm: Buffet Lunch
   
Panel 3, 1:30pm: The Arab Spring in Transatlantic Perspective

Moderator
Jonathan Laurence, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
 
Panelists
Elizabeth Dibble, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Hugues Mingarelli, Managing Director for the Middle East and Southern Neighborhood, European External Action Service
Ana Palacio, Founding Partner, Palacio y Asociados
  
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This event is a cooperation of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America and the Brookings Institution
 
For more information, please contact Torben Hennigs at torben@boell.org