The complex negotiations of the proposed free trade agreement TTIP and the critical debates in many European societies on the expansion of free trade pose an enormous challenge for EU politics. Since the early days of European integration the competence to determine a common external trade policy has been a cornerstone of the European institutions. Does the recent discourse on procedures as well as on substance signify an enduring and far-reaching crisis of the European project itself? What are the consequences if the crisis cannot be adequately addressed and what would a collapse of the negotiations mean for European integration?
This event launches the lecture series “Crisis Talks”, to which the Minister for Federal and European Affairs of the State of Hessen, Lucia Puttrich, and the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World” invite to systematically discuss how crises are perceived in the European Union, how we deal with them and what we have learned from former crises situations.
TTIP – Europäische Außenhandelspolitik in der Krise?
on Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 12:30–14:30
at the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU
Rue Montoyer 21, B-1000 Brussels
(Lunch buffet from 12:30, start of the event at 13:00)
Welcome note
Friedrich von Heusinger, Director of the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalised World”
Keynote speech
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
Dr. Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl, MdEP, Member of the Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Hendrike Kuehl, Head of Brussels Office, Transatlantic Business Council
Johannes Kleis, Head of Communication, European Consumer Protection Organisation BEUC
Moderation
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf
Simultaneous interpretation into English/GermanRSVP by e-mail: veranstaltungen@lv-bruessel.hessen.de
The flyer is available as PDF download.