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Bruno Waterfield is the The Times‘ Brussels correspondent. From 2006 to March 2015, he reported from Brussels for The Daily Telegraph. In total, he has been reporting on European affairs for 17 years; first from Westminster and then, since January 2003, from Brussels. Bruno is also a frequent contributor to spiked and a co-author of a manifesto against what he…

Professor Georgios Varouxakis is a professor of the history of political thought at Queen Mary’s College, University of London [QMUL], where he is also a co-director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought and a programme director of the intercollegiate MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History. Before joining the QMUL, Georgios…

Dr. Funda Tekin is a senior researcher at both Berlin’s Institute for European Politics [IEP] and the Centre international de formation européenne [International Centre for European Education]. At CIFE [Centre international de formation européenne], Funda contributes to the development of the research department, while at IEP she coordinates The Truth about Lies on Europe – a project which researches Eurosceptic…

Dr. Weronika Priesmeyer-Tkocz is a director of studies at the European Academy Berlin [EAB], where she organises seminars, research and information sessions. Her main areas of interest are the transitional processes in Central and Eastern European countries, European Neighbourhood Policy and German-Polish relations. Before working at the EAB, she studied International Relations at Wrocław University, Poland and Political Science at…

All live streams from Lector in Fabula 2015 have now closed, however, highlights of the debates will soon be available on the event page. In the meanwhile, you can find out more information about the series of debates, entitled Europe talks to Europe here and about Lector in Fabula 2015 by clicking here.

Fabio Magnasciutti is an illustrator whose works have been published in La Repubblica, l’Unità, il Fatto Quotidiano and many other Italian publications. You can see some of his work here. Information valid as of autumn 2015.

Marco Tonus is an Italian cartoonist and graphic artist whose works have featured in various publications, including Cuore, Il Vernacoliere, Emme, l’Unità, Il Mucchio selvaggio, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Male, Il Momento, and on the online portals of Scaricabile and La Privata Repubblica. In 2011, he was the only Italian included in the 50 artists shortlisted for Press Cartoon Europe…

Niels Bo Bojesen is a Danish illustrator, who has worked with the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the French weekly Courrier International and the online news portal Vox europ. Niels also illustrates children’s books. Information valid as of autumn 2015.

Onofrio Romano lectures on the sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Bari. His publications include In odore di santità [The Smell of Sanctity] (Cafagna, 2012), La fabbrica di Nichi. Comunità e politica nella postdemocrazia [Nichi’s Factory. Post-democratic Communities and Politics] (Laterza, 2011) and, in English, The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis: Challenging the…

Claudia Chwalisz is a political researcher who currently works as a policy analyst in the OECD’s Directorate for Public Governance. A Crook Public Service fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics and a former senior researcher for Policy Network, Claudia is an expert on democratic innovations, deliberative democracy and populism. She…

Thierry Vissol is a special advisor on media and communications at the Italian representation of the European Commission. An economist and historian, he worked as a university professor in France, Belgium and the United States before joining the European Commission, for whom he founded the radio studio Studio Europa, where he continues to host the programme Un libro per l’Europa…

Peter Molnàr is a senior research fellow at the Central European University’s Centre for Media and Communication Studies. Peter has also been a member of the Hungarian parliament and helped to frame the Hungarian media law of 1996. In 2007, the staged version of his novel, Searchers, was awarded the titles of best alternative and best independent play in Hungary.…