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This page featured a De Balie debate on the fate of Europe and saw Ivan Krastev in conversation with Luiza Bialasiewicz and Yoeri Albrecht. The live stream has now finished, but you can find a video recording of the debate on our event page by the end of the week. How will the EU emerge from this bumper election year and…

Luiza Bialasiewicz is the Jean Monnet professor of EU external relations in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Natolin, where she teaches an annual seminar on European geopolitics. Published in 2011, her most recent book, entitled Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European…

Flavia Kleiner is the co-founder and co-president of the liberal political organisation, Operation Libero. Operation Libero was founded by members of the Swiss foreign policy think tank, foraus (its name a play on words, which combines the first letters of its full German title – Forum Außenpolitik – with a similar pronunciation to the word ‘voraus’, which means ‘forwards’ in…

Márton Gulyás is a Hungarian political activist and a co-founder of the leftist activist group Humán Platform. The former managing director of the Krétakör Foundation (2010-2014) is known for his political activism. In 2017, Márton was arrested for throwing paint at the presidential palace in protest against amendments to Hungarian higher education legislation which targeted the Budapest-based Central European University.…

Wendy Goldman is the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. She specialises in the social and political history of Russia and her early work, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (Cambridge…

Philipp Blom is a German historian, novelist, journalist and translator. After obtaining his PhD in Modern History at Oxford University, he moved onto a number of diverse roles and has worked as a journalist, editor and writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes throughout Europe and the US. Blom’s publications have been awarded with several international prizes and his…

Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist, who is well known for her agonistic conception of democracy. Currently, a professor of political theory at Westminster University, she and her co-author Ernesto Laclau are also viewed as one of the main points of reference for Podemos‘ political theory. In her first major publication, Gramsci and Marxist Theory (1979), Chantal Mouffe opened up the…

Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal is a Dutch television journalist, best known as the American correspondent of NOS Journaal. Eelco studied literature in Groningen, specialising in American Studies. Following his studies, he worked at the Dutch Embassy in Washington for a short amount of time before returning to work as a journalist in the Netherlands in 2012. Information valid as of…

Jan-Werner Müller is a German author and a professor of politics at Princeton University, whose research interests include the history of modern political thought, democratic theory, constitutionalism, religion and politics and the normative dimensions of European integration. In 2016, he published What is Populism?, which carefully examines one of the defining political characteristics of our age. He warns that populists…

Ulrike Guérot is a German political thinker. In 2007, she opened the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and has subsequently served as its director. Ulrike is also the founder and director of the European Democracy Lab, a think tank which explores alternative conceptions of the European polity and generates innovative ideas for Europe. In 2013, she…

This page featured a live stream of the Project Forum debate Free speech in Central Europe: where are the boundaries?. This debate has now finished but a full recording of the live stream (discussion in English and German, with English and Slovak interpretation) can be enjoyed here and a highlights video will be produced and placed on the debate’s event…

Stephan Eibel Erzberg is an Austrian author, playwright and poet. He undertook formal commercial training and studied sociology, originally becoming a payroll accountant, before taking over a radio series about authors, entitled Literatur im Untergrund [Underground Literature], in 1976. Since then he has himself been active within the literary field, producing a number of plays, novels and poetry collections. His…