30 years in the EU: Looking back into the future

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Guests

  • Nicu Popescu, Distinguished Policy Fellow, ECFR; Former Deputy Prime Minister/Minister for Foreign Affairs and EU Integration, Moldova
  • Engjellushe Morina, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR
  • Michael Kaeding, Professor of European Integration and EU Politics, University of Duisburg-Essen; Director of Studies, College of Europe
  • Jessica Rosencrantz, Minister for EU Affairs (SE)
  • Joakim Strand, Minister for EU Affairs and Ownership Steering (FI)
  • Claudia Plakolm, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Family (AT)

Keynote:

António Costa, President of the European Council

Chaired by

Göran von Sydow, Director of SIEPS/Swedish Institute for European
Policy Studies

30 years ago, Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU. What has been the
economic, political and societal impact of their EU membership? What drives
EU enlargement today? And what may the EU’s next 30 years look like?

We will delve into these questions with our experts, looking first at the scenarios for EU reforms in a changing global order, then discussing the value of EU membership by looking at lessons learned from the past and the drive to accession in the present. This event has been organised by the Permanent Representations of Austria, Finland and Sweden in collaboration with ECFR and SIEPS.

Attendance by invitation only.