L'EUROPE ICI ET MAINTENANT
ÅÂÐÎÏÀ ÒÓÊ È ÑÅÃÀ
EUROPE HERE AND NOW
This is an initiative of the French Institute in Sofia implemented in partnership with:
--- BECSA,
--- The Red House,
--- Radio France Internationale, and
--- the Centre for Liberal Strategies.
It envisages holding monthly open lectures of eminent French public figures - academics, intellectuals, experts, politicians, etc. with the aim of becoming a platform for dialogue between France and Bulgaria in the context of both countries' common European destiny. The lectures are followed by a comment made by a Bulgarian discussant and an open debate. All lectures are held in the Red House. They are provided with a simultaneous interpretation French-Bulgarian, and are recorded on video (the actual event) and audio (the interpretation of the debate into Bulgarian). Excerpts of these discussions are broadcast in the weekly programme of Radio France Internationale.
PROGRAMME FOR 2008
(Information below includes time / speaker / topic / discussant)
28 January
Prof. Erwan LANNON, professor at the College of Europe - Bruges
La Bulgarie et les strategies de voisinage de l'UE
(Bulgaria and the EU's neighbourhood strategies)
Assoc. Prof. Dinko DINKOV, BECSA president
11 February
Jean QUATREMER, journalist at the French daily newspaper "Liberation"
Comment se construit l’Europe au Quotidien? Immersion dans les coulisses de Bruxelles
(How is Europe constructed day by day? Immersion in the corridors of Brussels)
Zornitsa VENKOVA, journalist, editor-in-chief of international news at the Bulgarian National Television
24 March
Jean-Arnault DERENS,
(topic t.b.c.)
(discussant t.b.c.)
24 April
Michel FOUCHER
L’Union politique européenne: un territoire, des frontières et des horizons
(European political union: a territory, frontiers and horizons)
12 May
Prof. Olivier COSTA, professor at the University of Bordeaux, France, and the College of Europe - Bruges
Elections europeennes: Pourquoi les citoyens se detournent-ils du Parlement europeen?
(European elections: Why do citizens turn away from the European Parliament?)
Assoc. Prof. Dobrin KANEV, BECSA member
2 June
Dr. Dominique MOISI
L’Union européenne et la crise au Moyen-Orient
(The EU and the Middle East crisis)
22 September
Prof. Dr. Pascal PERRINEAU
Le retour de l’extrême droite en Europe: symptômes d’une crise de la modernité?
(The Return of the extreme right in Europe: symproms of a crisis of modernity?)
PHOTOS FROM THE DISCUSSIONS
Discussion on 28 January 2008
From right to left: Prof. Erwan Lannon (speaker),
Toni Nikolov (RFI, moderator), Assoc. Prof. Dinko Dinkov (discussant)
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Discussion on 11 February 2008
From right to left: Jean Quatremer (speaker),
Toni Nikolov (RFI, moderator), Zornitsa Venkova (discussant)
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