Europe Confronting Eurosceptics

For the inaugural debate of the European Challenges series, we invited speakers, both pro-Europe and Eurosceptics, to address the motivations that support eurosceptic discourses.

The Speakers

Maja Bajevic, artist, Marcel Duchamp Prize nominee 2017

Mauve Carbonell, historian, University of Aix-Marseille, specialist on political and economic construction of the EU.

Thierry Chopin, political scientist, Robert Schuman Foundation and Institut Jacques Delors, author of Le clivage politique de l’Europe (Larcier, 2015)

Cédric Durand, economist, University of Paris 13, author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future (Verso, 2017)

Thomas Serrier, historian, University of Lille 3 and Europa-Universität, Francfort (Oder), who co-directed the collective publication EUROPA. Notre histoire (Les Arènes, 2017)

Moderator Nicolas Truong, journalist, Le Monde

This debate opened the international symposium New populisms and diverse paths of Euroscepicism, organized by the Evens Foundation, on 30 November 2017 at the Pompidou Center.

Conveners: Monique Canto-Sperber, CNRS and Anna C. Zielinska, University of Lorraine

For the inaugural debate of the European Challenges series, we invited speakers, both pro-Europe and Eurosceptics, to address the motivations that support eurosceptic discourses.

The Speakers

Maja Bajevic, artist, Marcel Duchamp Prize nominee 2017

Mauve Carbonell, historian, University of Aix-Marseille, specialist on political and economic construction of the EU.

Thierry Chopin, political scientist, Robert Schuman Foundation and Institut Jacques Delors, author of Le clivage politique de l’Europe (Larcier, 2015)

Cédric Durand, economist, University of Paris 13, author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future (Verso, 2017)

Thomas Serrier, historian, University of Lille 3 and Europa-Universität, Francfort (Oder), who co-directed the collective publication EUROPA. Notre histoire (Les Arènes, 2017)

Moderator Nicolas Truong, journalist, Le Monde

This debate opened the international symposium New populisms and diverse paths of Euroscepicism, organized by the Evens Foundation, on 30 November 2017 at the Pompidou Center.

Conveners: Monique Canto-Sperber, CNRS and Anna C. Zielinska, University of Lorraine