Programme

16:00 – 16:15 – Opening
Pedro Norton (Trustee Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
Bernardo Pires de Lima (Conference Director)

16:15 – 17:45 – Europe and the Return of Great Power Politics
• Moderator: Ricardo Alexandre (Portugal, Journalist, RTP)
• Ali Aslan (Deutschland, Journalist, Deutsche Welle TV)
• Erik Brattberg (Sweden, Director Europe, Carnegie Endowment)
• Dimitar Bechev (Bulgary, Research Fellow, University of North Carolina)
• Georgina Wright (United Kingdom, Research Assistant and Coordinator, Chatham House)
• Kinga Brudzinska (Poland, Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC Policy Institute)

17:45 – 18.00 Coffee Break

18:00 – Presentation of the Book: «Europe’s B Side: a journey to 28 capitals», by Bernardo Pires de Lima 
• Bárbara Bulhosa (Tinta da China) & Bernardo Pires de Lima

About the Conference

Next May 9th, Europe day, we will debate how the return of geopolitics and the affirmation of the great powers have conditioned the management of European crises and the external relations between EU member states. Russia’s revisionism, China’s strategic expansion, US closure, and United Kingdom’s withdrawal converge in time, placing an existential pressure on the European Union. This international seminar, entitled Europe and the Return of Great Power Politics, brings to Lisbon a new generation of European opinion makers to discuss the main trends in geopolitics and globalization as well as the responses that are being given by the European Union.