02: Social Cohesion in a Wider Europe
Supported by ERSTE Stiftung
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in englischer SpracheThe ongoing crisis has hit many European countries, further aggravating severe social problems. The Southern Member States face the toughest challenges, from illegal migration to poverty reduction. Faced with these challenges, we have to ask how it will be possible to finance the welfare state in the long run. Indeed, these challenges show that the future of the entire European project depends on the strength of our social cohesion. How can we guarantee social stability in different European regions? How will we deal with migration in the future? Do we as Europeans share a common responsibility for those in need?
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Niccolo MILANESE
Co-President, European Alternatives, London
| 2002-2005 | MA Philosophy St John's College, Cambridge UK |
| 2005-2007 | Senior Editor, The Liberal Magazine, UK |
| since 2007 | Founder and Co-President of European Alternatives |
| 2007-2009 | MPhil Etudes Politiques, EHESS Paris, France |
| since 2011 | Lead Trainer, YAANI - Young Arab Analysts Network International Network of Policy Analysts, British Council Morocco |
| since 2012 | Elected Board Member, Cultural Innovators Network |
Slawomir SIERAKOWSKI
Director, Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw
| Slawomir Sierakowski is a Polish sociologist and political commentator, who founded and leads Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), the biggest eastern European movement of liberal intellectuals, artists and activists, with branches in Ukraine and Russia. He is the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw and the president of the Stanislaw Brzozowski Association, overseeing its publishing house; its online daily "Dziennik Opinii"; cultural centres in Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Cieszyn, in Poland, and in Kiev, Ukraine; and 20 local clubs. | |
| Mr. Sierakowski has been awarded fellowships from Yale, Princeton and Harvard and from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written for many journals and newspapers, including The Guardian, ElPaís, Haaretz and die tageszeitung, Dissent, Transit, A2. He contributes a monthly column to the Polish leading daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" and to the international edition of the New York Times. Mr Sierakowski has been ranked as one of the most influential Poles by "Polityka", "Wprost" and"Newsweek". | |
| https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/slawomir-sierakowski |
M.Sc. Franz Karl PRÜLLER
Senior Advisor, Management Board, ERSTE Stiftung, Vienna
| 1986-1988 | BA International Studies, Webster University, St Louis, MO |
| 1988-1996 | Emergency Aid Coordinator, Caritas Austria, Vienna |
| 1996-2005 | Secretary General, International Programmes and Project Department, Caritas Austria, Vienna |
| 2005-2012 | Director, Social Development Programmes, ERSTE Foundation, Vienna |
| 2008 | M.Sc. Development Management, Open University, England |
| 2012-2016 | Member of the Board, ERSTE Foundation, Vienna |
| since 2016 | Senior Advisor, Management Board, ERSTE Foundation, Vienna |
