16: Redesigning European Welfare States: Rebalancing the Roles of EU and Member States
In cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung
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in englischer SpracheTrends such as social upheaval, intensifying global competition, large-scale migration and ageing populations are all putting European welfare states to the test. They need an urgent overhaul to meet the needs of the 21st century. Where might we find innovative governance solutions to the challenge of sustaining welfare states?
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Ph.D. Catherine BARNARD
Professor of European Union and Employment Law, University of Cambridge
| 1991-1995 | Lecturer, Law, University of Southampton |
| 1996-2000 | Lecturer, University of Cambridge |
| 2000-2004 | Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge |
| 2004-2008 | Reader, European Union Law, University of Cambridge |
| since 2008 | Professor, EU Law and Employment Law, University of Cambridge |
Georges DASSIS
President, EESC - European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels
| Trade-union activist in Greece from the age of 15 | |
| 1967-1974 | Activist against the colonels' regime in Greece |
| 1976-1980 | Permanent member of the national staff of the Belgian General Federation of Labour (FGTB) |
| since 1981 | Representative of the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC, formerly ICFTU) and to the International Labour Office (ILO) |
| since 1982 | Member of the Executive Committee of the ETUC |
| 1981-1990 | Member of the EESC from 1981 to 1990 and from 2002 |
| 1986-1990 | President of the regional section of the EESC |
| 1990 | Founder member of the Labour Institute of the GSEE (1990) and secretary for international relations |
| 2004-2008 | President of the ECO section of the EESC |
| 2008-2015 | President of the Workers' Group of the EESC |
| 2015-2018 | President of the EESC |
Dr. Ulrike GUEROT
Head of Department, European Policy and the Study of Democracy, Danube University Krems - University for Continuing Education; Director and Founder, European Democracy Lab, European School of Governance, Krems
| Since 2016 Ulrike Guérot is Professor at Danube-University Krems and head of the department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. Core activities of the department are both interdisciplinary research and network building. The main goal is to initiate a citizen-oriented and sustainable debate on key issues surrounding today’s Europe. Since September 2017 Ulrike Guérot is holder of Alfred-Grosser visiting professorship at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. Furthermore, she founded the Berlin based think tank "European Democracy Lab. The lab seeks to rethink and redesign European democracy. Currently, the lab is building a campaign platform advocating for both the principle of political equality beyond nation states and the empowerment of regional stakeholders within the EU-setup. | |
| Prior to her work in Krems and Berlin, Ulrike Guérot built up the office and served as Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and lectured at various internationally renowned universities, such as Bucerius Law School Hamburg, John Hopkins University, INSEAD Singapore and Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt. In addition she conducted research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) on the topics of democracy and democratization. In April 2016 her first book 'Why Europe needs to become a republic! A political utopia' was published by Dietz. The principal idea of the book is the creation of a ‘European Republic’ based on the concept of equality in front of the law in a union of citizens. Her latest work 'The new civil war - the open Europe and its enemies', published by Ullstein is a bestseller in Germany. In this cutting edge pamphlet she describes the great divide throughout the European societies. She has been publishing widely in Germany, English and French on European, transatlantic and global issues in various newspapers, journals and books. In times of turmoil and crisis, Ulrike Guérot aims at creating a sustainable blueprint for Europe in the 21st century, which puts the citizen first. |
Eric THODE
Director International Fora and Trends, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh
| Advanced degree in Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany | |
| 1996-2000 | Research Assistant, Chair for Economics and Social Policy, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| since 2001 | Lecturer for international economics and labor market policy, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, Germany: | |
| 2001-2006 | Project manager, Economics and Social Affairs Division |
| 2006-2015 | Senior Expert for socio-economic and labour market issues |
| since 2015 | Director International Forums and Trends |
| 2005-2008 | Lecturer for international economics and economic policy, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany |
| since 2009 | Policy Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, Germany |
