Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2020 von 18:00 bis 20:00
The Corona-virus has hit the EU unprepared, but in different ways and with different effects depending on the countries. Most tragic were the effects on those countries whose healthcare and social systems have been emaciated by decades of austerity policies. Thus, the pandemic has increased inequalities not only inside the states but also between the Member States of the EU. This presents the parties of the radical left with a challenge and calls for a re-examination of their strategies.
Transform! europe is hosting a series of web interviews with leading personalities of parties of the European Left. The six interviewee will be Clémentine Autain, member of the French Parliament (La France insoumise)
The interview will be in French with simultaneous translation to English. ?? ??
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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aX-KrYReTu6BzOOb1g7HRg
The event will be interactive – after an initial interview the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions of our guest.
The main focus of all discussions will be the impact of the pandemic on the economic, social, political, and cultural life of particular countries. We have seen that the EU’s failure to address the health crisis and provide support to the most affected states has changed the way the Union is perceived in parts of Europe. To what extent and with what consequences does this apply to the countries whose parties our interviewees represent? How can the left cope with the economic and social crisis and the recession that is very likely to come in its wake? How do the left parties connect their national strategies to global problems, in particular the influx of refugees and the answers urgently required by the global environmental crisis.
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Clémentine Autain is a French politician and journalist. She is a member of Ensemble, a political organisation founded in 2013 and and former components of Front de Gauche. In June 2017, she was elected Member of National Assembly for La France Insoumise. She is publishing director of the magazine Regards.fr and she was co-secretary of the Fondation Copernic.
interviewed by:
Yann Le Lann, French sociologist and Associate Professor at the University of Lille, member of the Research Centre ‘Individus, Epreuves, Sociétés’ (CeRIES). He specialises in labour and wage issues. He is President of Espaces Marx, France, and member of the Board of transform! europe.
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Walter Baier, economist in Vienna, he was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 he has been the Coordinator of the network transform! europe.
