Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2020 um 19:00 Uhr
Online-Veranstaltung von Transform Europe
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 among 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 hosts a series of web interviews with leading personalities of parties of the European Left. The second season of our interviews starts with Katarina Peović
, MP of the Croatian Parliament with Radnička Fronta
on 20 October at 19.00 CET.
The event will be interactive – after the scheduled interview the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions to 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.
Join our web interview with Katarina Peović, recently elected MP for the Left in the Croatian Parliament.
The language of the interview will be English.
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Katarina Peović
is the first anticapitalist MP in the Croatian Parliament, elected with Radnička fronta (Worker’s front) and Green-Left coalition. She is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies, Rijeka, Croatia. She holds a BA and masters degree in Comparative literature and MA and Ph.D. of Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb. She published two studies Mediji i kultura. Ideologija medija nakon decentralizacije (2012) and Marx u digitalnom dobu. Dijalektički materijalizam na vratima tehnologije (2016). She has written on a relation of contemporary technology and philosophy for Crisis & Critique, Badiou Studies, Springer, John Benjamins Press, Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory and others.
interviewed by:
Walter Baier
economist in Vienna, 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 until 2020 he has been the coordinator of the network transform! europe.
and
Angelina Giannopoulou
political scientist, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme „European Integration and the strategic perspectives of the radical Left“ and collaborator of Nicos Poulantzas Institute. Since 2019, she is a commune councillor in the municipality of Athens. Weniger anzeigen
