10. Juni 2020; 18:00 bis 20:00 Uhr

Der spanische Abgeordnete von Unidas podemos und Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei Enrique Santiago im Interview. In Spanischer und Englischer Sprache mit Simultandolmetsch.

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 7th interviewee will be Enrique Santiago, Unidas Podemos MP & General Secretary of Partido Comunista de España.

The interview will be in Spanish with simultaneous translation to English. ?? ??

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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x0gCP5irTZOxqeoseKLfJA

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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Enrique Santiago is a lawyer, deputy of Unidas Podemos in the Spanish Parliament and Secretary General of the PCE, as well as a member of the federal board of Izquierda Unida. As a lawyer, he has played leading roles in matters as relevant as the case Pinochet, or the cases Scilingo and Bárcenas, about the corruption in the Popular Party. He has recently collaborated as a legal advisor in the Havana Dialogues on the peace process in Colombia. Previously, he was General Secretary of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) and later of IEPALA, organizations from which he promoted the complaint to society of the drama of migration in the Canary Islands and the Strait of Gibraltar during the so-called “crisis of the Cayucos”.

interviewed by:
Marga Ferré, is the Secretary for Political Elaboration of Izquierda Unida, Spain, and member of the transform! europe Board.

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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.