The Future of Europe: Integration or Alienation?

In light of recent events in 2017, the topic of integration and disintegration had increasingly become more current. Starting with the refugee crisis, the Greek debt crisis, and continuing to one of the most debatable subjects, the Brexit, the question of European unity and future turned out to be highly contested. The Conference 2017 adressed therefore issues such as Euroscepticism, European strategies and policies but also provided us with a glance to future possibilities that lay ahead. “The Future of Europe: Integration or Alienation” was the topic for the Clio Conference 2017 on May 2nd and it is one that concerns us both as single individuals and as a European community as a whole. 
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Master of Ceremonies:
Umar Mirza 

Speakers of the Day:
Rebecca Harms 
Luc van den Brande 
Richard Youngs
Laurence Gormley​
Frits Bolkestein

Workshops:
 “Negotiating the European Union” by Paul Meerts
 “EU Digital Policies and the Importance of Cybersecurity in the World  of Today and Tomorrow” by Stefan Soesanto 
“Rebuilding the Political Centre of the European Union” by Christel Zunneberg 
 “US-Europe Relations: For Peace and Prosperity” by Sherry Keneson-Hall
“The Euro-Crisis: A Financial Crisis or an Institutional One?” By Gregory Claeys 
“Rethinking the Concept of Euroscepticism and European Integration” by Michiel Luining
 “What crisis? - How to Put a European ‘Refugee Crisis’  into Your Own Perspective” ​by Aurelia Streit and Nour Khatib
 
Masterclass:
"The Brexit Legal Conundrum: Looking Back and Forward" - by Luca Pantaleo

Conference Committee 2017

Rianne van Staalduinen - Board Representative
Allison Battoni - Secretary
Frederik Melchior - Treasurer
Dragalina Vranceanu - Speakers Coordinator
Anne Danker - Chairwoman
Elke van Saane - Speakers Coordinator
Lorenz Peh - Public Relations
Claire Selbeck - Acquisition