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Milan | The international seminar “Federalism: national, European and global perspectives - Winning the challenge of identity, democratic governance and interdependence” is a yearly training and debate event jointly organized by the Union of European Federalists and the Young European Federalists in cooperation with their national sections and other partner organizations.
The seminar will gather ca 60 international participants and ca 20 participants from Italy. Participants will come from different countries and different ages and background, mainly people interested in European affairs and the perspective of federalism at all levels of governance.
The seminar will focus on federalism in its national, European and global dimensions, exploring the challenges facing and the opportunities offered modern federalism at all level of government in contemporary societies.
Through a combination of conferences, moderated panel debates and interactive working groups, the seminar will cover a wide range of aspects of federalism, from its theoretical foundations to its actual application in response to the most pressing issues in our societies at the national, European and global levels. Speakers will come from the world of academia, civil society, administration and politics from different countries.
The meeting is open to members and non-members.
Presentations
FEDERALISM – SETTING THE SCENE by Paolo Vacca, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists
FUNDAMENTALS OF FEDERALISM by Luisa Trumellini, Secretary General of the Movimento Federalista Europeo
THE FEDERAL STATE: THEORY AND COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT EXISTING FEDERAL
STATES by Giuseppe Martinico, Associate Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa and Fellow at the Centro Studi sul Federalimo of Turin
NATIONALISM, POPULISM, GLOBALISATION, FEDERALISM: STRUGGLING FOR IDENTITY AND SOVEREIGNITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES by Alberto Martinelli, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Milan
IS FEDERALISM THE RIGHT MODEL FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION? by ROBERTO CASTALDI, Director of CESUE (Centre for European and Global Governance) and Associate Professor of Political Theory at eCampus University and FEDERICO OTTAVIO REHO, Research Officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Brussels
DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN MODERN FEDERAL AND REGIONAL STATES – THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES, GERMANY AND SPAIN
- GILBERT CASASUS, Professor of European Studies and Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Fribourg (on Switzerland)
- PAOLO VACCA, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists (on the United States)
- OTTO SCHMUCK, Vice President of the Union of European Federalists (on Germany)
- JOAN BOTELLA, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and President of Federalistes d'Esquerres (on Spain)
WHAT FEDERAL MODEL FOR EUROPE? THE INSTITUTIONS
- GIULIA ROSSOLILLO, Professor of EU Law at the University of Pavia
- ELMAR BROK, Member of the European Parliament, President of the Union of European Federalists
- SIETSE WIJNSMA, Policy Advisor on Constitutional Affairs to the ALDE Group in the European Parliament
WHAT FEDERAL MODEL FOR EUROPE? ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES
- FABIO MASINI, Professor of Theories and History of International Economic Relations at the University of Roma Tre
- CHRISTOPHER GLÜCK, President of the Young European Federalists
- BRANDO BENIFEI, Member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the European Movement International
FEDERALISM AT GLOBAL LEVEL
- PILAR LLORENTE RUIZ DE AZUA, Member of the Federal Committee of the UEF
- SUSANNA CAFARO, Professor of European Law at Università del Salento, Author of the blog “Supranational Democracy”
- ANDREAS BUMMEL, Director of Democracy Without Borders and of the international campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
