The conference “100 shades of the EU: The Political Economy of the EU peripheries between Pandemic and War” will take place on the 3rd and 4th of April, in Trieste (Italy).
This conference aims at expanding the academic and political discussion initiated with the study published last year and will cover the following topics:
- Core and periphery model and the EU
- Structures of dependency in the EU
- Economic and political impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war on Ukraine on the EU, particularly on Southern and Eastern peripheries
- Position of labour and trade unions
- International cooperation between workers in different countries involved in GVCs
- Political cleavages in the EU
- The role of EU and the role of the State in shaping Europe
- A new industrial policy for Europe
- Social and cultural constructions of peripherality in the EU
Organised by:
transform! europe in cooperation with
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung,
CGIL Trieste (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro), and
CSI Nord EST / MSS Severovzhod (Consiglio Sindacale Interregionale Friuli Venezia Giulia /Slovenia – Medregijski sindikalni svet Furlanija-Julijska Krajina/Slovenija)
CGIL Trieste is partner of Euradria project 2022-2024
Keynote speakers:
Manuela Boatca (University of Freiburg, Germany) Dorothee Bohle (University of Vienna, Austria), Giacomo Cucignato (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Nadia Garbellini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), Annamaria Simonazzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Vera Scepanovic (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
To register, click here.
Programme
Monday, 3 April
9:00-10:15 (CET): Registration
10:15-10:30 (CET): Opening Session
Speakers:
- Cornelia Hildebrandt, Co-President transform! europe
- Roberto Treu, President of Irtucs Friuli Venezia Giulia/Slovenia Cgil Cisl Uil Zsss Ks 90
10:30–12:00 (CET): Session 1: 100 Shades of the EU: Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries
Speakers:
- Giuseppe Celi, Associated Professor of Economics, University of Foggia, Italy – Economic Models of EU Peripheries and Global Interactions
- Valentina Petrović, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland – The Political Manifestations of the Core-Periphery Divide
- Veronika Sušová-Salminen*, Independent Researcher, Czech Republic/Finland – The Unbearable Lightness of Imitation. Mimicry and Dependency in Central Eastern and Southern Europe
*Authors of the study “100 Shades of the EU: Mapping the Political Economy of the EU peripheries”
12:00–13:00 (CET): Lunch break
13:00–14:30 (CET): Session 2: The Political Economy in Central Eastern Europe in Times of Crisis
Speakers:
- Dorothee Bohle, political scientist; University of Vienna – Europe´s Eastern Periphery in the Polycrisis
- Attila Antal, political scientist; Senior Lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Institute of Political Science, Budapest, Hungary – The Political Economy of Emergency Governance in Hungary
- Gavin Rae, Fundacja Naprzód, Poland- Military Keynesianism: Poland’s New Macroeconomic Policy on the Edge of War
Moderation:
- Veronika Sušová-Salminen
14:30–14:45 (CET): Coffee break
14:45-16:30 (CET): Session 3: Welfare State, Green Transition and Growth: What Alternatives?
Speakers:
- Annamaria Simonazzi, Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome – Social Investment as an Engine of Growth and Innovation: The Case of Long Term Care
- Giacomo Cucignatto, Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy – Which Energy Policy and Ecological Transition For the EU? A Reconsideration in the Aftermath of the War
- Nadia Garbellini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy – Industrial Policy From a Left-Wing Perspective
Moderation:
- Giuseppe Celi
16:30–16:45 (CET): Coffee break
16:45–17:45 (CET): Session 4: Peripheral Growth Models
Speakers:
- Gabriel Sakellaridis, Eteron Institute for Research and Social Change, Athens – Growth Models, International Investment Positions and Financing Patterns: The South-European Road to the Crisis and its Aftermath
- Mariusz Kalanta, Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius – Middle-Income Trap and Diverging Growth Models in the Baltic States
Moderation:
- Dagmar Švendová
Tuesday, 4 April
10:00–11:15 (CET): Session 5: The Position of Labour and Wages
Speakers:
- Bojana Tamindžija and Vladimir Simović, CPE – Centar za politike emancipacije – European Periphery Outside of the EU: the Case of Garment and Shoe Industry in Serbia
- Małgorzata Kulbacczewska-Figat, Journalist, Fundacja Naprzód, Cross-Border Talks editor-in-chief, Poland – Perspectives of a Labour Movement Revival in a Post-Socialist Peripheral Economy: The Case of Poland
- Vincenzo Maccarone, Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence – Common Pressures and Uneven Trajectories: Assessing Ten Years of European Governance Interventions on Irish and Italian Wage Policy
Moderation:
- Cornelia Hildebrandt
11:15-11:30 (CET): Coffee break
11:30-12:45 (CET): Session 6: Institutions, Geographies and Inequalities
Speakers:
- Manuela Boatca, Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Freiburg – Unequal Citizenships and the Political Economy of Cultural Differences
- Odysseas Konstantinakos, Department of Political Sciences, European University Institute Fiesole – “Power and Puzzling” in the Southern Periphery: How and When European Institutions Learn From the Failure of Austerity
12:45–14:00 (CET): Lunch break
14:00– 16:00 (CET): Session 7: Shipbuilding Industry: Labour’s Right and Industrial Policy
- Matteo Gaddi, member of the Scientific Committee of the Claudio Sabattini Foundation and a trade union official at CGIL in Reggio Emilia, Italy – The General Situation of the Italian Shipbuilding Industry
- Trade Union Delegate from Monfalcone – The Monfalcone Shipyard Situation
- Trade Union delegate from Marghera – The Marghera Shipyard Situation
- Trade Union Delegate from Wartsila, Italia – The Industrial Supply Chains of Shipbuilding
16:00–16:30 (CET): Coffee break
16:30–18:30 (CET): Session 8:The International Port of Trieste: Public Government in Value Chains
Introduction:
- Michele Piga, General Secretary of Cgil Trieste, Italy
Discussion:
- Michelangelo Agrusti, President of Confindustria Alto Adriatico
- Zeno D’Agostino, President of European Ports ESPO /President Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea
- Roberto Treu, CSI
Final conclusions:
- Stefano Malorgio, General Secretary of FILT CGIL