Popular or Populist Democracy in Central Europe?
The Institute of International Relations and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung organized an international conference "Popular or Populist Democracy in Central Europe?".
Information
| Date: | 27.02.2014 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Venue: | Great Hall, the Czernin Palace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Loretánské náměstí 5, Prague 1 |
| In cooperation: | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Prague |
| Organized by: | Vladimír Handl |
Programme
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:15 Opening remarks
Mirko Hempel, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Regional Office in Prague for the Czech Republic and Slovakia Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Head of Research Department, Institute of International Relations, Prague
10:15 – 11:45 Panel I: Central European populism in a comparative view
Chair: Volker Weichsel, Editor of the journal “Osteuropa”, Berlin Bálint Magyar, former Minister of Education, Budapest: Populism as a response to the crisis of traditional party systems Tanja Binder, member of the “Wahl-O-Mat” scientific team, Germany: Right-wing Populism and European Democracy - Lessons from Austria and France Kai-Olaf Lang, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin: Populism as a response to the trust crisis in the public affairs governance and/or good governance failure Petra Rakušanová Guasti, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences, Prague: Populism as a response to the Eurozone crisis – a Czech view
Discussion
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speeches
Petr Drulák, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Ernst Hillebrand, Head of the Department for International Policy Analysis, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin
Discussion moderated by Mirko Hempel, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Regional office Prague for the Czech Republic and Slovakia
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel II: European integration as a source or a solution of populism?
Chair: Lucia Najšlová, Charles University, V4 Revue / EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Prague Vladimír Bilčík, Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava: Central Europe in EU governance debate Josef Janning, Mercator Fellow, DGAP Berlin: German Hegemony in the Eurozone? Vít Beneš, Institute of International Relations, Prague: European integration as a top-down project of elites and the role of national parliaments Agata Gostyńska, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw: EP elections and their implications on the interinstitutional relations
Discussion
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Working language
English
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Tomáš Profant
Vladislav Strnad