There is something wrong with the EU

There is something wrong with the EU

Friday, 7 November 2014 - 12:30pm
Venue: 
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road
Speaker(s): 
Bruno Maçães (Secretary of State for Europe, Portugal)
Chair: 
Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Series: 
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

The Eurozone crisis and the rise of anti-European parties have sharpened our collective sense that reform at the EU level has become a matter of urgency. This is both a theoretical and a practical project, with politicians and academics struggling to find a more or less magical fix to what all agree must be a fundamental flaw with how the EU system works. But what exactly is wrong with the EU and how can it be fixed?