EUROPEAN STUDIES

On 10 May 2023, the Institute for European Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) hosted the talk with the book author Prof. Dr. Jürgen Neyer: "Europa im Unfrieden. Social Conflicts and Political Upheavals in European History and the Present".

Prof. Dr. Eva Heidbreder, head of the Chair of Multilevel Governance in Europe at Otto-von-Guericke University, took part in the discussion together with Prof. Dr. Michael Minkenberg, head of the Chair of Comparative Politics at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), and Prof. Dr. Claudia Weber, head of the Chair of Modern European History at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). The author, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Neyer, presented the thesis explained in his book. The political scientist claims that there is a pattern when political systems fall into crisis and thus an explanation for the success of populism, increasing nationalism and phenomena such as the Brexit, all in all: for crisis of the European Union. However, his thesis was disputed in the discussion.

This year's WDR Europaforum 2023, "Am Katzentisch der Weltpolitik? Europas Rolle nach der Zeitenwende" counted with the participation of European Studies students from the Otto von Guericke University.

This year, for the third time, the Universities of Bonn, Passau and Magdeburg, in cooperation with the Union of European Federalists, the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament and the Universities of Flensburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Innsbruck, Paderborn and Vienna, are organising the "Online Round Table on European Democracy 2023" on 20 June 2023, 6:30 - 8 pm.