Open Academic dialogue with CSOs and social economic partners on the book
“States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region” , Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
December, 7th 2022
HYBRID ROUND TABLE
Place: BRUSSELS, hour 14.30 – 16.00 pm
EESC, RUE BELLIARD 99 (ROOM JDE 4041)
Registration for hybrid connection: info@europeansmeacademy.eu
Online link to the meeting: meet.google.com/jss-wksx-kty
Foreword
The volume collects several and important contributions from a group of scholars who have been working for years on the historical, cultural, social, economic, political, geo-strategic features of the MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Countries. The recent events related with COVID19 pandemic and Russian-Ukrainian war, with their consequences at global and European level, have further accelerated the geo-political changes in this area (security, energy diversification, food, migration) asking for a profound rethinking of EU cooperation and partnership policies with one of the most complex area of the world.
The presentation of the volume is an opportunity for comparing with realism the new scenario in the enlarged Mediterranean with EU institutions, social partners and civil society representatives with political foundations and wider stakeholders.
Introduction to the Round Table
14.30 Gkofas Panagiotis, EESC, President of Craft & SME and Craft Avignon
14.40 Invited Authors
Riccardo Redaelli, Catholic University of the Holy Heart Milan, editor
Francesca Corrao, Luiss University of Rome, editor
Umberto Triulzi, Sapienza University of Rome
15.00-16.00 Moderator: Claudio Cappellini, CNA EU Policy Affairs and EESC SME policy expert
Invited discussants:
– Emanuela Del Re, EU Special Representative for the Sahel (tbc)
– Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union (tbc)
– Mr. Jacint Soler, PIMEC / SME United (online)
– Representative of GSVEE
– Mr Luc Hendrickx, SME United
– Ms. Zeynep Sanıgök, TURKONFED tbc