International discussion “Europe’s Future After 2024 European Parliament Elections”

What: Discussion “Europe’s Future After 2024 European Parliament Elections”
When: 3 pm, May 16
Where: Didzioji street 5, Vilnius

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With less than one month before the European Parliament elections, it is more relevant than ever to discuss Europe’s future.

Together we shall analyze how Europeans’ voting can change the Union’s direction. Will the new configuration of powers make us stronger and more resistant in the world? Or will the election results leave our democracy weakened and, therefore, more vulnerable to malign actors?

The Open Lithuania Foundation has joined the Visegrad Insight – a Central European Platform of debate and analysis – to work on a project “EP Elections 2024: How Democracy can Win and Europe Lose.” Experts from Central and Eastern Europe developed and analyzed four scenarios for Europe’s future following the EP elections and the new European Commission.

The research looks into internal and external challenges and possible Europe’s responses aiming to ensure democratic resilience and offers specific recommendations how to best do that. Please read the full text of this research here.

This discussion will follow similar expert-level policy events in other European capitals, namely Paris, Budapest, and Warsaw and precede two more that will take place in Sofia and Brussels.

Participants:
Andrius Kubilius, former Prime Minister of Lithuania and Lithuanian MEP
Margarita Šešelgytė, director at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Magda Jakubowska, Vice President of Res Publica Foundation
Sandra Adomavičiūtė, Director at the Open Lithuania Foundation
Klaudijus Melys, former Youth delegate of Lithuania on the UN Youth delegate programme

Moderator: Maksimas Reznikovas, vice-chairman of the Central Electoral Commission.