panel discussion
FOR A NEW EUROPEAN SOCIAL CONTRACT
RETHINKING OUR WELFARE STATE
26 FEBRUARY 2019 at 6pm
at the House of European History
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With the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, laws were progressively implemented to protect the labour class. Two centuries later, it
is reasonable to wonder about the future of our Welfare State system. Will our social rights be preserved in the future? What about our
growing elderly population: will they be treated with care and dignity? And what about the young generation? With the aging population in
Europe, who will finance the welfare states? What about innovative forms for providing care for the weakest, such as social enterprise?
The speakers
Dávid J. Szabó
Dávid
J. Szabó is the head of Foreign Affairs at Századvég Foundation since December 2018. He previously served as Director of Research,
overseeing the think tank’s research and consulting activities in the fields of economic, social, foreign and security policy and
governance studies. Prior to that he was Századvég’s Director for Foreign Affairs for two years, working on developing international
cooperation projects and institutional partnership deals for the organization, as well as supervising the Foundation’s foreign and European
political research projects. Apart from his in-house duties, Dávid J. Szabó is frequently invited as a speaker or panel chair to various public
events and he is a regular commentator and author of foreign and security policy related issues in both domestic and international media.
He is a member of the Hungarian Atlantic Council. Since 2015, Dávid J. Szabó is a Manager for International Relations at prominent Hungarian sports
club MTK Budapest.
Jaako Kuosmanen
Jaakko
Kuosmanen is currently working with public sector consultancy projects at Demos Helsinki. He has a PhD in Political Science from the
University of Edinburgh, and has has worked with various governments on the topic of long-term governance, including the UK government, the
Welsh government, the Scottish government, the Indian government, as well as the Finnish government. Jaakko has been published extensively
in top-ranking academic peer-review journals, and he is currently editing a collection of essays for Oxford University Press. Before joining
Demos Helsinki, Jaakko worked for the Council of Europe, and more recently at the University of Oxford, where he worked at the Faculty of
Law as a James Martin Research Fellow, and as a programme coordinator at the Oxford Martin School. Jaakko has also lectured at the Blavatnik
School of Government.
CHIARA SARACENO
Chiara
Saraceno is currently Honorary Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. Previously she was Research Professor at the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Professor of sociology of the family, first at the University of Trento and then at the
University of Turin. She was a member of the Committee of Inquiry into poverty and social exclusion in Italy, which she also chaired for
three years (1998-2001). She is also a regular contributor to the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica. Her most recent
publications include L’equivoco della famiglia (2017) [Misunderstandings Concerning the Family]; Mamme e papà. Gli esami non
finiscono mai(2016)
[Mum and Dad. Exams are Never Over]; “The impact of the great depression on child poverty. The case of Italy” (with L. Natali), in B.
Cantillon, Y. Chzhen, S. Handa (eds.), Children of Austerity (2017); “Southern European Welfare Regimes. from differentiation to
reconvergence?” in Handbook of European Social Policy (P. Kennett and N. Levai-Bainton eds.) (2017).
The moderator
KARL VAN DEN BROECK
Karl
van den Broeck is a Belgian journalist and essayist. In charge of the Culture column for the Belgian daily De Morgen for twenty
years then editor-in-chief of Knack for six years, he is now the editor-in-chief of the news website Apache.be and
a conference and debate organiser at BOZAR.
Practical Information
Where?
At the House of European History, rue Belliard 135, 1000 Brussels
On Tuesday, February 26th at 6pm
Discussions in original languages, with English interpretation.
Free entrance
Entrance upon registration only. Thank you for confirming your attendance by clicking on the link below.
Contact: culture(at)alliancefr.be
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"For a new European social contract" is an initiative led by EUNIC Brussels of which are part the Alliance Française Bruxelles-Europe, the Balassi Institute Brussels, the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü Brüksel, the British Council in Belgium, the Instituto Cervantes Bruselas, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bruxelles and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. In partnership with the House of European History and the Alumni Association of the College of Europe.
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