Nathalie Tocci: A GREEN AND GLOBAL EUROPE?

Philipp Blom in conversation with Nathalie Tocci
A GREEN AND GLOBAL EUROPE?

Beset by a crisis of democracy and geopolitical challenges, by demographic imbalances and environmental disaster, an economically weakened Europe, bereft of its old, liberal narrative, seems to be staggering, a waning force losing both credibility and power.
Not so, says Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome and Europe’s Futures Fellow at the IWM in Vienna. If Europe is ambitious enough, it can secure future influence and prosperity by fully committing to a true green revolution, expanding on the goals of the energy transition that has already become the new heart of the European project. Tocci is one of the foremost thinkers on Europe and its future in the world. Even while faced with new un certainties and challenges, Europe can find a new global role by championing and driving an agenda for green transition that recognizes only global solutions and global justice will be effective in the fight for a European future.

Philipp Blom speaks with Nathalie Tocci about a European future between energy transition and new strategic challenges, as well as the challenges for European democracies faced with popular discontent and a loss of trust in the European project or its institutions. Is the future green and global, or will the European moment be swallowed up in epochal change?

Nathalie Tocci has been Special Advisor to EU High Representative and Vice President of the Commission Josep Borrell. As Special Advisor to HRVP Federica Mogherini she wrote the Euro pean Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She has been a member of Eni’s Board of Directors since May 2020. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970. After living and working in Oxford, London, and Paris, he is now based in Vienna. His historical works, essays, and novels have been translated into 16 languages and have received numerous awards, including a scholarship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the German Non-Fiction Book Prize. Blom is also a prolific radio journalist and public speaker.

Recorded at Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien (ehem. Postsparkasse) on May 10, 2023

The discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow critically examines the present from multiple perspectives in order to create a better understanding of tomorrow. Together with the Bruno Kreisky Forum and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the University of Applied Arts Vienna hosts experts from different disciplines to discuss future challenges.