PART I: Conference on the Future of Europe - EU's Internal Challenges

In the context of the Conference on The Future of Europe, planned for the next two years, the IIP asked experts would to take a deeper look on the main challenges, domestically and internationally, for the European Union in the next four years.

Experts:
Hannes Swoboda, President of the IIP, former MEP

Vivein Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University, IIP Executive Board member

Andreas Schieder, Member of the European Parliament (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats)

Djordje Bojovic, expert of the Initiative ‘Young Generations for the New Western Balkans’

Elke Schraik, Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for European Integration Research
Department of Political Science, University of Vienna

Lukas Mandl, Member of the European Parliament (Group of the European People's Party)

Bruno Maçães, political scientist, former Europe Minister of Portugal

Gudrun Kramer, Director of the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), IIP Advisory Board member

Adnan Cerimagic, Analyst at the European Stability Initiative, IIP Advisory Board member

Franz Baumann, Visiting Research Professor at New York University, former United Nations Special Adviser on Environment and Peace Operations

Hanno Löwy, curator and writer, Director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems

Claudia Gamon, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe Group)

Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, Ambassador (ret.), Secretary General of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe

Irina Bolgova, associate professor in the Department of Applied Analysis at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), IIP Advisory Board member

Monika Begovic, President of the Atlantic Council of Croatia, IIP Executive Board member

Stefan Lehne, Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels

Katsiaryna Shmatsina, Researcher, Rethink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Here is what they said!