europe_end_of_solidarity.md

Title of panel

• The End of solidarity? The return of the national though in Europe.
• Das Ende der Gemeinsamkeit? Die Rückkehr des nationalen Gedankens in Europa.

Type of discussion

• Expert panel
• Sunday, 12.02.2017,
• Schauspiel Leipzig,
• Moderation Dr. Jens Bisky, Feuilleton SZ

Attendees

• Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Róża Thun

Critic

• sadly not that well attended, maybe 80-100 people
• there was no introduction about how the evening is playing out, the aim of this talk was not given
• all people on the panel had the same opinion
• the moderator didn't, at least that's how I saw it, really had a list of questions prepared, it was more a "I asked one question and let's see were we are going"
• the panel stopped very abruptly, not giving the attendes a chance to say closing words
• there was no Q&A

Notes

• hate speech is also a major problem in Poland
• liberal environment minister who cuts down trees from jungle
• EU flags get removed from government buildings, but people buy them themselves
• they do have a problem with smog:
  • Róża Thun: "Why PiS is fighting smog? Because thanks to smog, people are afraid to leave the streets" (Translated by Google Translate, Original)
• impossible for Le Pen to win, Marcon wins the elections
• Political claims that came up:
  • increase the EU household to 5% of GDP, in comparision to US with 27% of GDP and current 1%, for beeing able to buffer differences better
  • create EU agency that is looking for volunteers on all hierarchical levels to circumvent the opposition of state governments and use good will
  • create possibility for 2 Mio. people EU wide per year to travel to another country, since studies show (no source, sorry) that 40% of them end up in inter-country relationship with kids