ISLAMABAD, NOV 23 (DNA) -Prof. Christian Lequesne, Professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po/CERI, will be giving a public talk about “EU facing populisms” on Monday 26th of November 2018 at 11.30 at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

The conference will take place in the Conference Hall of the School of Politics and International Relations at Quaid-i-Azam University.

This conference is part of a series of talks Prof. Lequesne within the framework of the Open Doors Programs managed by the Alliance Française of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi

The conference will be followed by a Q/A session with the public. Participation doesn’t require any prior registration.

Christian Lequesne, holds BA and MA degrees from Sciences Po Strasbourg and the College of Europe, Bruges.

He is a regular visiting professor at the School of Government of LUISS University, the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, and  the Department of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague.

After the 2nd World War, the European Union (EU) was built on the idea of liberal values against the terrible experience of national-socialism in Germany.

In 1989, communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe joined the liberal camp in becoming members of the EU.  30 years later,  populist forces are contesting the idea of liberal order in the EU, which was based on free markets, open borders and the rule of law. Populist parties won free elections in some EU Member States.

They are all anti-globalization, anti-EU and anti-establishment. How to explain this political phenomenon, who does not attract only labor classes but also middle classes? Is it part of a more general phenomenon in the West ? What can the EU do to bring new trust to the electorate who is voting for the populist parties in the EU ?

Prof. Christian Lequesne shall shed light on all these important aspects of the European Union.=DNA

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