Wilhelm Ersil: Perspectives and Consequences of Differentiation within the EU

Lecture, Brussels, 16 June 2009

Venue: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Büro Brüssel

Language: German, simultaneous translation

Contact: Roland Kulke

Both, the raising unemployment figures all over Europe and the possible gains of nationalist parties in the upcoming European Elections show only two facets of the crisis of the European integration. This development is caused by decades of neoliberal economic policies that have led to the recent catastrophic world economic crisis. Wilhelm Ersil therefore predicts a profound change in the predominant model of European integration and emphasizes the urge for a debate on strategic alternatives to “Corporate Europe”. He refers to the debate on “Differentiated Integration” and asks for possibilities of a progressive and social “Core Europe”.

Prof. emeritus Dr. Wilhelm Ersil, born 1928, member of the working group Peace and International Politics at the national committee of the party “Die Linke”. Until 1989 lecturer for foreign policy of the capitalist countries of Europe and head of the department Western Europe at the Institute for International Relations at the Academy for Political Economy and Jurisprudence of Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Full text by Wilhlem Ersil