CIDOB Breakfast with Gerald Knaus, European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding Chairman
"Migration crises, war and the future of democracy in Europe"
CIDOB, Sala Jordi Maragall, Elisabets, 12, 08001 Barcelona
CIDOB
On 23 July, at 9:00 a.m., CIDOB organises a new CIDOB Breakfast with the participation of Gerald Knaus, European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding Chairman. Gerald Knaus will address the impact of migration and states' responses to it on the future of democracy, particularly in a EU context shaken by two wars in its immediate neighbourhood and the rise of the extreme right. The event will be opened by Josep Borrell, President of CIDOB, and will be followed by a debate moderated by Pol Morillas, Director of CIDOB.
Gerald Knaus (Austria) is the European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding chairman. In 2021, he received the Karl Carstens Award by the German Federal Academy for Security Policy. In 2020, he published the award-winning SPIEGEL bestseller “Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?” (“What Borders Do We Need?”) and in 2011, he wrote the book “Can Intervention Work?” with the British writer and politician Rory Stewart. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was for five years an Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. After studying in Oxford, Brussels, and Bologna, he taught university economics in Ukraine and spent ten years working for NGOs and international organisations in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Kosovo and has published extensively on migration, the rule of law in Europe and refugee issues, was well as on corruption.
The conversation will be conducted in English.
