The session will ask whether EU policies put prosperity at risk? Are they needed for the public to support the single market and globalisation? How should they change as economies falter and the EU becomes more diverse? What would UK repatriation of social policy mean for Britain and Europe?

Speakers:     

Neal Lawson (Chair, Compass)

Richard Howitt MEP

Jon Worth (Associate Fellow, IPPR)

Chair:                      

Katharina Klebba (The Fabian Society) 

The session will ask whether social and employment policies across Europe are fair? Do they make the right trade-offs? What's the fairest way to make social policy decisions? Does the EU offer a 'fair deal' to people in Europe?

Speakers:     

Claude Moraes MEP (Deputy Leader of the EPLP)

Mats Persson (Director, Open Europe)

David Gow (Former Europe Editor, The Guardian)

Chair:           

Alexandra Pardal (Senior Research Associate, Foreign Policy Centre)

The session will ask whether trade unions have become disengaged form the EU over the last generation and why? Are there European agendas and arguments which would re-engage them while also having broad, majority public support? Will it be necessary for trade unions to become transnational organisation over the coming years in order to have a lasting impact on the European level?

Speakers:     

Owen Tudor (Head of TUC European Union and International Relations Department)

Robert Evans (Former Labour MEP)

Marc Stears (Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford)

Chair:

Ivana Bartoletti (former advisor to the Italian Government, editor of Fabiana)