Europe: Reluctant Superpower No More?

Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye
25 May 2024, 19:00 CEST
The Future of Europe Debate co-organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna) and Hay Festival
Emma Graham-Harrison, Ivan Krastev, and Rafał Trzaskowski talk to Misha Glenny
Surrounded by a necklace of crises from Ukraine via the Middle East to the Maghreb, Europe has been signalling that it must play a more active role on the global stage, but it has sat passively as China and the US direct the course of events. As we approach the US presidential election, does Europe have the strength, ability and will to assert itself against an unpredictable mixture of populism, war, technological advance and economic uncertainty? Misha Glenny, journalist and Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, asks senior international affairs correspondent at The UK's Guardian and Observer Emma Graham-Harrison, political scientist Ivan Krastev, and Rafał Trzaskowski, Polish politician and current city mayor of Warsaw, whether Europe can weather the approaching storms.