Webinar scheduled “Political-projectual reflections for Europe”, Thursday 11 July 2024, 17:00ZOOM Platform. Just click on this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83708482711?pwd=I4VErnREZNZi5xFlI8tW6HyNu2SsHa.1
The Webinar was born from an idea by Pietro Ramellini and will be held by him Pietro Ramelliniby fellow citizens Patrizio Ivo D’Andrea e Stephen Cortinaand by the expert ASviS Louis DiMarco. Below is a brief introduction to the Webinar.
Rarely, in politics, is there a shared interpretation of an event. This is what happened with the election results of last June to choose the 720 members of the “European Parliament”. Three interpretations contend with those results. The first interpretation holds that they were won by the forces of the nationalist right. The second interpretation holds that the centrist majority emerges confirmed in the elections for the European Parliament. The third interpretation maintains that the results are relevant because they indicate an unprecedented and contextual crisis of the two countries, France and Germany, on which the European integration process has so far been based. This will be one of the topics covered by the Webinar.
With the results of the European elections now in place, the path that will lead to the formation of the new European Parliament and subsequently of the new European Commission will be quite long and tortuous. The European Council meets to find an agreement on the candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, to be proposed by the European Parliament. After several steps, the candidate president chosen by the European Council presents his political program for the legislature to the Parliament, the Parliament discusses the program and moves on to a secret ballot. After the election of the President, the phase of actual formation of the “European Commission” with the election of the commissioners, i.e. the 27 members of the Commission. As a final act, the entire Commission is put to a vote for a five-year mandate. And so step by step we will get to Christmas. One of the webinar reports will deal in detail with the legal structure of the European Union.
In the framework of the European research program Horizon 2020, the project “Real Deal” of which ASviS is a partner. The final objective of the project is the definition of a “protocollo Real Deal” for the participation of civil society in the decision-making processes of policies at the European Union level and in the various member states, evaluating its imminent institutional adoption to implement structured and permanent participatory processes, for the implementation of the Green Deal in the framework of the 2030 Agenda. The methodology adopted and the related results will be the subject of a presentation to this from the Webinar.
In parallel with the process of appointing the new Commission, the path of the “AI Act”, namely the EU regulation on Artificial Intelligence, which guarantees safety and respect for fundamental rights and promotes innovation. The aim is to protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and the environmental sustainability of Artificial Intelligence systems, while promoting innovation and ensuring Europe plays a leading role in the sector. At the end of the long approval process by the previous European Parliament, Dear Tudoracheco-rapporteur of the Committee on Civil Liberties said “…The EU has kept its promises. We have forever linked the concept of Artificial Intelligence to the fundamental values that form the basis of our societies…..”
