The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organised a conference on "European Values in a Changing World: How can we respond to the populist wave?".
Post-Brexit Europe is constantly facing new challenges. Europe's left-wing parties are losing their influence and parties on the centre-right are under pressure from national populists.
A month before the European Parliament elections, parties in the centre-right need to find a position that simultaneously keeps them away from populists, retains voters and leaves them in the field of pro-European forces. How can this be achieved? This and other questions will be answered together.
Opening:
Lykke Friis, Co-President of the European Parliamentary Assembly, former Minister for Climate, Energy and Equal Rights
Petar Stoyanov, President of Bulgaria (1997-2001)
Panel I: What do voters expect?
Piotr Buras, Political Researcher, Director of the ECFR Warsaw Office
Genoveva Petrova, Managing Director, Alpha Research
Antony Galabov, sociologist, professor at New Bulgarian University
Moderator: Vessela Cherneva, Deputy Director of ECFR and Director of the Sofia Office
Panel II: What kind of Europe do we want?
Rumiana Kolarova, Political Analyst, Sofia University
Georgi Kharizanov, Institute for Right Policy
Assen Agov, journalist, former member of parliament from the SDS/DFS
Moderator: Daniel Stefanov, programme coordinator for ECFR, Sofia