The aim of the conference is to identify the social roots and political context of the new Euroscepticism and offer a liberal framework to challenge it. Why do pro-EU voters support Eurosceptic regimes? What are the political opportunities these regimes can exploit for their benefits? During the first section, we would like to invite international speakers from Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic to discuss the core of this new kind of Euroscepticism. We would like to highlight the consequences of the Russian disinformation campaign, and the Russian-Ukraine war.

Programme

10:00 ELF welcome

• Milosz Hodun, member, Board of Directors, ELF

10:10 Euroscepticism in the Russia-Ukraine war

• Renata Gravina, Researcher, La Sapienza University of Rome
• Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
• Tanja Porčnik, President, Visio Institute
• Andrea Virág, Director of Strategy, Republikon

11:30 Coffee Break

11:40 What does the European Union means to us?

• Dániel Berg, Vice-President, ALDE
• Sára Lafferton, Political Scientist
• Benedek Jávor, Representative of Budapest in Brussels
• Attila Kert, journalist, Euronews
• István Szent-Iványi, former MEP, ALDE

13:15 Lunch