This is a time of threats and challenges for democracy across Europe – both within the EU and in other European countries, including the UK. This conference, organised by the European Movement in Scotland brings together leading experts from Scotland and across Europe to look at the current crisis of European democracy, and what should be the response to that crisis.
Themes of this session will be:
The extent of the far-right threat to democracy in Europe, and how the EU should respond to that threat
How citizens and civil society should respond to the threats to European democracy
The prospects for reform and revitalisation of the European project
What individuals, citizens’ movements, and political leaders can do in the face of these challenges
The confirmed speakers for this session are:
Tanja Bueltmann
Tanja Bueltmann is a German-British historian and academic, who holds the chair in International History at the 
University of Strathclyde
. She specialises in the history of migration and diaspora. Her main research interest is in immigrant community life, especially ethnic associational culture and immigrant collective action. She is also a citizens' rights campaigner and founder of the EU Citizens' Champion campaign
.
Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the current 
Henry A Kissinger chair in foreign policy and international relations at the US Library of Congress, Washington DC. 
His topics of focus include geopolitics and geoeconomics, China, EU politics and institutions. Previously he worked as director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, and had earlier been director of the Foreign Policy Centre.
Sophie Pornschlegel
Sophie Pornschlegel is deputy Director of Europe Jacques Delors, a Brussels-based think tanks. She is also a Policy Fellow with Das Progressive Zentrum in Berlin. She is a Franco-German political scientist working on European affairs, with expertise in 2 policy fields: Democracy, EU institutions and the rule of law; as well as EU sustainability policies, including greening trade, agrifood and green diplomacy.
Alyn Smith
Alyn Smith was an SNP Member of the European Parliament for Scotland from 2004-2019, and SNP MP for Stirling from 2019 to 2024. He was SNP Spokesperson for Europe and EU accession between 2022 and 2024. Prior to his election as an MEP, he had worked as a lawyer in both London and Edinburgh. In the European Parliament, he served on both the Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Foreign Affairs committees.
Graham Watson
Sir Graham Robert Watson was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2014. For more than 7 years he was leader of the Liberal Group in the European Parliament, first as leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group, and then as leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). He is currently an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Note the entrance for the Institut Francais Ecosse (French Institute Scotland) is  from George IV Bridge. 
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