London, 05/02/2016. Today, the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - part of the LSE European Institute "Perspectives on Europe" public lecture - called "Britain and the EU: a view from the European Parliament" hosted by Martin Schulz (German politician and President of the European Parliament since 2012; previously leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament; member of the European...
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London, 05/02/2016. Today, the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - part of the LSE European Institute "Perspectives on Europe" public lecture - called "Britain and the EU: a view from the European Parliament" hosted by Martin Schulz (German politician and President of the European Parliament since 2012; previously leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament; member of the European Parliament for Germany since 1994; aged 31, he was elected as the youngest mayor of North Rhine-Westphalia). Chair of the event was Professor Craig Calhoun (American sociologist and Director of LSE). From the event online page: <<Turbulent times, multiple challenges, permanent crisis mode. Can Europe cope? Are nation states better off alone? Is the EU just a scapegoat? Join us at this lecture to find out why Martin Schulz thinks that the EU, despite its present bad shape, remains the answer to global problems and needs fixing not ditching. […]>>.

Here there is the link to podcast and video of the lecture: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3364
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