On 9 March, within the frameworks of Francophonie month and the year in which Bulgaria marks 30 years since it became a member of the International Organisation of La Francophonie, the French Institute in this country, in partnership with the Belgian embassy and the St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia organized a conference on “European construction: challenges and future prospects”. The conference is part of a series of discussions dedicated to Europe.
The complex structure of the European Union was discussed by Loïc Grard, Professor of public law at the University of Bordeaux and President of the French Association of European Studies, Prof. Jean Crombois from the Department of Political Science and European Studies at the American University in Bulgaria, and Ildiko Otova who lectures at New Bulgarian University and at the St. Kliment Ohridski University.
“We can be a family and not advance at the same speed,” he believes. In his words, together we can achieve what it is impossible to do individually.
Mobility, migration and citizenship are the elements around which the notion of Europe is articulated, Ildiko Otova said. The discussion has to revert to individual stories, she added.
According to Loïc Grard, a new narrative about Europe is needed, and it has to be connected with the main risk of today – the risk to the environment.
“I think that the priority in the discussion about Europe has to be Green Europe because on their own Bulgaria, France or Belgium are not going to get far,” he said.
Photos: institutfrancais.bg
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