21st Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

from 24-26 September 2015, organised by the EuroMemo Group and jointly hosted with the Department of Society and Globalisation and the Global Dynamics initiative at Roskilde University in Denmark

Addressing Europe's Multiple Crises: An agenda for economic transformation, solidarity and democracy

The EuroMemo Group conference 2015 was jointly hosted with the Department of Society and Globalisation and the Global Dynamics initiative at Roskilde University, from 24-26 September 2015 (Thursday-Saturday). The programme was as follows:

Thursday afternoon: The state of the Union

• Hanne Leth Andersen (Rector of Roskilde University): Welcome
  

• Jesper Jespersen (Roskilde University): Opening
  

• Nicos Theocarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Political State of the Union
  

• Gary Dymski (Leeds University Business School): Economic State of the Union
  

• Laura Horn (Roskilde University): The Role of Social movements in the crisis
  

Friday morning: The second day was dedicated to key themes of EU policy within five different workshops.

• Macroeconomic policies
  

• A critical assessment of the project of European Monetary Union
  

• Labour markets, demographic change and migration
  

• Youth unemployment, precarity and poverty
  

• EU external relations and the new trade agenda
  

Friday afternoon: Plenary on policy proposals from workshops and special plenary 'The Economics of the European Constitution: Locking in Austerity'

• Agustín José Menéndez (ARENA Centre for European Studies; University of Léon, Department of Public Law, Spain)
  

• Magnus Ryner (Department of European and International Studies, King's College London)
  

Saturday morning: Planning meeting: EuroMemorandum 2016 and other activities