18 April 2023

Invitation to the media:Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe with the Latvian President Egils Levitsand subsequent panel discussion with the Ukrainian ambassador, Oleksii Makeiev, among others

Portrait of the president of Latvia, Egils Levits, and event announcement

Photo: Universität Hamburg

The Latvian president and alumnus of Universität Hamburg, Egils Levits, will talk about Europe’s future as a community of laws and shared values.

What holds Europe together? This is the guiding question for the Hamburg Vigoni Forum on research, policy, and society as participants discuss the future of Europe. Universität Hamburg hosts the Forum as an international strategy conference in collaboration with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, and Villa Vigoni, the German-Italian center for European dialogue.

The Latvian president and alumnus of Universität Hamburg, Egils Levits, held the first Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe on the topic of Europe’s future as a community of laws and shared values. The talk contextualized Europe’s strategic sovereignty in the shadow of the Russian attack on Ukraine and with regard to the turning point in European politics that the attack has ushered in.

The subsequent panel discussion focused on the ideas raised in the talk and the Ukrainian ambassador Oleksii Makeiev and others reflected upon the question as to what holds the European Union together in the face of national and international crises.

We cordially invite you to the

Hamburger Rede zur Zukunft Europas

28 April 2023, 5–7 pm (admission: 4:15–4:45 pm)

atrium of the State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky

, entrance: Edmund-Siemers-Allee/Ecke Grindelallee, 20146 Hamburg

The media deadline to sign up is 24 April 2023 at alexander.lemonakis"AT"uni-hamburg.de.

We ask for your understanding that admission is no longer possible after 4:45 pm.

Program:

5 pm: Welcome:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, president of Universität Hamburg

5:15 pm: Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe.

Egils Levits, president of the Republic of Latvia

6 pm:

Egils Levits, president of the Republic of Latvia
Oleksii Makeiev, Ukrainian ambassador to Germany
Almut Möller, state secretary and representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the European Union, and for foreign affairs

Moderation

Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, president of the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, academic director of the Forum, and
Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder, academic director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Universität Hamburg

The financed through the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments. For more information, see www.hamburg-vigoni.de.

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