In 2014 Europe will vote - for the European Parliament, at least. It will be the first opportunity for people across Europe to take stock of the situation during the debt crisis in a democratic manner. If European unity and the euro, as its symbolic currency, are to endure, then real efforts are needed with national concessions and painful adjustments.
Above all, we need broader debate and clarification of fundamental questions which are still unresolved: Do we want a Europe of nation states, or a federation? A fiscal union or a rigorous Maastricht 2.0 as a concerted policy pursued by each nation state? Centralization and unification, or unity and competition in diversity? A transfer union, or national responsibility and ad hoc solidarity?
Up to now, the various rescue efforts have served, first and foremost, to buy time
– but for what? Where should Europe and its currency be going, how far, and with whom? Allianz SE and Stiftung Marktwirtschaft have invited key decision-makers and experts to the Allianz Forum on Pariser Platz in Berlin, in order to discuss these important questions.
| 5:00 p.m. | Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Global Head of Group Public Policy and Economic Research (GPER)
Prof. Dr. Michael Eilfort, Stiftung Marktwirtschaft Board of Management |
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| 5:15 p.m. | Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of Finance |
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| 5:45 p.m. | Dr. Jens Weidmann, President of the German Bundesbank |
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| 6:15 p.m. | Panel discussion "Quo vadis Europa?" |
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| approx. 7:30 p.m. | End of event |
