Description

Independence aspirations by stateless nations in concrete political terms in Europe are legitimated by the people and their vote, the sovereign of these terrories. However, the question of "how" differs ideologically not only on the way of gaining independence but also the design of the relations with the state they want to secede from. As also being part of the European Union, a possible reference model might here be given for both, the state and the territory, when it comes to modes of sharing sovereignty, not only on the European, but also on the state level. On both, the state and the territorial level, the driving political forces are in large ways Europe-friendly. 

Is a plurinational democracy PD is possible? This workshop aims to explore possibilities for a future plurinational democracy model on the state-level, it's potential and possible limits and highlight the EU not only as an already existing model but also as an important actor within this model. State leaders proposing PD at the EU level claim that it is not workable at the Member State level. These contradictions suggest that an informed debate is necessary on this issue, for both academic and political reasons. 

• Speaker: Hans-Jürgen Zahorka. Assessor jur. former Member of European Parliament, Chief Editor of "European Union Foreign Affairs Journal" (EUFAJ), Member of TEAM EUROPE (Germany), Government Advisor  and Senior Lecturer at various European universities.
• With comments by: Joxerramon Bengoetxea, ehuGune (EHU/UPV), Igor Filibi (EHU/UPV) and Matthias Major (PhD candidate at EHU/UPV). 
• Language: English.