COMUNICACIÓN

A month after the European Parliament elections, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised the course “Reinventing Europe in the Face of Current and Future Challenges”, which will be held from 17 to 19 July at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste. This course aims to analyse the major current and future European and global challenges that the new European government will face, as well as the strategies and priorities that will shape the new political cycle. The course is part of the Campus Yuste training programme organised by Yuste Foundation within the 25^th edition of the International Summer/Autumn Courses of the University of Extremadura. (15/07/2024).

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the war in the Middle East, energy and goods distribution crises, climate change and digital transformation, and the rise of populism, exacerbated by the continuous influx of false information, create great uncertainty among citizens that could lead to the weakening of democracies. However, all these challenges can be addressed by making significant changes that allow us to provide efficient and innovative responses to emerging crises while trying to maintain the momentum in defending the European model and its values both internally and externally.

The course, therefore, aims to create a forum for dialogue, reflection, and debate to define how a more resilient European Union with greater prominence on the global geopolitical map can be created as a vehicle to guarantee peace, stability, progress, and European values. Thus, some of the speakers participating include Teresa Coutinho, head of Education and Youth at the European Parliament Office in Spain; Jean Monnet ad personam professor and vice-president of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, Teresa Freixes; member of the General Courts, Carlos Floriano; director of REDELcano, Áurea Moltó; president of the Union of European Federalists, Domenec Ruiz Davesa, and alternate member of the European Committee of the Regions and director-general of External Action of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Pablo Hurtado, among other experts and professors.

This summer course has over one hundred students attending in-person and online from Belgium, China, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Portugal, and Romania.

The course is directed by Jaime Rossell, professor of Ecclesiastical Law of the State at the University of Extremadura, and Alejandro Cercas, president of the Extremaduran Council of the European Movement (CEXME) and former member of the European Parliament.