Publication: Impulses from the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum for a European policy agenda for the future

17 February 2022

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"What holds Europe together?" Reflecting on this question is more relevant and worthwhile than ever given current major global changes and substantial upheavals. The University of Hamburg, in cooperation with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue Villa Vigoni, has therefore launched a conference series under this guiding theme - the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum.

The idea of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum is to bring together research, politics, and society to discuss the future of Europe. We are less concerned with detailed day-to-day political issues than with an overall integration policy concept and the three major narratives relevant to this - "Space - Sovereignty - Identity". With the participation of internationally renowned academics, the interdisciplinary forum aims to develop practice-orientated proposals for the future design of the European integration process and submit them to politics and society. At the same time, the ideas are to be jointly developed and fed into public discourse.

The first workshop of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum took place from 16-18 October 2021 at Villa Vigoni in Menaggio. The face-to-face event lasted three days and marked the start of the seven-year conference series. The results of the workshop have now been published in German as the first in a series of notes from the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum: "Impulse des Hamburg-Vigoni Forums für eine europapolitische Zukunftsagenda".