Vivien Schmidt testimony before the European Parliament
On October 4, 2012, I gave testimony to the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, which held an all-day inquiry into European Governance and the Future of Europe. My policy brief - EU Differentiated Integration and the Role of the EU Political Economy [download pdf] - addressed specifically "Multi-tier Governance and EU Political Economy." I also gave a keynote speech to the European Parliament's party grouping of social democrats, the second largest party in the EP, at a special session on "The Future of Europe."
[Video recording of the October 4 afternoon session - Panel III & IV: Legitimacy, future prospects]
To start, put the recording time start at A 9:16:00 end B 12.35:00 and for the afternoon session A 15:10:30 B 18.27:00. Vivien Schmidt's intervention begins at around 17h.
The workshop took place as part of an initiative of the European Parliament to report on the "Constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the European Union." The report's objective is to formulate a broad reflection on the state of EU governance in the "post fiscal pact" Union and to develop a strategy that will incorporate, in the medium term, economic governance into the Union system, improve the institutional set up of the Union and strengthen its democratic legitimacy while maintaining the consistency and dynamism of the European construction.