TTT debates

Is Europe taking a right turn?
150 150 Time To Talk
Lately, every new election seems to bring a "shock" result for the right, with parties with views commonly considered to be extreme becoming real political competitors from France to Poland and from Sweden to Italy. This TTT debate with Chantal Mouffe, Gilles Kepel and Phillip Blom asks what is behind this apparent move to the right and whether we should be concerned.
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Reading Orwell today: on freedom & the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear
150 150 Time To Talk
Books such as Animal Farm and 1984 are known worldwide, but what is George Orwell's relevance today, how prescient were his predictions, how do his writings inform us about our own situations and what impact has his work had posthumously?
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Against silence: on freedom of expression in Europe
150 150 Time To Talk
Lately, the actions of both state and non-state actors have led to increasing concerns about the state of freedom of expression in Europe. Join Claire Fox, Miklos Haraszti and Agnieszka Holland for a discussion about free speech and censorship in Europe today.
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Social Europe: a progressive utopia or a bitter necessity?
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Suggestions for the salvation of the European Economic and Monetary Union are throwing up some surprises, with proposals for a European minimum wage and union-wide unemployment benefits now being taken seriously. To find out why and how feasible such ideas are, join Siman Abdi, Anton Hemerijck, Frank Vandenbroucke & Tom Vrijens.
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Free speech in Central Europe: where are the boundaries?
150 150 Time To Talk
Project Forum look at free speech in Central Europe and the very different scenarios in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. A discussion about the slow and legal process of bringing a country's media scene under state control and the free speech/hate speech dilemma in a time of right wing revival.
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What are the merits of economic contraction, is degrowth the way forward?
150 150 Time To Talk
People are looking for alternative economic models, among them degrowth. deBuren look at the pros and cons, asking whether the prioritisation of economic growth is harmful for our societies and environment and what the implementation of a degrowth influenced economic policy would look like.
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Do we need economic growth?
150 150 Time To Talk
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, there has been much talk about our economic models, with the pre-crisis prioritisation of growth coming into disrepute. This Freiblick debate asks whether we still need economic growth and what the positive arguments for its continued retention would be.
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Is there an alternative to the growth imperative?
150 150 Time To Talk
Climate change awareness has moved on leaps and bounds this millenium, but our lifestyles continue to be fossil fuelled, our foodstuffs unsustainably harvested and our companies focused on destructive models of wealth and resource extraction. What impact are these approaches having and how can we respond to form an economically sound and socially justifiable future beneficial to us all?
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Is degrowth a realistic alternative to today’s profit imperative?
150 150 Time To Talk
As whispers about the next economic crash grow louder, The Red House looks at the degrowth movement and its potential as an alternative to today's consumerist, profit-based economies.
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The limits of European solidarity: has Europe forgotten Ukraine and Greece?
150 150 Time To Talk
In the wake of the Paris attacks and the migrant crisis, The Red House asks where the limits of European solidarity lie. Do we lack solidarity or are we overwhelmed by conflicting solidarities? And, now that we've moved on to the next crises, are we really still interested in the fates of Ukraine and Greece?
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The CEF 2015 – Everyone is lying
326 326 Time To Talk
The seventh installment of the Central European Forum looked at disinformation and the way that its seeming infiltration of reporting is affecting the way we perceive the world around us. A weekend looking at propaganda, memory, media manipulation, Russia and the West.
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The exodus to Europe: has migration highlighted a European crisis of social solidarity?
150 150 Time To Talk
Following the summer's Greek crisis, the influx of refugees and migrants has highlighted disagreements in the EU and raised questions about our desire and our ability to come to common agreement. A debate on Grexit, Brexit, humanism, pragmatism, the East/West divide and how to move forwards.
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