Webinar "European sentiments: sovereignism and Europeanism" and European Project EAST, 24 September

Following the forth issue of L'orizzonte degli eventi. Quaderni geopolitici e analisi giuridiche (click here to download), the magazine of our Study Center, and considering the forthcoming end of the EAST project, AMIStaDeS is pleased to launch the event about "European sentiments: sovereignism and Europeanism under test".

The event will start by presenting the results of the Entrepreneurship as Self-employment Tool (EAST), a European project in which AMIStaDeS has been involved as an Italian partner. EAST was mainly directed at unemployed people, including migrants and people at risks of social exclusion. Its objective was to implement a training programme aimed at the development of entrepreneurship and small business management skills.

In the second part of the event, our analysts will present the No. 4 of L'orizzonte degli eventi, thus providing an overview of the origins, developments and features of the Europeanism and sovereignism’ phenomena. In particular, the discussion will focus on the countries that, despite being part of the Union, do not apply its principles and values at the internal level. The Brexit case will also be addressed, as a landmark of the Euroscepticism wave. In the end, the rise of the Eurosceptic parties in Italy and their impact on the EU perception among the population will be investigated.

For the EAST presentation our speakers will be:

Claudia Candelmo

Secretary General and Responsible for Orizzonte degli Eventi, AMIStaDeS

Federica De Paola

International Projects Director, AMIStaDeS

Followed by the authors of Orizzonte degli Eventi:

Eugenia Esposito

Communication Assistant, European Union Analyst, AMIStaDeS

Marco D’Amato

Communication Director, European Union Analyst, AMIStaDeS

The event will start at 6:30 pm on Google Meet.

L’incontro, che avrà inizio alle ore 18:30, si terrà su Google Meet.

>> Participation is free of charge only upon registration on the dedicated form.

Speakers’ short bios

Claudia Candelmo. Political Science and International Relations graduate. She received her doctorate in Public, Comparative and International Law, in 2017 from Sapienza University. She had been a Visiting fellowat Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg) and European University Institute (Fiesole). Since 2015, she has been cooperating with the chairs of International Organisations Law, European Union Law and International Law at LUISS and Sapienza University. She is currently a Research Fellow in European Union Law at LUISS University and Adjunct Professor of European Union Law at Universitas Mercatorum. In addition, she holds the position of instructor and qualified advisor for international humanitarian law enforcement of the Italian Red Cross. She is also co-founder and Secretary-General of the Study Center AMIStaDeS since 2017.

Marco D’Amato. Legal expert. Thanks to his collaboration with different realities focused on education and dissemination, such as Il Caffè Geopolitico and the Study Center AMIStaDeS, he had the chance to deepen his knowledge in the fields of geopolitics and international relations, among his greatest passions. He holds the position of Communication Director and European Union Analyst at AMIStaDeS. He is also an Associate at the Italian Association Intelligence and Geopolitics Analyst (AIAIG), and a Member Executive at Privacy Network.

Federica De Paola. Political Science and International Relations graduate at Sapienza University. She earned a Master’s Degree in Diplomatic Studies at SIOI (Rome) in 2014. She wrote different essays and carried out various activities about geopolitics and current international affairs. Among the others, a cycle of seminars on conflict scenarios at the Folgore Unit. She gained a long-running experience in drafting, coordinating, managing and monitoring either transnational projects financed with European funds under direct management or national projects funded by structural and investments funds. Since 2017 she cooperates with AMIStaDeS as International Project Director and is the contact person for the European Union Area.

Eugenia Esposito. Law graduate since 2017, she attended a course on Diplomatic Studies at SIOI (Rome) and earned a 2nd-level Master’s Degree in Institutional Relations at LUISS Business School. Following some short working experiences, among which an internship at the Italian Permanent Representation in Ginevra, she has taken the position of Corporate Law Expert in a consulting firm. She has been also cooperating with AMIStaDeS since 2020 as Communication Assistant and European Union Analyst.