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Academic conference on 30 years Maastricht Treaty: the past, present, and future of European Integration

28 September - 29

Keynote lecture by Thomas Piketty: Rising inequality and the democratisation of Europe

28 September

Keynote lecture by Paul de Grauwe: 'The fragility of the eurozone: endemic or temporary?'

29 September

Mestreech ’92: local memories of the Maastricht Treaty as cultural heritage

5 October

Launch Oral History Project

7 December
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Studio Europa Maastricht

Working on Europe

Centre of expertise for
academic research,
European heritage and
public debate

Dr Alvaro Oleart

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Alvaro Oleart is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University. I am the author of the book “Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration”, published by the Palgrave series in European Political Sociology. The core of my academic research has been the interactive relationship between national and European politics, both from a public sphere and an institutional perspective, and my main fields of interest are political communication, the European public sphere, the role of civil society in the EU policy-making, transnational social movements, EU trade policy, populism and democracy in Europe, and the analysis of discourse and narratives. In Studio Europa Maastricht, Alvaro Oleart is focusing his research on the Conference on the Future of Europe in general, and on the European Citizen Panels in particular.