Europe in Crisis

Chinese Perspectives on European Crisis and the Common Environmental Crisis.

Speakers:

  • Political Counsellor (Deputy Head) Hu Hongbo, Embassy of People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of Denmark
  • PhD Fellow Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen, Asia Research Centre, Department of International Economics and Management, CBS and Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research

Discussant: Professor, dr.jur., Hanne Petersen, CECS

Moderator: Professor, dr.jur., Hanne Petersen, CECS

This seminar is part of a series of seminars organized by CECS in 2016 on Europe in Crisis. The series has so far discussed issues of Migration and Refugees in Europe, Democracy and the Role of Parliaments, BREXIT and ‘One year after Bataclan’ – The French experience in the world. This last seminar in 2016 aims to reflect on global and Chinese perspectives on the issues of the crises in the EU in relation to economy, demography, politics, climate change as well as global migration and flows of refugees.  However, it will also deal with, as well as comment on the common Environmental Crisis, where Europe has so far been at the forefront in suggesting solutions, but may now be changing place with China as a more active agent in world society.

Hu Hongbo worked as Political Affairs & Press Officer at the Chinese Embassy in Denmark from 2001-2005, and was head of the China-EU Section at the Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union from 2011-2015. He has studied at Copenhagen and Leiden Universities as well as at Université libre de Bruxelles.

PhD Fellow at Copenhagen Business Schools Asia Research Centre, Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen, does research which centers on the role of science and technology in the interplay between society and the environment in China. The focus of her PhD is the intermingling of science and politics in Chinese climate and hydropower policy making.

This seminar is part of a series of seminars organized by CECS in 2016 on Europe in Crisis, which has so far discussed issues of Migration in Europe, Democracy and the Role of Parliaments and BREXIT.