9 November 2009, 10.00-13.00
Turin, Palazzo Lascaris

The Regional Council of Piedmont and the World Political Forum organized in Turin a public discussion on the theme: “1989 - Year of the political Earthquake in Europe“.

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the popular revolutions which have transformed the political landscape in Eastern Europe, this event provided an occasion to reflect on the sources and driving forces of these historic changes as well as about the way in which they have marked the image of the new integrated and enlarged Europe.
Five prominent experts coming for Poland, Russia, Germany, Great Britain and Italy took part to the debate:

Enzo Bettiza, Journalist, Writer, Columnist for La Stampa, Italy
Andrei Grachev, former Spokesman of President Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia
John Lloyd, Journalist, Columnist for the Financial Times, UK
Wolfgang Schluchter, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Heidelberg Universität; Director, Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg Universität, Germany
Henryk Szlajfer, Professor of Political Sciences, Warsaw University and Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

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