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The sixth of a series of interviews of European Left leaders "Meeting the Left".
Walter Baier and Tatiana Moutinho interview Clémentine Autain. At the end of the interview questions from the audience were taken.
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Clémentine Autain is a French politician and journalist. She is a member of Ensemble, a political organisation founded in 2013 and and former components of Front de Gauche. In June 2017, she was elected Member of National Assembly for La France Insoumise. She is publishing director of the magazine Regards.fr and she was co-secretary of the Fondation Copernic.
Tatiana Moutinho, a Porto-based facilitator of transform! europe in the programme “Cooperation Strategies for Southern Europe" and the President of Cul:tra - Cooperativa Culturas de Trabalho e Socialismo (Portugal).
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Walter Baier, economist in Vienna, he was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 he has been the Coordinator of the network transform! europe.
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The main focus of all discussions will be the impact of the pandemic on the economic, social, political, and cultural life of particular countries. We have seen that the EU’s failure to address the health crisis and provide support to the most affected states has changed the way the Union is perceived in parts of Europe. To what extent and with what consequences does this apply to the countries whose parties our interviewees represent? How can the left cope with the economic and social crisis and the recession that is very likely to come in its wake? How do the left parties connect their national strategies to global problems, in particular the influx of refugees and the answers urgently required by the global environmental crisis.
The sixth of a series of interviews of European Left leaders "Meeting the Left".
Walter Baier and Tatiana Moutinho interview Clémentine Autain. At the end of the interview questions from the audience were taken.
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Clémentine Autain is a French politician and journalist. She is a member of Ensemble, a political organisation founded in 2013 and and former components of Front de Gauche. In June 2017, she was elected Member of National Assembly for La France Insoumise. She is publishing director of the magazine Regards.fr and she was co-secretary of the Fondation Copernic.
Tatiana Moutinho, a Porto-based facilitator of transform! europe in the programme “Cooperation Strategies for Southern Europe" and the President of Cul:tra - Cooperativa Culturas de Trabalho e Socialismo (Portugal).
and
Walter Baier, economist in Vienna, he was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 he has been the Coordinator of the network transform! europe.
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The main focus of all discussions will be the impact of the pandemic on the economic, social, political, and cultural life of particular countries. We have seen that the EU’s failure to address the health crisis and provide support to the most affected states has changed the way the Union is perceived in parts of Europe. To what extent and with what consequences does this apply to the countries whose parties our interviewees represent? How can the left cope with the economic and social crisis and the recession that is very likely to come in its wake? How do the left parties connect their national strategies to global problems, in particular the influx of refugees and the answers urgently required by the global environmental crisis.
