We will commemorate the 10 years anniversary of (Global) Financial crisis. Early first warning signs of crisis began in 2007 with a crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the US. It developed into a full-blown international banking and financial crisis with collapse of different investments bank, such as Lehman Brothers, on week of September 14, 2008. Excessive risk taken by banking system contributed to increase financial impact globally.

A crisis which reappeared in a number of different guises, but never really went away: an economic recession, a sovereign debt crisis in Europe and finally a crisis of political legitimacy.

This celebration will be an opportunity to deconstruct an amount of myths on multi-dimension of crisis: financial, economic and finally political since 2008 in Europe and within Member States, with our keynote speaker, Pr. Dr. David Bassens. The conference will be an opening to a panel debate with representatives of civil societies and political actors of various places and countries within Europe. It will allow to question the place of cities, as a new democratic actor to counter effects of financial, economic crisis and their austerity management by member states and European Union.

PROGRAMME
18:30 – 19:00 Conference by Pr. David Bassens
19:00 – 20:00 Panel debate: Eyes on Athens / Eyes on Frankfurt / Eyes on Barcelona / Eyes on Brussels
20:00 – 20:30 Debate with the audience

Organised by Brussels Academy, FairFin & Cosmopolis