We are delighted to announce that Federica Mogherini – the former EU High Representative and Italian foreign minister, now Rector of the College of Europe in Bruges – will give the first Europaeum annual lecture.
It is also a great honour to have former Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, Joschka Fischer joining us at this event.
The annual lecture will be hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin on Friday 7th November, from 15.30 to 17.00 hours, at their campus in south-west Berlin and has been organised in collaboration with the Una Europa alliance.
The new annual lecture is an important initiative in the Europaeum’s ‘innovation agenda’. Each November the lecture will be held at one of the network’s member universities, on or around the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and coinciding with the autumn meeting of the network’s Academic Council.
Attending in person
To attend in person, please reserve a free ticket on the eventbrite website.
Viewing the lecture online
We are planning to stream the lecture live. Further details about how to access this online, will be released closer to the lecture date. If you would like to receive information about this directly, please email us at office@europaeum.org.
This year’s Europaeum lecturer:
Federica Mogherini was an Italian deputy from 2008 to 2014, before serving as the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in 2014 and as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Vice-President of the European Commission, from 2014 to 2019. As High Representative, she chaired the EU Foreign Affairs Council (of Ministers) and headed the European External Action Service (EEAS). She has been Rector of the College of Europe since 2020 and also serves (among many other roles) as a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
Federica Mogherini will be joined by Joschka Fischer, who was Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the German Federal Republic from 1998 to 2005. He previously served as deputy prime minister and (twice as) minister for the environment and energy in Hessen. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2006. He has been a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and works as a consultant and speaker on geopolitical issues.
