On 4 February 2020, the Foundation organised, with the support of the University of Lausanne, a dialogue on Social Europe. The event was held on the university campus with an audience of around 80 people from the diplomatic, academic and trade union worlds as well as the academic community.
The debate, which brought together Pat Cox, President of the Foundation, former President of the European Parliament and of the European Movement International, and Per Hilmersson, Deputy Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation, provided an opportunity to address this subject from different points of view: social issues, the role of trade unions, Swiss-EU relations. Thérèse de Liedekerke, Deputy Director General of BusinessEurope, unfortunately had to cancel her participation after the invitations were sent out.
The keynote speeches of the speakers were followed by an exchange between them and then by a question and answer session with the audience, moderated by Pat Cox.
00:00:00 Opening by Pat Cox
00:06:18 Intervention of Per Hilmersson
00:27:12 Debate with the public
