‘Brussels Days - Day 2’

10:00-11:00 Conference: artificial intelligence
Cédric Villani, mathematician, winner of the Fields 2010 medal, MP of Essonne En marche (France)

11:00-12:15 European city of the future
Laurent Alexandre, essayist, co-founder of Doctissimo.fr, author of La guerre des intelligences (France)
Philippe Close, Mayor of the city of Brussels (Belgium)
Etienne Davignon, former vice-president of the European Commission (Belgium)
Patrick Ropert, Director General of SNCF Gares et Connexions (France)
Moderated by Matthieu Croissandeau, managing editor of l’Obs

12:30-13:30 Relaunching Europe: a utopia?
Didier Reynders, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs since 2011 (Belgium)
Moderated by Jurek Kuczkiewicz, editor in chief Le Soir

13:30-15:00 Culture and creation in Europe
Speech by Françoise Nyssen, Minister of culture (France)
Paul Dujardin, CEO of BOZAR
Olivier Guez, author, prix Renaudot 2017 for La disparition de Josef Mengele (France)
Thomas Ostermeier, director (Germany)
Philippe Sands, lawyer, writer, finalist of the Prix Médicis Essais 2017 for Retour à Lemberg (Great-Brittain)
Moderated by Matthieu Croissandeau, managing editor of l’Obs and Beatrice Delvaux, editorialist Le Soir

15:15-16:45 A new vision for European youth
Elena Calistru, founder of Funky Citizens (Romania)
Kristof Calvo, member of the Flemish Green Party, head of the parliamentary group of the Green party at the House of Representatives (Belgium)
Andras Fekete-Gyor, president and founder of the Momentum movement (Hungary)
Guillaume Klossa, essayist Une jeunesse européenne, founder of Civico Europa (France)
Luis Alvaredo Martinez, President of the European Youth Forum (Spain)
Moderated by Pierre Haski, editorialist at l’Obs

17:00-18:30 A different way of thinking about Europe 
Ivan Krastev, political scientist (Bulgaria) 
Chantal Mouffe, philosopher (Belgium)
Slawomir Sierakowski, sociologist, columnist, founder of the quarterly journal Krytyka Polityczna (Poland)
Moderated by Ruud Goossens, journalist at De Standaard and Jurek Kuczkiewicz, editor in chief at Le Soir

18:30 Meet the writer: Eric Vuillard
Prix Goncourt 2017 L'Ordre du jour. More info >