Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) - CIDOB Foundation think tank seminar on the EU sovereign debt crisis

On 9 November 2011, Inter-Asia research group member Sean Golden co-organised with the CIDOB Foundation of Barcelona and participated in a think tank seminar requested by a visiting delegation of scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), on the following topics: 

• The extent to which the European sovereign debt crisis has an impact on European Economic recovery, growth patterns, and relationships with trading partners;
• Rules and impact of EU economic governance vis-a-vis Spain;
• Spanish strategies towards EU governance measures;
• Spanish attitude towards IMF, World Bank, G20 and other international institutions;
• Spanish expectations of future bilateral relations with China and the role of Spain within the framework of EU China relations.

CASS Participants:

• ZHOU Hong 周弘. Deputy Director of Academy Division of International Studies and acting Director General of the Institute of European Studies (CASS)
• ZHANG Min. Professor and Dean of Science and Technology Policy Division at the Institute of European Studies (CASS).
• GAO Haihong 高海红. Professor and Director of the Section of International Finance, director of the Research Center for International Finance, Institute of World Economics and Politics (CASS).
• CHEN Xin. Director of the Economic Division at the Institute of European Studies (CASS). 
• XIONG Hou (熊厚. Sub-chief and assistant researcher of the department of European Economics (CASS).

CIDOB participants:

• Jordi Vaquer. Research Fellow and Director of CIDOB. 
• Joan Colom. Professor of Applied Economics from the Department of Economics and Public Finances at the Universitat de Barcelona. Member of the Delegation for the EU’s relation with People’s Republic of China from 1986 to 2004. Deputy Chairman of the European Parliament from 1999-2004. 
• Carmen Claudín. Senior Research Fellow and Research Director at CIDOB. 
• Seán Golden. Senior Research Fellow Associate at CIDOB. Director of the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies (UAB.
• Germà Bel. Full Professor at the University of Barcelona. 
• Edward Hugh. Macro-economist based in Barcelona. 
• Francesc Morata. Professor of political science and administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Professor Jean Monnet Ad Personam in European political integration. 
• Carme Colomina. Associate researcher at CIDOB. Director of the international section of the Catalan Newspaper ARA. 
• Pablo Astorga. Senior economist at Oxford Economics. Professor at IBEI.
• Oriol Farrés. Project Manager at CIDOB.