Debating Europe

The Corona pandemic confronts policy-makers and societies all over the world with the question of how far individual freedoms may be curtailed in the public interest.

Mandatory vaccination schemes further exacerbate this debate. The climate crisis, however, also often requires individuals to make painful changes in their personal lifestyle choices. How can this be reconciled with the principles of a liberal society? A high-calibre panel, chaired by Standard editor Eric Frey, will address these questions at Vienna’s Burgtheater on Sunday, 13 February. 

With Dorothee von Laer – physician and virologist, University Innsbruck, Katharina Rogenhofer – climate activist, co-initiator of the Fridays for Future movement in Austria, Wolfgang Merkel – political scientist, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Veit Dengler – Manager, Co-founder of NEOS, Visiting Fellow, Oxford University.

Chaired by: Eric Frey, Der Standard

The discussion will be held in German.

Tickets and more information: Europa im Diskurs – Debating Europe | Burgtheater

Debating Europe – Europa im Diskurs

This series of public morning debates brings leading politicians, scientists and intellectuals on to the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater to discuss topical issues of political and social relevance. This long-standing event is a collaborative production of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Burgtheater, ERSTE Foundation and Austrian daily Der Standard.