This meeting was an opportunity for the IRG and its partners to set off critical thinking on issues of power in Europe.

Within the framework of the 13th edition of the Franco-German dialogue – Thinking tomorrow’s Europe, the Institute for Research and Debate on Governance (IRG) organized, with the Deutsch-Französisches Institut (www.dfi.deenstart.shtml), the “The comeback of the Nation-State, populism and political disenchantment: the issues of EU legitimacy and traditional democratic models in Europe” workshop.

The Franco-German dialogue - Thinking Tomorrow’s Europe is organized by ASKO EUROPA-STIFTUNG, in collaboration with:

• Centre international de formation européenne, Nice/Berlin

• Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l’Homme, Paris

• Institut franco-allemand, Ludwigsburg

• Institut de politique européenne, Berlin