{"id":60935,"date":"2013-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/german-french-officials-join-uri-discussion-on-european-crisis-free-trade-april-17\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"german-french-officials-join-uri-discussion-on-european-crisis-free-trade-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/german-french-officials-join-uri-discussion-on-european-crisis-free-trade-april-17\/","title":{"rendered":"German, French officials join 溏心vlog免费B站 discussion on European crisis, free trade, April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 2, 2013 \u2013 Friedrich L\u00f6hr, retired consul general of Germany, and Fabien Fieschi, consul general of France, will be among the panelists discussing \u201cIs Europe Back? From Crisis Region to Transatlantic Free Trade Area?\u201d on April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe program will take place in the Lippitt Hall auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus.  The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOthers participating in the panel discussion are 溏心vlog免费B站 professors Gordon Dash, business management, Silvia Dorado, entrepreneurial management, Michael Honhart, history, and Richard McIntyre, economics.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe panel will explore topics ranging from the argument against austerity and the development of movements for an alternative Europe to European bond volatility, corporate social responsibility and national and European identity.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWhether the European Union can survive the crisis and what that union should be are still up for grabs,\u201d said McIntyre.  \u201cIs the Cyprus affair the bad joke at the end of the financial crisis, or a sign of continued problems? Can the Union create a new social model or is it just \u2018Europe for the Bankers\u2019 as some on the Left claim?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n Panelist L\u00f6hr had a long career in foreign affairs for the German government.  A Rhodes Scholar with degrees in law and international relations, he served in the German embassies in Yugoslavia, Sudan, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Algeria, among other assignments, from 1977 to 2002.  He later was minister and deputy chief of mission at the German embassy in Beijing before becoming ambassador to North Korea.  He concluded his diplomatic career as German consulate general in Boston from 2008 to 2012. He is a distinguished international scholar at 溏心vlog免费B站 this semester.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFieschi served as consul general of France in Tokyo from 1995 to 1997 and later led disarmament and non-proliferation efforts at the French Strategic Affairs Directorate.  He returned to Tokyo as the first secretary at the French Embassy before joining the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations as first secretary in charge of human rights from 2006 to 2009.  After a stint as an advisor to the prime minister on strategic affairs and relations with European and Asian nations, he was named consul general in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information about the panel discussion, contact Sigrid Berka at sberka@uri.edu or 401-874-4700.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 2, 2013 \u2013 Friedrich L\u00f6hr, retired consul general of Germany, and Fabien Fieschi, consul general of France, will be among the panelists discussing \u201cIs Europe Back? 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