In order to bring this transatlantic dialogue to life, we have kicked-off the project in November 2023 with a Conference on Transatlantic Work to Address the “Geographies of Discontent” hosted by Das Progressive Zentrum in cooperation with the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions in Brussels.
At the conference in Brussels, we brought together leaders and economic change practitioners from across Europe, the UK and the US with a delegation of local US-Midwestern decision-makers touring European industrial heartlands. The focus of the conference was to discuss the challenges and to share experiences on the issues that industrial heartland regions are facing.
The first podcast episode of the industrial heartlands series focuses on the keynote speech held by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, an important voice on transatlantic relations and Member of the Sounding Board of our Transatlantic Dialogue, on “The Democratic Imperative to Deliver for the Heartlands”.
The second episode showcases best practices and proposals for action from the participants of the conference in Brussels, among others John Austin, Director of the Michigan Economic Center; Jamie Driscoll, Mayor of North of Tyne in the UK; Thomas Wobben, Director for Legislative Works at the European Committee of the Regions; and Bill Peduto, former Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA, and Member of the project’s Sounding Board.
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Rachel Stieb
14. February 2024
