European vs public identity: is confirmation existing?

On May 16, 2017 the space bridge “European vs public identity: is confirmation existing?” was arranged in the Barents EU Centre within the framework of EU Research Club.
The Club has existed since 2012 and it was created within the framework of the project “Establishing the EU Centre in the Barents Region of Russia”, implemented under financial support of the European Union.
This time the meeting had the format of space bridge with the representatives from the Faculties of Law, Economics and Philology and public members participated in the meeting. Such variety of participants allowed to discuss the questions of EU development, public identity and relations between Russian and the EU from different points of view.
The meeting was arranged during the interesting period when some questions related to external policy of the EU and European identity were especially sharp. Thus, the discussian was very active. So, both sides came to conclusion that such meetings should be conducted more often as they allow to exchange the opinions and be informed about first-hand position of experts.