At the event, faculty dean Javier Junceda gave an overview of the guest speaker’s academic and professional background, as well as his vast collection of work, which includes essays and legal, historical and literary works. Junceda commended Sosa Wagner’s role as master of masters, as well as his generosity in having travelled from Brussels that morning in order to take part in this university event.

During his lecture, which was attended by about a hundred students and numerous professors from the faculty, Sosa Wagner spoke about the shape of the present-day European Union and the challenges it currently faces. He expressed his opposition to the election of Commissioners based on country quotas and condemned “the lack of in-depth knowledge of the issues among the community authorities that are accountable to the European parliament”.

Sosa Wagner painted a picture of day-to-day life in the European Parliament, especially the frenetic activity of the lobby groups that approach MPs in an attempt to influence EU policy. With that in mind, he went on to say, half jokingly and half seriously, “If man is a wolf to his fellow man, then lobby groups are wolves to MPs”.