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Leading Europe? The UK EU Presidency Evaluated

Programme

09:00-09:30 Welcome
Richard Whitman, Chatham House and University of Bath
Jo Shaw, UACES and University of Edinburgh
 
09:30-10:00 Keynote Address
Nicola Brewer Director General, European Union, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
[transcript of speech]
 
10:00-11:15 Session One - Did the Presidency Realise its Objectives?
Chair: Jackie Gower, King's College London

Sir Stephen Wall, Vice Chair, Business for New Europe
Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times
Wyn Rees, University of Nottingham
 
11:15-11:45 Tea and Coffee sponsored by John Harper Publishing
 
11:45-13:00 Session Two - Future Financing
Chair: Claudia Hamill, Council Member, Chatham House

John Peet, The Economist
Jim Rollo, University of Sussex
John Palmer, European Policy Centre
 
13:00-14:00 Lunch
 
14:00-15:15 Session Three - Enlargement and Foreign Policy
Chair: Karen Smith, London School of Economics & Political Science

Antonio Missiroli, European Policy Centre
Stephen Woolcock,  London School of Economics & Political Science
Spros Economides,  London School of Economics & Political Science
 
15:15-15:45 Tea and Coffee
 
15:45-17:00 Session 4 - The EU and the UK: The State of Play After the Presidency
Chair: Jo Shaw, UACES and University of Edinburgh

Quentin Peel, Financial Times
Roger Liddle, Commissioner Mandelson's Cabinet, European Commission
Julie Smith, University of Cambridge
 
17:00 -17:45 Reception
 

 


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