Workshop III: What Union After the IGC 2003/4?
16 December 2003, London

The third Workshop of the UACES / Federal Trust Study Group on 'The Convention and the 2004 IGC' is timed either to provide an assessment of progress at the IGC before its endgame, or otherwise its output - which is expected to take the form of a Constitutional Treaty.

In line with previous Workshops in the series, the Federal Trust welcomes contributions from different analytical perspectives on the themes listed below.

 1. Achieving Balance? Institutions and Member States

2. Coping with diversity? Challenges in the field of defence, economic governance and the future reform of the Union.

The Workshop will aim at assessing the output of the IGC and the changes it may make to: the inter-institutional balance; the small and large countries balance; and the relations between old Member States and the Accession States.

If you would like to contribute a paper to this Workshop, please send an abstract (300 words max.) before 17 November 2003 to constitution@fedtrust.co.uk . Where it proves impossible to include a paper which has been proposed in the Workshop Programme, an opportunity to table the paper at the Workshop will be given. This may be of particular interest to Postgraduate Students, whose attendance at the Workshop is facilitated through payment of 50% travel expenses by UACES

If you would like to contribute to one of the panels, or would like to act as a chair / discussant for any of them, please contact Anna Vergés Bausili / Erin Delaney at the Federal Trust.  (Please note that unfortunately we are neither able to cover travel costs for attendees nor speakers.)

Workshop II: The Convention on the future of Europe: theoretical perspectives and substantive issues
11 July 2003, London

Three panels are planned, each comprising three papers and one chair/discussant. The panels will deal with the following issues:

1. Theoretical perspectives on the Convention method/ reform process as well as wider implications for EU Constitutionalism and constitutionalisation. 2. European governance and institutional reform 3. Developments in substantive policy areas (e.g. economic governance, CFSP, etc.)