40 years since the First Enlargement

Welcome Address

The Impact of the First Enlargement: Transforming the States and Changing the EU?

Chair: John Palmer, Advisory Council of the Federal Trust

• Lord Douglas Hurd of Westwell
• Prof Dame Helen Wallace
• Prof Christopher Lord

The First Enlargement in Historical Perspective

Chair: Frances Lynch, University of Westminster

• Thomas Raineau (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne), 'Whitehall and Britain's accession to the EEC after 1973: Cultural Revolution or Business as Usual?'
• Helen Parr (Keele University), 'The Signifiance of Britain's 1967 Application'
• Martin Wall, 'The Irish Civil Service and the Creation of a European Policy'

The First Enlargement: Good for the EU, Good for the Acceding States?

Chair: Helen Wallace, London School of Economics & Political Science

Discussant: Michael Shackleton, Maastricht University

• Simon Usherwood (University of Surrey), 'Uploading the New European Union: Denmark, Ireland and the UK as Constitutional Entrepreneurs'
• Lee Miles (Loughborough University) & Anders Wivel (University of Copenhagen), 'A Smart State Handling a Differentiated Integration Dilemma? Concluding on Denmark in the European Union?

Keynote - The Economic Impact of Accession

Chair: Simon Bulmer, University of Sheffield

• Drew Scott, University of Edinburgh

A Changed Legal Order: Challenges for Courts

Chair: Daniela Corona, European University Institute

• Marlene Wind (University of Copenhagen), 'Denmark - a Reluctant European?'
• Elaine Fahey (University of Amsterdam), 'On the Assessment of the Operation of EU Law in the Irish Courts since Accession'
• Tamara Hervey (University of Sheffield), 'Judicial Method in EU Law Cases: Views from the Common Law'

The Impact of Accession on Domestic Politics & Society

Chair: Knud Erik Jørgensen, Aarhus University

• Pauline Beaugé de la Roque (Université Franche-Comté) 'Ireland, Irish Catholicism and the "Moral Order" Issue in the First Years of European Membership'
• Federica di Sarcina (University of Siena), 'The Impact of Community Acquis on Equal Pay in Ireland between National Economic Interests and Fundamental Right of Women in the EEC'
• Thorsten B. Olesen (Aarhus University), 'Europe in Denmark - Denmark in Europe. Processes of Europeanization and "Denmarkization" since 1972'
• Pauline Schnapper (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), 'The Impact of 40 years of the UK's membership of the EU on British Politics'

The Impact of Accession on Legal and Quasi-Legal Institutions

Chair: Tamara Hervey, University of Sheffield

• Michael Gøtze (University of Copenhagen), 'The (Danish) Ombudsman within EU Law and Policy'
• Daniela Corona (European University Institute), 'The Role of National Parliaments in the UK, Denmark and Ireland within EU Law and Policy-Making'
• Catherine Donnelly (Trinity College Dublin), 'The Impact of the European Union on Administration and Legislation in Ireland: Some General and Specific Reflections'

Roundtable - What Next for Britain and the EU?

Chair: Helen Drake, Loughborough University & UACES Chair

• Tim Bale, Queen Mary, University of London
• Peter Kellner, President of YouGov
• Mats Persson, Director of Open Europe