Debating Europe's Future

The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’, which will run until February 2004, will address the uncertainties that now beset the project of European integration, with the proposal to adopt a written Constitution for Europe and the addition of ten new member states in May 2004.

With panels of leading specialists from Europe, the United States and beyond, the seminars will provide a unique opportunity to share a wide range of knowledge and experience in understanding European integration and in thinking about its possible futures.

The timing of the Cambridge seminars is particularly relevant as an Inter-governmental Conference meets in Rome to consider the proposed European Constitution. The Conference began on 4 October and looks set to continue until the Spring of 2004.

The seminars will consider the future of Europe in its widest aspects with the first seminar on 22 October looking at the constitutional problem. Other seminars will discuss the economics of Europe, its democratic power-structures, the problems arising from Europe’s troubled history, and Europe’s potentiality as a world power. The last seminar in February 2004 will consider the future of European culture, the Europe of the mind, and the potential role of artists and intellectuals in making Europe’s future.