Europe as a World Power

The seminar will be held on Wednesday 11 February 2004 from 5-7 pm at the Faculty of Law. It will discuss the issues the inadequacy of the European Union as a focus of international power and influence, and its special responsibility for making its future, not least with a view to Europe’s own survival and prosperity.

The seminar will be chaired by Sir John Boyd, Master at Churchill College. Speakers will include Dr Christoph Bertram from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, formerly Director, International Institute of Strategic Studies and formerly foreign affairs editor, Die Zeit; M.Gérard Errera (French Ambassador to the UK); Sir Mark Tully (BBC Correspondent, India, 1965-94); and Professor William Wallace (Professor of International Relations at LSE and Lord Wallace of Saltaire).

The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’, which runs from October 2003- February 2004, 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 focus of the seminars is not the familiar political debate about Europe. The seminars are designed to debate Europe in a new and different way, as a constitutional, historical and cultural challenge.

The seminar will be held from 5-7 pm in the Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge.

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