Prime Minister of Luxembourg Delivers Cambridge European Trust Lecture

Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who will be giving his views on the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference.

Monsieur Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, will be visiting the University to deliver the Cambridge European Trust Lecture on Wednesday 1 March. His lecture, IGC 2000: meeting the change of the twenty-first century?, is open to all.

Prime Minister Juncker has had a distinguished political career. At the national level he was first elected Member of Parliament for the Christian Social Party in June 1984 and has served as Minister of Labour and of Finance before becoming Prime Minister in 1995. Within Europe, he has chaired the Council of Ministers for Social Affairs and served as President of the Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union. He has also been appointed Governor of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and of the European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The lecture is part of the Cambridge European Trust Lecture Series, which aims to contribute to the debate on the future of European integration by providing a forum for a wide audiences to hear the opinions and experience of key players in the development of the European Union. It is sponsored by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and the lectures are open to all.

The lecture will take place at 5.15pm, in the Faculty of Law, West Road.