EUROPA - 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome - Reflections on European Integration

50 Years of the Treaty of Rome

Conference

Dates:	23/03/07 > 24/03/07
Place:	Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1
Country:	United Kingdom
Participants:	Scholars and practitioners from across the EU and beyond
Organizer:	UACES: University Association for Contemporary European Studies, supported by the European Commission and hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
More Info:	http://www.uaces.org

The conference, co-funded by the European Commission, will provide an occasion to reflect on the evolution of European integration since the Treaty of Rome was signed and the dynamics that have underpinned this evolution.

Plenary Addresses will include contributions from:

Peter Sutherland, KCMG, former EU Commissioner
John Palmer, Member of the Governing Board of the European Policy Centre, Belgium and Commentator on European Affairs
John Kerr, GCMG, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Chairman, Imperial College

European Integration from the EEC's Founding to the Present

Chair: Brendan Donnelly, Federal Trust, UK

Wolfram Kaiser, Universityof Portsmouth
Helen Wallace, formerly of the European University Institute, Florence

Institutional and Policy Developments

Chair: Jaap de Zwaan, Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands

Mark Pollack, Temple University, USA
Simon Bulmer, Universityof Manchester
Poul Skytte Christoffersen, former Danish Permanent Representative, European Commission

The International Impact of European Integration

Chair: Knud-Erik Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Jolyon Howorth, Yale University, USA and Bath University
David Spence, Delegation of the European Commission, Geneva
Elfriede Regelsberger, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin

Economic and Monetary Union

Chair: Simon Tilford, Centre for European Reform, UK

Paul de Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Kenneth Dyson, CardiffUniversity
Nigel Wicks, Euroclear, London

Judicialization and the Role of the Courts in European Integration

Chair: Alan Dashwood, University of Cambridge, UK

David Edward, former Judge of the European Court of Justice
Jo Shaw, Universityof Edinburgh
Jürgen Schwarze, Universityof Freiburg

European Integration and the Member States

Chair: Richard Whitman, ChathamHouse, UK and University of Bath

Élisabeth Guigou, French National Assembly's Delegation to the EU
Vivien Schmidt, Franqui Chair, Brussels and Boston University, USA