The European Forum series of guest lectures began even before the official launch of CREST. It is a venue open to faculty, postgraduates, undergraduates and members of the public. Topics include issues related to the development of the European Union, a range of broader European issues including European security and relations between the EU and the former Soviet countries of Eastern Europe as well as the analysis of public policy concerns in and outside the EU.

European Forum

The UK and the European Union: Better-Off Out?

Date: 12 October
Speaker: Prof. Ulf Sverdrup, Director, Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI).

The European External Action Service: diplomatic instrument or institutional battleground

Date: 19 October
Speaker: Dr. Karolina Pomorska, University of Cambridge

From Life After UEA to Researching Global Environmental Politics and Forest Governance

Date: 2 November
Speaker: Dr. Heike Schroeder, School of International Development, UEA

The European Union's Engagement with Issues of Religious Freedom

Date: 16 November
Speaker: Dr. Sean Oliver-Dee, Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the EU

Homecomings: Returning Cultural Property to Greece and to Italy

Date: 30 November
Speaker: Prof. David Gill, University Campus, Suffolk

For further Information, please contact:
Dr Vassiliki Koutrakou, CREST, PSI, UEA,
ARTS 3.80, v.koutrakou@uea.ac.uk

To view the complete list of speakers for the previous years sessions please click on the appropriate link below.

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1998 - 1999

Threats, Interests and Time: Why an Independent Western European Defence and Security Capability is Inevitable

Date: 16 October 1998
Speaker: Dr Julian Lindley-French
Institution: European University Institute, Florence

Yeltsin's Russia: Can Things Get Any Worse?

Date: 6 November 1998
Speaker: Mike Bowker
Institution: University of East Anglia

Present Culture Action at European Level

Date: 20 November 1998
Speaker: Theodosios Mastrominas
Institution: European Commission, DGX

French Television and the French Audiovisual Landscape

Date: 4 December 1998
Speaker: Jean Noel Rey
Institution: Université de Nancy

Finland and the European Union

Date: 10 February 1999
Speaker: Pertti Salolainen
Institution: Finnish Ambassador to the UK

Redrawing the Map of Europe,/h3>

Date: 26 February 1999
Speaker: Dr Michael Emerson
Institution: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels