23 May – There may be trouble ahead: the Coalition’s European policy

Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

2.00 – 5.45 pm followed by a drinks reception

As you know, over the past six months the Federal Trust has been running a series of conferences on the British Coalition Government’s European policy. This series of conferences has been held in conjunction with the Global Policy Institute and co-funded by the European Commission in London.

The conference series is entitled ‘The Coalition’s European Policy after the honeymoon’. The objective of these conferences has been to review the European policy of the Coalition in its second year, examining in particular the growing internal and external strains upon the compromises which have until now underpinned its actions within the European Union.

This final conference, There May be Trouble Ahead: the Coalition’s European Policy, will be the opportunity for us to launch a pamphlet summarising the discussions of the preceding conferences and offering some predictions for the future.

Our speakers are as follows: Christine Dalby, Deputy Head of Representation, European Comission in the United Kingdom, Peter Sutherland KCMG, former European Commissioner and Director General of the WTO, and Brendan Donnelly, director of the Federal Trust.

4.00 pm Registration

4.30 pm Introduction to Pamphlet

5.30 pm Questions and answers

6.30 pm Drinks reception

If you would like to attend this final event in the series, please reply to alison.sutherland@fedtrust.co.uk.

Sir Stephen Wall

The 2012 WPCT Charlemagne Lecture will be given by Sir Stephen Wall GCMG

“The British and Europe – kidding ourselves or telling it like it is?”

Wednesday 20 June at 6.30 pm in the House of Lords (Room G), preceded by a reception from 5.15 pm

Stephen Wall entered the Diplomatic Service in 1968.  From 1988-1991 he was private secretary to the Foreign Secretary and then to the Prime Minister from 1991-3.  From 1995-2000 he was Britain’s Permanent Representative to the EU, and returned to take charge of the Cabinet Office’s European Secretariat (also being EU adviser to Tony Blair at this time).  In 2008 he published “A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair”.   He was Chairman of the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust from 2005-2008.

To register, please e-mail wpctrust@gmail.com

Places are limited: tickets will be issued shortly before the event with instructions for security and entrance to the House of Lords.

Please note:

The WPCT is a charity with no regular income for maintaining its activities other than members’ subscriptions: donations at meetings are most welcome (suggested contribution £15).

Jonathan Sumption QC (picture Brick Court Chambers)

Date: Monday 14th May
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre
Speaker: Jonathan Lord Sumption
Chair: Professor Martin Loughlin

Jonathan Lord Sumption was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court in January 2012.

Sumption is known for his appearance as a barrister in the Hutton Inquiry on the UK government’s behalf, for his part in the Three Rivers case, for his representation of former Cabinet minister Stephen Byers and the UK Department for Transport in the Railtrack private shareholders’ action against the British Government in 2005, and for defending the government in an appeal hearing brought by Binyam Mohamed.

This lecture forms part of our Health of our Institutions Today series.

Further details can be found here.
Chair:
Professor Martin Loughlin. Having completed ‘Foundations of Public Law’ (2010), a companion volume to ‘The Idea of Public Law’ (2003), Professor Loughlin’s objective is to examine the impact of contemporary governmental developments on the practice of public law. ‘The Transformation of Public Law’ is, however, a long-term project.

This lecture is part of the British Government @ LSE events programme.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.

“The referendum in the United Kingdom”

Monday 21 May 2012 – 6.00 pm

Foreword: Alessandro Torre, Chairman of The Devolution Club

Chair: Brendan Donnelly,  Director of The Federal Trust

Speaker: Dennis Kavanagh, University of Liverpool

Discussant: Peter Leyland, London Metropolitan University

To be held at the Italian Cultural Institute Of London, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX

To confirm your attendance, please e-mail A.Torre@Lex.Uniba.It

Kings College London
Seminars organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at King’s College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/jmce/seminars.html

European Institute, University College London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events-view