The new challenges of European politics will be the subject of the third seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, taking place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law until February 2004.

The seminar will be held on Wednesday 26 November 2003 from 5-7pm at the Faculty of Law. It will discuss the challenges faced by traditional conceptions of democracy as government is Europeanised and globalised. The speakers will discuss how Europeans, as the originators of such conceptions, have a special responsibility to respond to this challenge.

The seminar will be chaired by Lord Wilson, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and formerly Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service. Speakers will include Philip Allott, Professor of International Public Law at Cambridge University; Jack Lang, formerly Minister of Culture and formerly Minister of National Education, France; and Baroness Williams, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the House of Lords and a former Cabinet Minister.

The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’, which will run until 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 5-7pm in the Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge.

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