Symposium: The Lisbon Treaty and the Future of the European Union

Published: 13 January 2012

This international symposium focuses on the future of Europe in light of the Reform Treaty. 6-7 December 2007

This international symposium focuses on the future of Europe in light of the Reform Treaty. Key themes of the symposium included analysis of the Treaty as well as perspectives of the Founding Member States, Newer Member States in West Europe, as well as Central & East Europe.

An outline of the sessions that took place is as follows:

  •  Analysis of the Reform Treaty (Carbone, Cram, Peterson, Ponzano, Schopflin)
  •  Perspectives of the
  •  Founding Member States
  •  Drake and Lequesne on France;
  •  Bulmer and Schweiger on Germany;
  •  Croci and Quaglia on Italy
  •  Newer Member States in West Europe
  •  Nugent on the UK;
  •  Girvin on Ireland and Denmark;
  •  Farrell on Spain
  •  Central & East Europe
  •  Lewis on Poland;
  •  Henderson on Czech Republic and Slovakia;
  •  Gruber on Hungary.

For full details check the symposium programme.

For more information about this event, please contact the Conference organiser: Dr. Maurizio Carbone, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow.

6-7 December, 2008
Wolfson Medical School, Seminar Room 2, University of Glasgow.


First published: 13 January 2012