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2010 CUSE Annual Conference

2010 CUSE Annual Conference: From the Lisbon Treaty to the Eurozone Crisis

Europe, European Union, Transatlantic Relations, Global Financial Crisis

Event Summary

With a U.S. Administration still popular across Europe and a new Lisbon Treaty designed to enhance the diplomatic reach of the European Union, transatlantic relations should now be at their best in years. But this is clearly not the case, with the strategic partners often looking in opposite directions. While the United States channels its foreign policy attention on the war in Afghanistan, counterterrorism and nuclear non-proliferation, Europe is turning inward. Despite its ambitions, the European Union has yet to achieve the great global role to which it aspires, or to be the global partner that Washington seeks. Moreover, the Greek financial crisis has raised questions about the very survival of the European project.

CUSE Annual Conference

Event Information

When

Wednesday, June 02, 2010
9:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Map

Event Materials

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

Email: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105


On June 2, the Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) at Brookings and the Heinrich Böll Foundation hosted experts and top officials from both sides of the Atlantic for the 2010 CUSE Annual Conference. Panelists explored critical issues shaping the future of transatlantic relations in the post-Lisbon Treaty era, including Europe’s Eastern neighborhood and the role Russia plays, and the impact of the Eurozone crisis.

After each panel, participants took audience questions.

Transcript

FIONA HILL: You’ll see from today’s panel that we’re coyly beginning with the idea of the beginning of Europe with the Lisbon Treaty, and ending with what we hope clearly is not the end of Europe or the economic crisis, but we hope to be provocative by getting people to think about these issues within the questions in the middle the features of European enlargement and what to do with an incorporated Europe, the neighborhoods, which, of course, includes a large number of countries that are to have a prospect or at least a desire for entry into the European Union or at least, in many cases, the hope of a partnership, a close partnership with Europe moving forward.

So, what we wanted to do with this first panel is really talk about, along with you in the audience, about what the Lisbon Treaty has really meant for the development of Europe and also what the implications are of the Lisbon Treaty for relations with the United States. 

Participants

9:30 AM - Panel 1: The Beginning of Europe? Transatlantic Relations in a Post-Lisbon Treaty Era

Moderator: Fiona Hill

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on the United States and Europe

Heather Conley

Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Mark Leonard

Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations

Andres Ortega

Director, Department of Studies and Analysis, Presidency of the Spanish Government

Jeremy Shapiro

Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State on Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Department of State

11:15 AM - Panel 2: The Borders of Europe? Dealing with Unincorporated Neighbors

Moderator: Steven Pifer

Director, Arms Control Initiative

Ivan Krastev

Chairman of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Michael Leigh

Director General, DG Enlargement, European Commission

Marie Mendras

Director, Policy Planning Staff, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Daniel Russell

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State

12:45 PM - Buffet Lunch

1:30 PM - Panel 3: The End of Europe? The Impact of the Crisis on European Integration

Moderator: Justin Vaïsse

Senior Fellow and Director of Research, Center on the United States and Europe

Ralf Fuecks

Co-President, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Andrew Moravcsik

Professor and Director, European Union Program, Princeton University

Scheherazade Rehman

Professor and Director of EU Research Center, George Washington University

Loukas Tsoukalis

President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy


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