Ever Closer Union? Prospects for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy

When?

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 15:00 to 17:00

Where?

TBC

Open to:

Alumni, Staff, Students

Ever Closer Union? Prospects for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy

Prof Anand Menon (King's College London) versus Dr Sven Biscop (Egmont Institute, Brussels)

The Lisbon Treaty was supposed to make the EU a more effective and unified actor on the global stage, with its own diplomatic service and joined-up policies. But have these hopes been realised? And what are the likely developments in the EU's foreign and security policies, especially given the apparent shift towards a two-tier Europe in which one of the key defence players, the UK, is in the second division or even out of the league altogether?