This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts) and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research)
Rapid growth in the emerging powers, and in Asia in particular, presages a long period of relative economic decline for the so-called advanced economies including the European Union (EU). The challenge for the advanced economies is not to reverse that decline but rather to manage domestic politics, economies and foreign economic policy in a way that maximises economic potential and influence and avoids relative decline becoming absolute. The EU is not well positioned to meet that challenge. Demographics, economic performance and domestic politics all present difficulties. This presentation explores these challenges and makes recommendations about how EU economic policy at home and abroad may need to change to allow the EU to continue to be a confident player on the world stage in the 21st century.
Professor Jim Rollo has been Professor of European Economic Integration at the University of Sussex in the UK since 1999. He was Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute, as well as editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies (2003 -2010). He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (CARIS) and Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House. Prior to 1999 he was Chief Economic Advisor to the British Foreign Office and has 30 years of experience as an economist in the British government. Professor Rollo has been a consultant to the World Bank, the EU Commission, UNCTAD, the government of Poland, and several government departments in the UK. He has published widely on international economic issues, principally in the field of EU policy and trade policy. His main research interests are trade policy and the economics of preferential trade liberalisation, agricultural policy, EU enlargement and EMU.
To view the flyer for this event please see: The Challenges of the Changing World Economy for Europe
