Brexit: Why and How?
Lecture
Aneurin (Nye) Hughes had an eminent career with the British Foreign Office and was Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Australia and New Zealand from 1995 to 2002. Mr Hughes has an intricate knowledge of European affairs, having first joined the Commission in…
The State of the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities
Seminar
Mr Ruete’s initial post at the European Commission was in DG Social Affairs (Health and Nuclear Safety). He then moved to DG Internal Market (first TV without frontiers, then assistant to the Director General), becoming Head of the Industrial Cooperation Unit in DG Industry in 1993. From 1995 to…
Ukraine’s path to the EU: Challenges and Perspectives
Lecture
Ukraine is one of the biggest countries in Europe. For more than three years Ukraine has been defending its choice of European values, not only by tackling internal, global and European challenges but by confronting military aggression from its closest neighbour, a permanent member of the UN…
2017 EU Summer School: The European Union after Brexit: Implications for Europeans, British, Australians & New Zealanders
Advisory session
The world was stunned in June 2016 when citizens in the United Kingdom voted for Britain to leave the European Union. On top of challenges posed by massive migration, terrorism and continuing economic difficulties, this was a severe blow to the European Union’s plans to achieve major gains for the…
Breaking point? British citizens’ fears, projections and polarisation on the way to Brexit.
Seminar
Michael Bruter joined the LSE in 2001 having previously been employed by the University of Houston (USA) and the University of Hull. Dr Bruter received his undergraduate degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Bordeaux (France), Masters from the Universities of Hull and Bordeaux, and his…
Big Ideas: European innovation and Europe's place in the world
Other
DisCERNing Science Tuesday 29 November 2016 Time: 8:05pm Stepping inside the world’s greatest experiment - CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Thousands of scientists from across the globe are at work at CERN’s Large HadronCollider. They have one thing in common – their passion to uncover the…
Brexit Reframed: English Nationalism, Euroscepticism and the Anglosphere
Seminar
The Anglosphere was one of the surprise winners of the 2016 referendum campaign. As an explicitly stated concept it appeared early on in the campaign but soon faded from view. But where it did play a part in the campaign was less as a unitary concept but more in its constituent parts:…