The Future of the European Union

Start: Oct 17 2008 - 10:00am

End: Oct 17 2008 - 12:00pm

Event Description:

First Annual Altiero Spinelli Lecture Featuring Giuliano Amato

Friday, October 17, 2008, 10:00 am — 12:00 pm

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Root Room, 1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

On October 7, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings (CUSE) will host Giuliano Amato, the former Italian prime minister and vice president of the European Constitutional Convention, to deliver the First Annual Altiero Spinelli Lecture. Amato will explore the future of the European Union, looking at its internal evolution after the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, and at its international role in light of the forthcoming American elections and the turbulence on Europe’s eastern borders.

Giuliano Amato was a professor of comparative constitutional law at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1975 to 1997 and is now professor emeritus at the European University Institute in Florence. He twice served as Italy’s prime minister, from 1992-1993 and in 2000-2001. He has also been a member of Parliament, minister of interior, under secretary to the prime minister's office, minister of the treasury, minister for constitutional reforms and deputy prime minister.

Senior Fellow and CUSE Director Daniel Benjamin will provide welcoming remarks. Brookings President Strobe Talbott will give introductory remarks and Visiting Fellow Federiga Bindi will moderate the discussion. After the program, Professor Amato will take audience questions.

Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) was one of the leading proponents of an integrated Europe and a founding father of what is today the European Union. A co-founder of the European Federalist Movement, and Spinelli served as a European commissioner from 1970 to 1974, and then as member of the European Parliament from 1976 to 1986.

Welcoming Remarks
Introduction

Daniel Benjamin

Senior Fellow and Director
Center on the United States and Europe
The Brookings Institution
Strobe Talbott

President
The Brookings Institution

Featured Speaker
Moderator

Giuliano Amato

Former Prime Minister of Italy and
Vice President of the European Constitutional Convention

Federiga Bindi
Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution

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