FT Business Future of Europe Lecture Series

Monday 27 April, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 4:30pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

François Bayrou (Mouvement Democrate)                                               'Imagining a Humanist Europe'       Podcast

Thursday 30 April, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Philip Bobbit (Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School) 'European Integration and the Era of the Market-State'

Tuesday 5 May, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 6:30 - 8:00pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Christopher Caldwell (Senior Editor, Weekly Standard)
'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Islam, Immigration and the West'

Thursday 7 May, U8, Tower One, 6:30 - 8:00pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Knut Vollebaek (High Commissioner on National Minorities)
'The International Politics on Minority Issues: could the early 1990s return?'

Friday 8 May, Old Theatre, Old Building, 7:00 - 8:30pm

London Festival of Europe Public Debate

Graham Watson (Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament)
'The Choice of Europeans: the 2009 European Parliament Elections'

Monday 11 May, Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building, 12:00 - 1:00pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Ivica Bocevski (Deputy Prime Minister for the Republic of Macedonia) 'The Elections in Macedonia and the European Parliament: a view from the Western Balkans'

Tuesday 19 May, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm

The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Leonard Orban (EU Commissioner for Multilingualism) 'Multilingualism: a policy for uniting Europeans'

Wednesday 11 February 2009, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute The Future of Europe Public Lecture Series
Professor Nicholas Barr (European Institute, LSE)
Respondent: Lord Turner of Ecchinswell
Chair: Nick Timmins
'Reforming Pensions in Europe: four policies in search of a politician' Thursday 26 February 2009, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute The Future of Europe Public Lecture Series
Karl Otto Pöhl (Former President of German Bundesbank)
Chair: Charles Goodhart
'The Story of the Euro: past, present and future'
Podcast here

Wednesday 4 March, 18:30-20:00
FT Business-LSE European Institute The Future of Europe Lecture Series with LSE IDEAS and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Lord Malloch Brown (Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN)
Chair: Howard Davies
'European Leadership in a Post Crisis Age?' 

Monday 9 March, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Policy Network - LSE European Institute - ELIAMEP Panel Debate in Association with FT Business
David Miliband (UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
Dick Roche (Irish Minister for European Affairs)
Frans Timmermans (Dutch Minister for European Affairs)
Professor Loukas Tsoukalis (President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP))
Sir Stephen Wall (UK Ambassador to the EU)
Chair: Maurice Fraser
'An EU 'Fit for Purpose' in a Global Age'
Podcast here

Tuesday 10 March 2009, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute The Future of Europe Public Lecture Series
Thomas Mirow (President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Chair: Professor Willem Buiter (European Institute, LSE)
'Will the Rich Man's Crisis Crush the Emerging Economies?'  
Podcast here

Wednesday 1 October 2008, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Speaker: Connie Hedegaard (Danish Minister for Climate and Energy)
Discussant: Hilary Benn MP (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Chair: Professor Judith Rees
'Negotiating a new international response to Climate Change: the prospects for COP-15 in Copenhagen 2009'

Tuesday 7 October 2008, Shaw Library, Old Building, 4:00 - 5:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture
Kris Peeters (Minister-President of Flanders)
Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
'The Role of the Regions in the EU: the Flemish Case'

Thursday 16 October 2008, Old Building, Old Theatre
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (President of Estonia)
Chair: Howard Davies
'European Security Architecture - A Paradigm Shift?'

*EVENT CANCELLED*
Friday 17 October 2008, Shaw Library, Old Building, 5:00 - 6:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture in association with the LSESU Scandinavian Society
Kristin Halvorsen (Norwegian Minister of Finance)
Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers (European Institute, LSE)
'Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Norwegian Perspective'

Friday 17 October 2008, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture
Robert Cooper (Director-General for External and Political-Military Affairs at the Council of the European Union)
Chair: Maurice Fraser (European Institute, LSE)
'Are We Going Back to Power Politics? Can Europe Cope?'

Tuesday 21 October 2008, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 6:30 - 8:00pm
LSE European Institute - LSE Migration Studies Debate in association with the European Commission and FT Business
Jonathan Faull (Director-General Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission)
Christophe Prince (Director of International Policy, UK Border Agency)
Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann
'The EU and Migration: whom to admit and whom to exclude?'

Thursday 20 November 2008, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture with the LSE SU Finnish Society
A Lecture by Alexander Stubb (Foreign Minister of Finland, Current Chairman of the OSCE)

Friday 21 November 2008, Venue TBC, 6:30 - 8:00pm
FT Business - LSE European Institute the Future of Europe Public Lecture in association with the LSE SU Albanian Society
Dr Fatmir Sejdiu (President of Kosovo)
Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
'The Independent Kosovo: Partner for Peace and Stability in the Region'

Thursday 27 November 2008, Hong Kong Theatre, 6:30 - 8:00pm
LSE European Institute Debate in association with the European Commission and FT Business
Professor Iain Begg (European Institute, LSE)
Dalia Grybauskaite (European Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget)
Roland Rudd (Chairman, Business for a New Europe)
Chair: Maurice Fraser
'What's Wrong with the EU Budget?'