Date: Thursday 12 March 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Kenneth Clarke MP, Dr Swati Dhingra, Michael Emerson
Chair: Professor Maurice Fraser

A timely debate to mark the launch of a new edited volume, Britain's Future in Europe edited by Michael Emerson. The book offers a comprehensive review of the evidence on the workings of the European Union, the source of which is the British Government’s own impressive research project Review of the Balance of Competences between the United Kingdom and the European Union. While the Government declined to draw conclusions from its own researches, the authors have taken up the open invitation for others to do so.

Kenneth Clarke has been the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe since 1970. He held several Ministerial offices in the Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - as Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for Education and Science, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. During a period in opposition he combined his duties as an MP with a variety of business appointments and chaired the Conservative’s Democracy Task Force and as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. On the Conservative’s return to Government in 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. In 2014 he became Minister without Portfolio, working to develop key trade relationships on the Prime Minister’s behalf. He had an advisory brief on the economy and also sat on the National Security Council. He returned to the back benches in July 2014.

Swati Dhingra is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at LSE.

Michael Emerson is Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, since 1998. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he first worked as an economist at OECD, Paris (1966-1973). He moved to the European Commission in 1973, with positions including economic adviser to the President (Roy Jenkins), and EU ambassador to Moscow (1991-1996). He then joined the London School of Economics as Senior Research Fellow (1996-1998). Emerson has published extensively on European policy issues.

Maurice Fraser is Head of the European Institute, LSE.

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) was established in 1991 as a dedicated centre for the interdisciplinary study of processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Assessment Exercise, the Institute was ranked first for research in European Studies in the United Kingdom. The LSE European Institute has been a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2009.

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