Difficult Choices between Integration and Expansion
The resounding defeat of the European Constitutional Treaty in referenda in France and the Netherlands, serious disagreements about the shape and direction of the next EU budget cycle, and mounting apprehension about continuing the EU's expansion to include Turkey have cast doubts on the future viability of the European project. Are the historic economic and political accomplishments of European integration threatened by the burdens of massive expansion, the divergence of foreign policies, the immigration of cheap labor, and the growing dilemmas of the welfare state?
Picking up on the theme of the first European Roundtable in the fall of 2004, an expert team of scholars from Stanford and beyond will address these and other issues in the light of recent developments and on the basis of a sober assessment of both the problems and promises that lie ahead on the road to further European integration.
Hans N. Weiler (moderator)
Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science, Stanford
Marina Bourgain
PhD candidate at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and Research Associate at Stanford Law School
Christophe Crombez
Associate Professor of Political Economy and Strategy at the University of Leuven in Belgium; Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford's Institute for International Studiesand the Stanford Business School.
Meredith Heiser
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Stanford; Professor of Political Science, Foothill College
Timothy Josling
Professor Emeritus at the (former) Food Research Institute at Stanford; Senior Fellow by Courtesy at Stanford's Institute for International Studies, and a European Forum faculty member at Stanford.