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24/05/13 - European Council Conclusions pdf

In the current economic context we must mobilise all our policies in support of competitiveness, jobs and growth. The supply of affordable and sustainable energy to our economies is crucial in that respect. This is why the European Council agreed today on a series of guidelines in four fields which together should allow the EU to foster its competitiveness and respond to the challenge of high prices and cost: urgent completion of a fully functioning and interconnected internal energy market, facilitation of the required investment in energy, diversification of Europe's supplies and enhanced energy efficiency.

24/05/13 - Eating Green. Lifestyle Choices and Political Identity in the French and British Green Parties

Professor Florence Faucher - Sciences Po, France.  Tuesday 4 June 2013 5.00pm – 6.00pm, at the ANU Centre for European Studies

22/05/13 - Professor Barry Eichengreen ‘The Euro crisis: The long view’

The euro crisis never seems to end. One reason why Europe is chronically unable to draw a line under its crisis is a failure to understand how it got into that crisis in the first place. In this lecture Professor Eichengreen takes a long view of events, starting with the birth of the European Union and advent of the euro and concluding with recommendations for resolving the crisis.