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Chatham House Commission on Europe after Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain

A Chatham House Commission on Europe after Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain has released a report - A British Agenda for Europe: Designing Our Own Future - based on a series of meetings and workshops held in 2007-08. The Commission is chaired by Sir Stephen Wall, former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and Head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. Other members of the Commission bring political and area expertise across a range of relevant policy areas, and also include a number of senior experts from continental European countries (see full list below).

The Commission has explored several areas where long-term British national interests would be best served by more proactive British policies within the EU. The report will argue that determined British initiatives in these areas will be all the more important in the wake of the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

The publication of the report was followed by public presentations of the policy recommendations in London and Brussels and high-level private meetings in Downing Street, the Foreign Office and with the Conservative Party, as well as with the European Commission, UK Permanent Representation and members of the Council Secretariat.

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Commission Members

  • Professor Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics
  • Dr Christoph Bertram, former Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
  • Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice-Chairman UBS Investment Bank, former Cabinet Minister and Vice-President, European Commission
  • Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform, UK
  • Professor Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford and Fellow, New College, University of Oxford
  • Professor Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath
  • William Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer
  • Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, formerly Leader of the City of London and Clifford Chance
  • Professor Anand Menon, Professor of West European Politics, University of Birmingham
  • Rt Hon Baroness Quin, House of Lords, former Minister for Europe and former MEP
  • Professor Pauline Schnapper, Professeur de Civilisation Britannique, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Paris III
  • Mr Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy, Warsaw and former director of the Department of the European Union in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Professor Helen Wallace, Centennial Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics
  • Sir Stephen Wall, Vice Chair, Business for New Europe; former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and Head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office

For further information please contact Nina Assauer.