United Kingdom/European Union: Towards an Amicable Divorce?
Practical information
These luncheon-debates are dedicated to corporate and individual benefactor members. By personal invitation only.
A luncheon-debate with Vivien PERTUSOT, Head of fri Bruxelles.
It is now certain: after David Cameron's victory, there will be a referendum in the UK before 2017 about the maintaining of the country within the European Union. According to these modalities, an exit of the United Kingdom would have major consequences for its economy, and particularly its financial sector. The coming British debate is also a European debate. Indirectly, it is the contour, the functioning and the project of the Union that are at stake.
Chair: Thomas Gomart, Director, Ifri
This event is organized thanks to the support of
Speakers
Find out more
"Brexit" : le débat britannique est absolument un débat européen
Il est désormais certain que le Royaume-Uni votera sur son maintien dans l'Union européenne. La réélection de David Cameron le confirme. En attendant le détail des réformes et demandes du Premier ministre britannique, les Etats-membres, à commencer par la France, doivent prendre conscience que le débat britannique n'est plus un débat strictement national. En filigrane se pose la question de l'avenir de l'Union européenne.
Other events
Strategic Autonomy and Asia amid Rising Geoeconomic Competition
Amid growing strategic and geopolitical uncertainty, Europe is grappling with the notion of its strategic autonomy. For Europe’s partners in Asia, the concept is also becoming increasingly salient as the world enters an era of structural transformation.
France-Germany, The Engine Under Pressure
Faced with a profoundly disrupted strategic and economic environment, Franco-German cooperation is more than ever the central pillar of Europe's future. The war in Ukraine, energy and technological dependence, and uncertainty about the strength of the transatlantic ties require urgent deepening of European sovereignty, both in terms of defence and economic and industrial competitiveness.
The New Nuclear Instabilities on the Korean Peninsula
From the growing size and diversification of the North Korean nuclear arsenal, and an open rhetoric in favor of nuclear proliferation in the South because of the loss of credibility of U.S. extended deterrence, the Peninsula is facing raising nuclear tensions.