Les unités de recherche IPSE et Gouvernance européenne de l'Université du Luxembourg organisent en collaboration avec le CVCE une table ronde publique consacrée au lancement des négociations en vue d'un accord de libre échange entre les Etats-Unis et l'UE

Thursday 27 June 2013,  18h00 to 20h00

Talks to thrash out the largest free trade agreement in history have been officially launched at the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland this week.  A first round of face-to-face negotiations between the United States and the European Union on the most lucrative bilateral trade deal in history will begin in the second week of July, but what might a US-European Union deal achieve?

With trade in each other's economies supporting around ten million jobs on each side of the Atlantic, a successful deal would add up to 120 billion euros to the EU economy but why has it taken so long to start the negotiations given widespread official support for free trade and what are the stumbling blocks to success?

David Howarth, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg, has brought together some of the world's leading academics and practitioners on EU-US trade relations for this high level round table.

Professor Michelle Egan, from the American University in Washington DC, is the president of the world's largest association for EU studies and has written numerous articles and books on European and American market integration. She is joined by Geraldine Emberger who works in the US trade unit of D-G Trade, European Commission and Joseph Burke who is responsible for trade policy at the US mission to the European Commission. 

Chair : Professor David Howarth, European Governance, IPSE, University of Luxembourg

Presenters :

• Geraldine Emberger, USA Trade Section, Directorate-General Trade, European Commission (speaking in an independent capacity).
• Joseph Burke, Trade Officer, Economics Policy Unit, United States Mission to the European Union.
• Michelle Egan, Professor of Political Economy, American University, Washington, DC ; President of the European Union Studies Associations of the United States ; leading expert on European and American market integration.

A reception will follow from 20h00 to 22h00

RSVP by 26 June 2013 at decanat-FLSHASE@uni.lu (specifying name, title and institution).

For further information please contact Professor David Howarth, david.howarth@uni.lu

Please note : Chatham House rules apply. Presentations will be off-the-record.