La Faculté de Droit, d'Economie et de Finance de l'Université du Luxembourg invite Marc Maresceau, professeur de droit européen à l'Université de Gand, à tenir une conférence sur les relations entre l'UE et la Turquie le 8 juin 2015 à 18h30.

One of the oldest bilateral agreements concluded by the European Community (now European Union) and still in force today is the 1963 Association Agreement with Turkey. This agreement, which has a clear pre-accession dimension, has had considerable political and legal effects : a customs union has been established and Turkish nationals, falling within the scope of the Agreement, have received a privileged status compared to other non-EU nationals. In 1999, the Helsinki European Council qualified Turkey as "a candidate State destined to join the Union", but after the opening of accession negotiations in 2005, very little progress has been made on the road to EU accession. For this state of affairs, a variety of explanations can be provided which will be examined in the lecture.

Marc Maresceau teaches EU law at the University of Ghent and is visiting professor at the College of Europe at Bruges and Natolin. His specialisation is EU external relations with a strong emphasis on the EU neighbourhood relations. His recent publications include, besides various aspects of EU-Turkey relations, studies on bilateral agreements in the recent case-law of the Court of Justice, "integration agreements", the relations EU-Switzerland, EU-micro-States, EU enlargement.

The conference of Pr.Marc Maresceau is part of the Lecture Series on the theme The European Union as a Global International Actor, supported by the FNR (RESCOM Scientific Events). The objective of the Lecture Series is to involve a wide-ranging audience in interactive lectures delivered by renowned scholars in legal or political economy disciplines. The lectures cover various aspects of the external action of the European Union and aim at critically assessing its role in tackling challenges in a context of global governance.6 conferences are to be held from March to July 2015 covering highly topical subjects and liable to offer an expert account of the theoretical and practical issues of the study of the European Union as an international actor. 15 conferences have been organised from March to December 2014

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