Using the past twenty years of European integration as its backdrop, this paper by Prof. Suzanne Kingston (EUCE York Visiting Scholar/School of Law, University College Dublin) will ask whether, with many of the low-hanging fruit in the integration process already picked, there are inherent limits to the integration process. This paper offers critical discussion of this question with specific reference to some key frontiers of European integration following the failure of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty (2004) and the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (2009). Particular attention will be paid to the fields of (a) foreign policy and external affairs; (b) the “social market economy”; and (c) “values” and fundamental rights.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 15th from 12:30-2:00 pm in Room 519 York Research Tower (building #95 on the map found here).
