Good afternoon, everybody.

Welcome to the first cells lunchtime seminar of the academic year.

As some of you know already, we have these seminars every Wednesday lunchtime through the Bicklemas term and the Lent term.

And I'm pleased to see so many of you here today. It's my great pleasure to welcome

as the first speaker of our 2011-2012 series, Professor Sinden, a Dutch colleague who was until

recently at the University of Tilburg but is recently at the University of Tilburg, but is now at the University

of Uteret. The University of Uteract is one of the universities with which Cambridge law faculty

has friendly links in the form of the Erasmus program.

First Ascended has made a reputation for herself writing about, in particular,

matters of soft law, which is a topic she discovered or anybody else had even heard of it,

I believe.

I'm not sure whether your talk today has anything to do with soft law.

Slightly in the end, I think we will touch somewhere on software.

But I won't take up any more of the time and over to you, Mrs. Sederateau.

Thank you very much.

And thank you, I thank the Centre for European Policy Studies in the first place for inviting

me to come and speak to you today.

I deliberately actually decided to talk on a different subject than the one I think indeed I might be most known for.

I will be talking about the positioning of the citizen in EU law,

how coherent is the union's approach?

And I chose that topic because it's linked very much to the research program,

Utrecht University, the Faculty of Law just started this year. And since I

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