'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?': CELS Seminar

Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Speakers: João Vale de Almeida, Former Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom (2020-2022) and Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: The UK and EU relationship has not been straight forward since Brexit but since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister a certain amount of pragmatism has prevailed. Meanwhile, the European Union is facing significant geo-political challenges – not least the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Does it have capacity to think about these broader issues? The Ukraine conflict has led to much deeper thinking about enlargement of the EU, not just for Ukraine but also the Baltic states. The question of Europe of concentric circles has been raised again. What might a Europe of concentric circles mean for the accession and neighbourhood countries? What else can be done to improver relations with our closest trading partner? For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes.

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0:00.0	It's my great pleasure to welcome you all to this evening seminar with two very
0:14.0	distinguished speakers.
0:17.0	I should highlight to the audience in the room that their microphones above your head, so
0:23.6	every thing you say will be picked up and transmitted to the rest of the world.
0:32.6	I should also highlight for the audience online that, of course, it's a webinar so you can ask
0:40.2	questions via the Q&A. And of course, here in the room, we can ask questions in the room.
0:49.5	But without further ado, I'd like to introduce our two very distinguished speakers.
0:59.0	Our guests to the faculty is His Excellency, Jal Walade Amadeh, who was the EU ambassador to the United Kingdom between
1:19.6	2020 and 2022. Before that, he had a very distinguished 40-year career in the European institutions.
1:30.3	For example, between 2015 and 2019, he was ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations.
1:41.3	Jiao will talk to us about the EU-UK relationship in this evening seminar.
1:54.0	And here to my right, we have Professor Eleanor Sharptonston, who is a long-time friend of the Faculty of Law.
2:06.6	Indeed, she joined the Faculty of Law in 1992 and worked here until her appointment to the Court of Justice of the European Union as advocate general of the court.
2:30.3	And she has now returned just for this academic year
2:35.0	as a good thought professor in the Faculty of Law.
2:40.0	She also, at some point, she was the most senior female judge
2:48.0	of the United Kingdom in the international institutions and will have a lot to say to us about the UK-EU
3:02.2	relationship in the process.
3:05.8	So we are structuring this as a conversation and that will be followed by a Q&A.
3:15.3	And we're going to have sort of three points of departure. So first, I'd like to hear our speakers on their view backwards.
3:32.0	The maybe a reflection on the history, how did we get to the status quo that we have today?
3:41.6	Then in a second round, we're going to look at the status quo,
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