Committee continues future UK/EU Relationship inquiry, taking evidence from four former international senior officials and politicians
From 4pm on Tuesday 8 November, the European Affairs Committee will hear evidence from two panels of former senior officials and politicians from EU Member States and non-EU members:
At 4pm:
- Dr Peter Ammon, former German Ambassador
- Sylvie Bermann, former French Ambassador
At 5pm:
- Professor Michael Ignatieff, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former President and Rector of the Central European University
- Micheline Calmy-Rey, former President and head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of
Background
The aim of the future UK/EU Relationship inquiry is to examine the overarching state of the post-Brexit UK-EU relationship and how it might be improved in the future. The inquiry is investigating:
- The overall UK-EU political, diplomatic and institutional relationship;
- The UK-EU relationship on foreign policy and security;
- The UK-EU relationship on environment and climate change matters;
- The UK-EU relationship on culture, education and mobility of people
This fifth evidence session will focus primarily on the first two of the four themes covered by the inquiry.
Meeting details
At 5:00pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
The future UK-EU relationship
At 6:00pm: Private discussion
Inquiry
The future UK-EU relationship
Possible topics for the first panel include:
- The current state of the UK’s bilateral relationships with France and Germany
- The value of engagement between the UK, France and Germany in the E3 format and how/whether this might be developed
- The European Political Community
- Arrangements for foreign policy and security cooperation between the UK and the EU, and whether a structured framework would be of value
- Cooperation between the UK and the EU in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how this might be built upon.
- The developing NATO-EU relationship, and how the UK relates to these developments
Possible topics for the second panel include:
- The lessons the UK can learn from the Swiss and Canadian experiences of working with the EU.
- The extent to which, and in what ways, Switzerland and Canada engage with the EU on foreign and security policy issues.
- The implications of the UK’s exclusion from the Horizon Europe research programme for science and research cooperation.
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