The future of Europe: variable geometry – how can unity be preserved in an increasingly diversified world? (WP1215)

The conference focused on the implications of closer Eurozone integration for key policy areas:

• The single market, especially financial services, fiscal and bank regulation
• Foreign policy
• Global competitiveness
• Institutional development, democratic legitimacy and accountability

It addressed the impact on external views of the EU (the G-2-, BRICS, investors) and look at how the EU can exert more influence in the changing global economic order.