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The Oxford German Forum 2016 aims to:
- Unite leading experts from Britain, Germany and the European Union in order to explore the different strategies, attitudes, and risks associated with Brexit. What are the challenges, and how can we deal with them to ensure Europe's as well as the UK’s competitiveness and prosperity in the 21st century?
- Provide a comprehensive overview on the current state of defence and security policy, trade developments and negotiations, as well as migration policy.
- Engage students from one of Europe’s most prestigious universities, the University of Oxford, in these debates and provide them with the platform for discussion with active policy-makers and academics.
Thursday 17 November 2016
16.00: Registration
16.30: Opening remarks
Panel I: Quo Vadis: European and Transatlantic Security? A New Deal for European Defence and Security Cooperation
Discussion focuses on:
- Consequences of the British decision to leave the European Union for the European Defence and Security Cooperation
- Consequences of the American presidential election for EU-NATO relations
- Role of the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the United States in the future of NATO and European security and defence cooperation
- Future of a European army and defence union
- Dr. Norbert Röttgen, MdB
- Dr. Anthony Glees, University of Buckingham
- Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, Atlantic Council.
- Dr. Günter Krings, MdB, Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Chair: Prof. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, St. Antony’s College
Friday 18 November 2016
09:00: Registration
09:15 Panel II: Quo Vadis: Regional Trade? TTIP, the UK, and the European Economic Area
Discussion focuses on:
- Consequences of the British referendum and the American presidential election for the prospects of free trade, in particular TTIP
- Exploring potential options for role of the UK outside of the Single Market
- Brexit implications on London’s role as the finance capital of the United Kingdom
- Future role of the EU as a regional common market in a globalized world economy
- Graham Bishop, grahambishop.com
- Freya Lemcke, DIHK
- Chair: Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard, University of Oxford
10:45: Coffee Break
11:00: Panel III: Quo Vadis: Migration? European Responses to the Refugee Crisis
Discussion focuses on:
- Reasons for different German and British reactions to the refugee crisis
- Efficient European border protection without becoming the fortress Europe
- Europe, the UK, and Germany and the spread of rising right-wing populism?
- Lessons learned from the Syrian civil war
- HE Dr. Peter Ammon, German Ambassador
- Dr. Mathias Czaika, University of Oxford
- Dr. Ruben Andersson, University of Oxford
- Prof. Dr. Tobias Schumacher, College of Europe (TBC)
- Chair: Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard, University of Oxford
12:45: Sandwich Lunch
Register via Email (also for individual panels): oxfordgermanforum@gmail.com
