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Lecture October 18th 2011
At 12.00h in M102 Sólborg v/Norðurslóð One of the important objectives of the Lisbon Treaty was to improve the European Union's manoeuvrability on the international stage - in particular by setting up the European External Action Service headed by Baroness Ashton - and much attention has therefore been given to the institutional arrangements which were initiated by the Lisbon Treaty. The Lisbon Treaty however, also affects the substance of the Union's "foreign policy". This is not least clear in the objectives laid down in field and the enhanced duty to produce coherent policies. Until now these substantive issues have attracted much less attention than have the institutional ones. The lecture will therefore cast light on these issues and will show how the changes in the international power balance are making it difficult for the European Union to live up to its Treaty obligations.
Morten Broberg is professor in international development law at the University of Copenhagen where his primary research focus is upon the relations between the European Union and the developing countries. He has previously been an associate professor in EU law in the same university, has worked as a head of section in the Danish Ministry of Justice, as an associate in a Danish law firm and as a référendaire (legal secretary) to the then President of the General Court of the European Union.
At 12.00h in M102 Sólborg v/Norðurslóð One of the important objectives of the Lisbon Treaty was to improve the European Union's manoeuvrability on the international stage - in particular by setting up the European External Action Service headed by Baroness Ashton - and much attention has therefore been given to the institutional arrangements which were initiated by the Lisbon Treaty. The Lisbon Treaty however, also affects the substance of the Union's "foreign policy". This is not least clear in the objectives laid down in field and the enhanced duty to produce coherent policies. Until now these substantive issues have attracted much less attention than have the institutional ones. The lecture will therefore cast light on these issues and will show how the changes in the international power balance are making it difficult for the European Union to live up to its Treaty obligations.
Morten Broberg is professor in international development law at the University of Copenhagen where his primary research focus is upon the relations between the European Union and the developing countries. He has previously been an associate professor in EU law in the same university, has worked as a head of section in the Danish Ministry of Justice, as an associate in a Danish law firm and as a référendaire (legal secretary) to the then President of the General Court of the European Union.
