It's all go on the Scandinavian front. There are two more items for your attention.
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1. EU CONSTITUTION. Having got its fingers burnt so painfully in 2003 on the euro, the Swedish government is determined to resist the rumbling pressure (eg, www.folkomrostning.nu) for a referendum on the constitution. The Danish government has much less room for manoevre in that respect.
For a concise and interesting report on the Danish situation, you could do a lot worse than read "A Perilous Democratic Exercise: The Referendum on the Constitutional Treaty in Denmark", by Catharina Sørensen and Anne Mette Vestergaard. It's a contribution to the Constitutional Ratification Monitor that's run by the European Policy Institutes Network, and the paper can found on the institute's homepage (www.epin.org).
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2. Then there's a very interesting-looking seminar next week.
THE EURO-OUTSIDERS AND THE POLITICS OF ASYMMETRY: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
EWC WORKSHOP (in association with the Journal of European Integration)
Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Centre, 12 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool
Thursday 21 April 2004
The workshop organised by the Europe and the World Centre (EWC) at The University of Liverpool and held in association with the Journal of European Integration represents the final part of a major research project that seeks to examine the common challenges and responses to those EU member states that are presently not members of the euro-area. The workshop provides an opportunity for information dissemination and for contributors to the project to present their key findings and conclusions to interested parties drawn from academia, public authorities and regional bodies and practitioners. The findings of the project have also been published in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration (March 2005).
1 – 2.30 pm Open Session 1: Introduction, Finnish and British EMU Studies
1 – 1.30 pm ‘Introduction: Euro-Outsiders and the Politics of Asymmetry’, Lee Miles (University of Liverpool and Karlstad University)
1.30 – 2.pm ‘Finland: Any Lessons for the Euro-Outsiders?’, Teija Tiilikainen (University of Helsinki)
2.- 2.30 pm ‘The United Kingdom: A Cautious Euro-Outsider’, Lee Miles (University of Liverpool and Karlstad University) and Gabriel Doherty (University of Hull)
2. 30 – 2.45 pm Coffee
2.45 - 3.45 Open Session 2; The Nordic Euro-Outsiders
2.45 – 3.15 ‘Denmark and European Monetary Integration: Out But Far From Over’, Martin Marcussen (University of Copenhagen)
3.15 – 3.45 ‘Sweden: The Twin Faces of a Euro-Outsider’, Rutger Lindahl (Göteborg University) and Daniel Naurin (Göteborg University)
3.45 – 4 pm Coffee
4 – 5 pm Open Session 3: Central and Eastern European Euro-Outsiders
‘The New Outsiders of Central and Eastern Europe – with Specific Reference to Poland’, Debra Johnson (University of Hull)
‘The Euro-Outsiders: Conclusions’, David Howarth (University of Edinburgh)
Funded by the European Commission as part of the The University of Liverpool’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Contact Lee Miles (L.S.Miles@liverpool.ac.uk) for further information.
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Best,
Nick Aylott.
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