NGIZ | Instituut Clingendael | AIV | The European Union after Brexit

Who will become the new allies of the Netherlands?

This is a public debate, organised by the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV), the Netherlands Society for International Affairs (NGIZ), and the Clingendael Institute. For registration click here.

Topic of this debate is ‘The European Union after Brexit. Who will become the new allies of the Netherlands?’, following the publication of a recent report (in Dutch) by the AIV on ‘Coalition-building after Brexit. Alliances for a European Union that modernises and protects’. The report was commissioned by the Dutch House of Representatives to inform the discussion on how the Netherlands should adapt to a post-Brexit EU.

The key recommendations of the advice can be found in this recent opinion-piece by Monika Sie Dhian Ho and Luuk van Middelaar, and in Clingendael Spectator: “Trilogy: shifting EU coalitions post-Brexit“.

Programme

13:30
Welcome and registration

14:00
Opening and welcome by Tom de Bruijn, vice-chair Supervisory Board of the Clingendael Institute

14:10
Presentation AIV-report by Luuk van Middelaar, member of the AIV, professor European Law-Leiden University, and columnist NRC Handelsblad

14:20
Expert Panel with Monika Sie Dhian Ho (general director of the Clingendael Institute and member of the AIV), Stéphane Alonso (journalist NRC Handelsblad), Hanno  Würzner (deputy director European Integration, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign  Affairs) and Hanco Jürgens (researcher, Institute for German Studies/University of Amsterdam).

15:20
Break with coffee/tea

15:35

16:35
Keynote speech by Thijs van der Plas, Director-General European Cooperation (DGES), Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

16:50
Closure & drinks in the Pleinbar

As space is limited, registration is at a first come, first serve basis.

This event can be registered by audio and/of video.