ERA Anniversary

Set up at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the German regional state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Academy of European Law (ERA) celebrates its fifteenth anniversary in 2007. This will be marked by a congress on 'The Future of Legal Europe'. The event will open with a round table debate featuring high-level speakers on the subject of '50 years of European legal and political integration'. The institutional, social, judicial and regulatory aspects of the future of a Europe of law will then be addressed through working groups including the following:

A summary of the deliberations of the working groups will be presented by rapporteurs on the final day. National and European parliamentarians will close the congress with a debate on the subject of 'What direction for Europe? The finality of the Union'. For further information see September [2007] International Family Law, Issue 3 and http://www.era.int/web/en/html/nodes_main/4_2127_474/conferences_0000_Date/5_1796_3894.htm