MBA Lecture: Britain’s relationship with the EU

Britain’s relationship with the European Union: a historical perspective of Andrew Dalgleish – British Ambassador in Croatia on December 13th 2016 in Forum Zagreb

The UK’s relationship with the European Union has always been interesting and complex. Last June’s referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU didn’t come out of the blue – it was the product of a range of long-term discussions about how the UK and the EU function together. Understanding the history, the constitutional challenges (what does Parliamentary Sovereignty really mean to the Brits?) and the dynamics of some of the key bilateral relationships with other EU members, can provide useful context to the debate that takes us a little further in understanding the context of the referendum than the newspaper headlines do.

Lecture organized by MBA Croatia willl be held by Andrew Dalgleish, who will attempt to uncover some of the historical reasons that inform the way Brits look at their own institutions of power and therefore inform the views they might have about supra-national institutions of power (like the European Commission or the European Parliament). It will look at the story behind Britain’s accession to the EU (40 years ago), the constitutional and political debates that were stimulated as the nature of EU membership evolved compared to the ‘Common Market’ that the UK had joined in the 1970s. And the combination of pressures that led to the commitment to a referendum on membership, the outcome of which we all know.

The lecture will be held on 13 December 2016 in the premises of the Congress Centre Forum Zagreb starting at 18:00 o’clock. For more information about the MBA Croatia association and the lecture read on the website www.mba-croatia.com.