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FulfillingtheVision:EuropeanUnionFutures?

AjointEUCentres’conference16–18October2017

RMITCityCampus,Melbourne,Australia

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Welcome to the joint EU Centres’ conference held from 16 to 18 October 2017 in Melbourne,

Australia!Inthisbooklet,youwillfindinformationonaccommodation,transport,etcaswellasthe

conferenceprogramme.Wehopeyouarrivesafelyandenjoyyourstay.

Sponsors&Organisers

ANUCentreforEuropeanStudies

EUCentreatRMIT

EuropeanUnionCentresNetwork(EUCN),NewZealand

NationalCentreforResearchonEurope(NCRE),NewZealand

EuropeanCommission

HawkeEUCentre,UniversityofSouthAustralia

TheUniversityofAdelaide

EuropeanUnionCentreonSharedComplexChallenges,UniversityofMelbourne

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TableofContents

ConferenceProgramme.........................................................................................................................6

YourPresentation&ConferenceProcedures..................................................................................16

PresentationAbstractsinAlphabeticalOrder......................................................................................17

A–C.................................................................................................................................................17

D-G...................................................................................................................................................23

H-J.....................................................................................................................................................31

K-L.....................................................................................................................................................35

M-O..................................................................................................................................................40

P-T....................................................................................................................................................48

U-Z....................................................................................................................................................60

Co-Presentedand–AuthoredPapers..............................................................................................65

PlenaryPanel1–TheEuropeanUnioninaMultipolarWorld.........................................................68

PlenaryPanel2-RegionalInitiativestoPromoteEconomicandSocialCohesion...........................70

PlenaryPanel3-HarnessingGlobalisationtobuildabetterworldforthebenefitofall................72

PlenaryPanel4–PerspectivesfromEuropeanAmbassadors.........................................................74

PlenaryPanel5–Business&Policy.................................................................................................75

PlenaryPanel6-StudyingtheEuropeanUnion:GlobalPerspectives.............................................76

GeneralInformation.............................................................................................................................77

HotelInformation.............................................................................................................................80

ConferenceVenue............................................................................................................................81

ConferenceDinner...........................................................................................................................82

PracticalInformation........................................................................................................................83

AboutMelbourne.............................................................................................................................84

Gettingaround.................................................................................................................................84

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ConferenceProgramme

Monday,16October2017:MelbourneRMITUniversityCityCampusSwanstonAcademicBuilding(SAB)80,Level7445SwanstonStreet,MelbourneVIC3000

8:00–9:00 RegistrationVenue:Foyer,RMITSABBuilding80,level7,445SwanstonStreet

9:00–9:45

WelcometoConferenceVenue:LectureTheatre80.07.01U(Upperlevel)SABBuilding80,Level7445SwanstonStreetChair:BruceWilson

WelcometothecountryWelcometoRMITProfessorCalumDrummond,DeputyViceChancellor(ResearchandInnovation)IntroductoryAddressHisExcellencyMichaelPulchAmbassadorandHeadofDelegationoftheEuropeanUniontoAustralia

9:45–11:00Venue:SAB80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel1Chair:JacquelineLo

TheEuropeanUnioninaMultipolarWorldProfessorHeribertDieter,GermanInstituteforInternationalandSecurityAffairsProfessorYeoLayHwee,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,SingaporeProfessorNataliaChaban,UniversityofCanterbury

11:00–11:15 MorningTeaVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7.

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11:15–12:30SESSION1

Session1ARoom:80.07.06

Barrierstotradeinservices–newmeasuresandimplicationsfortheSingleMarketChair:KymAnderson

HazelMoir UsingtheOECD’sServicesTradeRestrictivenessdatabaseAnneMcNaughton Tradeinlegalservices:anexplorationofthevalueoftheOECD’sSTRIAnnemarieElijah Australia-EUservicestrade:wherearethebarriers?

JaneDrake-BrockmanRegionalIntegrationinServices:UsingtheSTRItomeasureprogresswiththeServicesDirectiveandtheEUDigitalSinglemarket

Session1BRoom:80.07.07

EUPolicy-MakingChair:SerenaKelly

BerengereGreenlandStrategicNarrativeAlignment:AnalysingtheprojectionofFrenchandEUnarrativesaboutGlobalEnergyGovernance

KrzysztofSliwinski EuropeanPoliticsandtheneo-liberalparadigmCesardePrado GrandStrategicThinkingintheEuropeanUnion

Session1CRoom:80.07.08

EUandJusticeChair:BinoyKampmark

PauloCanelasdeCastro

Incrementaljurisprudence–assessingtheEuropeanCourtofJustice’sdiscoursebylookingatafewseminaljudgments

NicolasdeSadeleerCentrifugalandcentripetalforcesatplayinrespecttotheCommon

CommercialPolicy

RussellSolomon Rightsatrisk?TheimpactofBrexitin(re)defininghumanrightsintheEU

Piao-HaoHsuRightToBeForgotteninTheEUAndAsia-IsRightToPrivacyAUniversalConcept?

12:30–13:15 LunchVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7.

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13:15–14:45SESSION2


EurozoneChair:JulianChaisse

BinoyKampmark Sovereignty,CurrencyandControl:TheFutureoftheEurozoneRemyDavison NoGrexit:HowendingfiscalsovereigntyresolvedtheGreekcrisis

JorgeUxoNofuturefortheEurozonewithoutfar-reachingchangesinitseconomicgovernance

JamesHeadleyandSofiaKalogeropoulou

ExpressingGreeknessinatimeofcrisis:kalozoia[‘goodlife’]versusausterity?


EUandBrexitChair:IvanaDamjanovic

AntoniaMochanLiftingtheLens:howAustralia'srelationshipwiththeEUwillbechangedbyBrexit

EdwardYencken Beyondbilateraldisputes?EU-AustraliarelationsintheageofBrexitAnneHarrer Pleasemindthegap:SocialCleavagesandBrexitintheUKandtheEUSerenaKelly Shiftingframes:External&InternalMediaFramingofBREXITinNZ


NationalExperiencesChair:KaLokChan

PetarKurecicFourYearsintheEU:AnAnalysisoftheEUMembershipImpactsontheCroatianEconomyandDevelopmentalPerspectives

AlexanderTardi-Zuch NationalisminHungary:Pastpresentandfuture

NataliaChabanCommunicatingtheEUbeyonditsborders:NewsmakingpracticesandEUnarrativesinUkrainepost-Maidan

14:45–15:00 AfternoonteaVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7.

15:00–16:15Venue:80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel2Chair:BruceWilson

RegionalInitiativestoPromoteEconomicandSocialCohesionAlessandroRainoldi,EuropeanCommissionJointResearchCentreProfessorCarolineSaunders,LincolnUniversityProfessorRobynEversole,SwinburneUniversity

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16:30–18:00Session3


RegionalEconomicandSocialCohesionChair:PeterMumford

BruceWilsonDevelopingRegionalInnovationSystemsinEuropeandAustralia:GovernanceandEngagement

SarahHoweThePoliticalEconomyofEuropeanUnionRegionalPolicyinstrengtheningtheEUpoliticalproject

ManojBabuBuraga BrexitandtheEUCohesionPolicyJeffMcNeill BrexitandtheEUagriculturalandenvironmentalpolicynexus


Mobilities,MigrationsandCulturalTransformationsChair:FionaBarker

AnthonyElliott DigitalBorderlands:AustraliaandtheEUattheedgeofhistory

SusanLuckmanCulturaltransformationandinnovationinEurope’sdigitaleconomy–Thecaseoftheculturalandcreativeindustries

DavidRadfordExternal‘threats’,internaldisruptions:TheChallengesofphysicalandrelational(im)mobilityinlightofforcedmigrationsandinterculturalcomplexitiesinEuropeandAustralia


EUandtheEasternNeighbourhoodChair:NataliaChaban

MurrayRaffReformofCivilLawandtheTransitionofSocialisminEasternEuropeandAsia

NinaMarkovicKhazeBalkancountriesatthecrossroadsbetweentheEU,RussiaandChina:isthereabeaconofhope?

RobertMezykandNinaMezyk

TheRuleofLawprocedure,innerpoliticsandsocialattitudes:DiscourseanalysisontheexampleofPoland

18:00 ReceptionVenue:Openarea,80.07

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Tuesday,17October2017

9:00–10:30Session4Session4ARoom:80.07.06

EUandtheGreatPowersChair:FabioSpadi

DanielSteedman TrumpandUS-EUrelations:atimeofstrategicuncertaintyDinojKumarUpadhyay India-EURelations:RegionalDynamicsandProspectiveOrientation

KaLokChanFallingbetweentwostools:"Decentring"EUforeignpolicyandimplicationsfor"humanrights"inChina


EUIntegrationChair:MartinHolland

BenWellings UnintendedConsequences:NationalismandEuropeanIntegrationNatthananKunnamas Europexit?:AStudyofPopulisminEuropeIvanaDamjanovicandOttavioQuirico

Inter-TreatyRelationsintheEU

GeorgeNikolaidis Arewereallyallinthistogether?TheUnion’sintegrationflawsreturnaftertheGFC


EmergingTradeIssuesChair:HazelMoir

PaulGretton MakingthemostoftradepolicythroughBrexit

AlanSwinbankBrexit,IrelandandtheWTO:PossiblePolicyOptionsforaFutureUK-AustraliaAgri-foodTradeAgreement

KymAnderson TheUK,EU27andGlobalWineMarketsby2025:ImplicationsofBrexit

10:30–10:45 MorningteaVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7

10:45–12:15Venue:80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel3Chair:JaneDrake-Brockman

HarnessingGlobalisation to build a betterworld for thebenefitofallProfessorKymAndersonAC,TheUniversityofAdelaide/AustralianNationalUniversityDrYoseRizalDamuri,CenterforStrategicandInternationalStudies,IndonesiaDrPeterMumford,NewZealandMinistryofBusiness,InnovationandEmploymentProfessorChristopherFindlay,TheUniversityofAdelaideMrIvanoCasella,EUDelegationtoAustralia

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12:15–13:00 LunchVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7

13:00-14:30Venue:80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel4Chair:AnnmarieElijah

PerspectivesfromEuropeanAmbassadorsHEMsUnniKløvstad,AmbassadorofNorwaytoAustraliaHEDrBernhardZimburg,AmbassadorofAustriatoAustralia

14:40–16:10Session5


TowardsanAustralia/EUFTAChair:IvanoCasella

JaneDrake-Brockman AustralianandEuropeanPerspectives:FindingCommonGroundinanFTARichardPomfret B2BEU/AustraliaGlobalValueChainRelationshipsShandreThangevalu DefiningtheEU/AustraliaInvestmentRelationshipJulienChaisse Investor-StateDisputeSettlement:ThinkingForward


EU,SecurityandDefenceChair:RussellSolomon

NeilBoisterRegionalapproachestocooperationinextraditionoftransnationalcriminals:TheEuropeanArrestWarrantasaGlobalModel

RichardBurchillRegionalresponsestoterrorism:TheGulfCooperationCouncil’sresponsetoterrorismcomparedtotheEU’sresponse

PetarKurecic WouldtheEuropeanDefenceUniondisbandNATOinEurope?Session5CRoom:80.07.06

EUandASEANCountriesChair:EviFitriani

TasmihaTarafderAccordandReady-madeGarmentsinBangladesh:ThenewphaseofParticipation

AinsleyMcLeanEuropeanUnionandInternationalCriminalCourt:ExaminingInternationalCooperationandJudicialAssistance,theCaseofSudanesePresident,OmarAl-Bashir

HangNguyenThiThuy EU-VietnamTradeRelationsandtheDrivingForcesbehindThem

16:10–16:30 AfternoonteaVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7

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16:30–17:45Venue:80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel5Chair:BrunoMascitelli

Australia-EUBusinessandPolicyLinksMelissaConleyTyler,AustralianInstituteofInternationalAffairsTimCarroll,Austrade

18:30–21:00 ConferenceDinnerTheToffinTown,TheBallroom,252SwanstonStreet,Melbourne

PleasemakeyourownwaytotheConferencedinner.

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Wednesday,18October2017

9:00–10:30SESSION6


EuropeanUnionintheWorldChair:SerenaKelly

GabrieleSuder RegionalisationinandwiththeEU:Acost-benefitanalysisfortheHigherEducationsector

BrunoMascitelli EuropeanStudies–WhatitisandwhatstateisitinAustralia?JohnHopkins DisastersKnowNoBorders:DisasterRiskManagementintheEU


EUIntegration(2)Chair:AnneHarrer

RitaParker AEuropeancrisisofdemocracyorjusttestingtheboundaries?PrashantSabharwal ConstitutionalMoment-HowtorefoundtheEuropeanUnion

DavitiMtchedlishviliLessAmbitiousStimulus:TrichotomousEuropeanisationProcessintheSouthCaucasus


CulturalProcessesChair:NatthananKunnamas

KasiaWilliams MemoryandpopulismacrossEasternEuropeanborders

FranziscaDoserANewGenerationofEuropeans:RefugeeintegrationthroughearlyeducationatGermanprimaryschools

DionysiosStivasRefugeeCrisisEffectsonthe‘FutureofEurope’:AnImpedimenttoEuropeanIntegration

10:30–10:45 MorningteaVenue:Openarea,RMITSABBuilding80,level7

10:45–11:45Venue:80.07.01U

PlenaryPanel6Chair:NataliaChabanStudyingTheEuropeanUnion:GlobalPerspectivesProfessorPauloCanelasDeCastro,UniversityofMacauDrEviFitriani,UniversityofIndonesiaAssocProfBrunoMascitelli,ContemporaryEuropeanStudiesAssociationofAustralia

11:45–12:00Venue:80.07.01U

ConclusionandWrapupProfessorJacquelineLo

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Wednesday,18October2017:AdelaideHawkeEUStudiesattheUniversityofSouthAustralia

13:00–13:30RegistrationVenue:BradleyForum,Level5,HawkeBuilding,CityWestCampus,UniversityofSouthAustralia

13:30–13:35

WelcometoConference

AcknowledgementofCountry&IntroductionProfessorAnthonyElliott,ExecutiveDirector,HawkeEUCentre,UniversityofSouthAustralia

13:35–13:45

OpeningAddress

H.E.DrMichaelPulch,AmbassadorandHeadofDelegationoftheEuropeanUniontoAustralia

13:45–14:45

Panel1Chair:SusanLuckman

EUintheWorldTodayMsMelissaConleyTyler,AustralianInstituteofInternationalAffairsProfessorRichardPomfret,UniversityofAdelaideMrLaurentPointud,AllianceFrançaise

14:45–15:15 Afternoontea

15:15–16:30

KeynoteLectureChair:AnthonyElliott

EUintheWorldTodayProfessorLoukasTsoukalis,ProfessorofEuropeanIntegration,UniversityofAthens,VisitingProfessor,HarvardUniversity

16:30–16:50 AudienceQ&A

16:50–17:05 ShortBreak

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17:05–18:05

Panel2Chair:ProfessorAnthonyElliott

TheFutureoftheEUH.E.MrsNinetaBarbulescu,AmbassadorofRomaniatoAustraliaProfessorRobertHolton,AdjunctProfessor,UniversityofSouthAustraliaProfessorLoukasTsoukalis,ProfessorofEuropeanIntegration,UniversityofAthens,VisitingProfessor,HarvardUniversityProfessorBruceWilson,DirectoroftheEuropeanUnionCentre,RMITUniversity

18:05–18:20ClosingAddressProfessorAnthonyElliott,ExecutiveDirector,HawkeEUCentre,UniversityofSouthAustralia

18:20–19:30 CocktailReception

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PresentationAbstractsinAlphabeticalOrder

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ANDERSON,KymUK,EU27andGlobalWineMarketsby2025:ImplicationsofBrexitFor centuries Britain has accounted for a major share of the world’s wine imports, and wineaccountsformorethanone-thirdofUKalcoholconsumption.ItisthereforenotsurprisingthatbothsuppliersofthoseimportsandUKwineconsumers,producers,traders,distributors,andretailersarefocusing onwhat theUK’s plannedwithdrawal from the EuropeanUnion (Brexit)mightmean forthem.Inthispaperwemodeltheworld’swinemarketsandprojectthosemarketsto2025without,andthenwith,BrexitundervariousscenariosandareplacementtradeagreementbetweentheUKandEU27.TheBrexitscenariosinvolveadjustmentnotjusttoUKandEU27bilateraltariffsbutalsotoassumedchangesby2025intheUK’sincomesandcurrency.Therelativeimportanceofeachofthosethreecomponentsoftheinitialshockarereported,asareimpactsofasubsequentUK-EU27trade agreement. The results suggest the net impact outside the UK will be relatively minorcomparedwithotherdevelopmentsintheworld’swinemarkets.InsidetheUK,however,theeffectofBrexitonincomesandthepoundarelikelytohavenon-trivialinitialimpactsonthedomesticwinemarket,andtobefarlargerthanthedirectimpactofchangesinbilateraltariffs.Kym Anderson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and at ANU’s CrawfordSchool of Public Policy.Heworked at theGATT (nowWTO) Secretariat during 1990-92 and at theWorldBankduring2004-07.Hehaspublishedaround400articlesand40books.HeChairstheBoardof Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is a recipient of an HonoraryDoctorofEconomicsdegreefromtheUniversityofAdelaideandaDistinguishedAlumniAwardfromtheUniversityofNewEngland.In2015,hebecameaCompanionoftheOrderofAustralia(AC).DrKymAnderson GlynWittwerUniversityofAdelaide&AustralianNationalUniversity [email protected] [email protected]

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BOISTER,NEILRegionalapproaches to cooperation inextraditionof transnational criminals: TheEuropeanArrestWarrantasaGlobalModelThe adoption of the European Arrest Warrant in the EU signalled a major step away from thetraditionalandmuchmorecumbersomeprocessofextraditionforthesurrenderoffugitivecriminalsbetweenMemberStates.Thispaperexploresthemuch-reducedconditionsfortheoperationoftheArrest Warrant, the contextual conditions for its operation such as adherence to human rightsprotections,andhowtheArrestWarranthasbeen receivedbyofficialsand thepublic inMemberStates,beforegoingontoexplorewhethertheEAWprocessprovidesaworkablemodelforaglobalarrestwarrant,orforregionalarrestwarrantsinotherregions.Professor Neil Boisterhas been interested in“transnational criminal law”, the suppression oftransnational crime through international law,since undertaking aPhD on the “The Suppression ofIllicitDrugsthroughInternationalLaw”attheUniversityofNottingham.Hehaspublishedwidelyinthis area, includingmost recentlyAn Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law(OUP, 2012) and(with Robert Currie, Dalhousie University) the Routledge Handbook of Transnational CriminalLaw(2014).In 2015, he was awarded the New Zealand Law Foundation International ResearchFellowshipandiscurrentlyworkingonaprojectonglobalsimplificationofextradition.ProfNeilBoisterUniversityofCanterburyNeil.boister@canterbury.ac.nzBURAGA,MANOJBABUBrexitandtheEUCohesionPolicyCohesion Policy is themost explicit andmost visible expression of solidaritywithin the EuropeanUnion.CohesionPolicy isadevelopmentpolicyaimingat improving theconditions for sustainablegrowthandjobs,well-beingandqualityoftheenvironmentintheEUregionsandatstrengtheningtheintegrationofregionaleconomies.IsanimportantEUpillaranditcannotbereplacedinfuturewith any individual state or an individual. In the context of cohesion policy, solidarity is notexpressedthroughcompensatorypayments,butthroughsupportfordevelopment.Inthissense,itcanbe seen as a help to self-help, and its success depends to a large extent on the capacity andpreparedness of those at whom the support is targeted to make the best possible use out of itincludingforthebuildingofgoodgovernanceandadministrativecapacity.EUwillgrowfasterinthecoming days despite Brexit turmoil in the region also Europe still faces an important number ofthreats.But thegrowingconfidencesamongthecitizens thatEU iswill remainalwaysasauniqueand indispensableactor in the regional levelandalsoatglobal level.EmmanuelMacronwinsasaFrench President was signs of relief in the Europe. The upcoming UK elections will decide thepositionofUKinthecomingdaysandtheeurozonewillreachexpectationsofyearlygrowthrate.

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ThepresentpaperisanattempttoanalyzethattherealproblemandreallyfacinganyproblemsbyEUaftertheBrexit.Andtrytofindanswertotheseresearchquestions.1.IsBrexitwillreallyharmEuropeanUnioncohesionpolicyornot?2.ThefutureoftheEUandIsEUwillgrowaftertheBrexitturmoilintheregion?CurrentlyampursuingmyDoctoralPrograminEuropeanStudies.FocusingonIndia-EUPartnership.PresentedandPublishedseveralpapersinIndiaandinInternationalJournals.MrManojBabuBuragaPondicherryUnivesity,[email protected],RICHARDRegional responses to terrorism: The need to improve coordination and cooperation within andbetweenregionalarrangementsIn the current global environment extensive cross border cooperation is necessary for combatingterrorismandextremism.Whilethispointhasbeenwellknown,actualprogressinthisregardhasbeen slow. Regional arrangements have a strong role in supporting global efforts to addressfinancing and support for terrorism and extremism. Regional arrangements should be able tocoordinateeffortsbetweentheirmemberstates,aswellascontributingtoglobaleffortsbyworkingtogetherinthesharingofinformationandbestpractices.Dr Richard Burchillis the Director of Research and Engagement for TRENDS. Previously hewas amemberof theWilberforce Institute for theStudyofSlaveryandEmancipationandReader in theLawSchoolattheUniversityofHull.WhileattheUniversityofHullhehasbeentheDirectoroftheMcCoubreyCentre for International Law, theDirector of Postgraduate Studies for the LawSchooland theDirector of International Partnerships for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He hasbeenanexpertspeakeron issuesof international law,humanrightsandcounter-terrorismfortheUNOfficeonDrugsandCrime,andtheGeorgeC.MarshallCentreforSecurityStudies.DrRichardBurchillTRENDSResearch&Advisory,[email protected]

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CANELASDECASTRO,PAULOIncrementaljurisprudence–assessingtheEuropeanCourtofJustice’sdiscoursebylookingatafewseminaljudgmentsTheEuropeanCourtofJusticeoperatesundertheprincipleofcollegiality.ThisresultsinasystematicsearchforconsensuswhichrendersthediscourseoftheECJlimitedtotheveryessential.Inordertopreserveconsensus,theECJmaynotappearaudaciousinexpoundingtherationaleofthesolutionsfound tonovel questions.On the contrary, the ECJ seeks instead tobepersuasiveby threading averyincrementaldiscourse,astep-by-step’argumentativeconstruction.Thismaybeillustratedbyarecentnumberofjudgementsincasescontainingquestionsofconstitutionalimportance,whichshallbe analyzed. Keywords: European Court of Justice; jurisprudence; case law; judicial discourse;consensus;constitutionalism.EuropeanUnionStudiesinMacau:lookingback,thinkingaheadMacaustandsintheAsia-PacificareaasoneofthejurisdictionswhichpioneeredtheintroductionofEUstudies.Morethan20yearsafterthisstart,itmayseemtimelytolookbackandtakestockofthepastinordertobetterunderstandthechallengesforthefuture.Thestudyshallseektoidentifythemain actors, policies followed and comparative features of these more than two decades ofsustainingEUstudiesinMacauandprospectivelyreflectonthedilemmasandoptionswhichseemto punctuate the near future of EU studies in a broader changing environment. Keywords: EUstudies;Macau;teaching;research;EU-fundedprograms.Associate Professor, University ofMacau. President, European Union Studies Association,Macau.FormerCounsel,internationalcourts,Stategovernments,InternationalOrganizationsProfPauloCanelasdeCastroUniversityofMacau,[email protected],NATALIACommunicatingtheEUbeyonditsborders:NewsmakingpracticesandEUnarrativesinUkrainepost-MaidanUkraine – a major theatre of contention – confronts regional and international security andchallengestheEU’snew leadershipandforeignpolicy focusontheexerciseofglobalandregionalpoliticalandeconomicstewardship.Inthislight,amutualunderstandingwithneighboursisvital.Itis critical that Europe diagnoses and understands EU perceptions, images and narratives in thisvolatile strategic neighbour and tracks expectations. Informed by the strategic narrative theory

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(Miskimmonetal.2013),thispapertracesnarrativesformulatedandprojectedbytheEUtowardsitsneighbourstotheEastthroughitsGlobalStrategy(2016)andoffsetsthemagainstthenarrativesabout the EU communicated in Ukraine bypassing the EU. In focus are Ukraine’s leading newsdiscourses, and newsmaking practices behind them. Special consideration is given to theeffectivenessofimplementationofpost-MaidanlegalframeworkswhichleadtotheprivatizationoftheUkrainianmediatoensureeditorial freedom. Thepaperexamineshowdomesticnewsmakingpracticesandidentitiesofopinion-makersinfluencewhatEUimagesandnarrativesarespreadandactivatedwithinUkraineandlinksitsfindingstoEUpublicdiplomacytowardsthisconflictedsociety.UkrainiansocietyischaracterisedbydifferentlevelsofawarenessoftheEUaswellasdifferingEUperceptionsdivergingfromregiontoregionandbetweengenerations.ThedatacomefromtheJeanMonnet Network ‘Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine andIsrael/Palestine’.Thepaperinnovativelylinksthestrategicnarrativetheoryofinternationalrelationsstudieswiththecascadingactivationframingtheory(Entman2003;2004)ofcommunicationstudies.While the former theorises thecommunicationphase in the lifeofa strategicnarrative, the latteraddstoourunderstandingofthemechanismsbehindtheflowsofinformationandtheroleoflocalnewswriters and media gatekeepers in shaping domestic communication flows on internationalrelationsandforeignpolicy.ProfessorNataliaChabanisaCo-HeadoftheDepartmentofGlobal,CulturalandLanguageStudiesheadingEuropeanandEUStudiesandEuropeanLanguages;DeputyDirectorandJeanMonnetChairattheNationalCentreforResearchonEurope(NCRE)attheUniversityofCanterbury,NewZealand.This paper is co-authoredwith Associate Professor Andrii Chuzhykov is of Kyiv National EconomicUniversity,UkraineandMrIversonNgisanMAstudentatTartuUniversity,Estonia.ProfessorNataliaChabanUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected],JULIENInvestor-StateDisputeSettlement:ThinkingForwardInvestor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) has been subject, over the recent years, to increasingcriticisms.Somearguethat theoriginof thesecriticisms is tobe found inthe fact thatdevelopingcountriesarenolongertheonlycountriesfacingpotentialclaimsfordamagesunderISDS.Recently,developedcountriespolicieshavebeenchallengedthroughISDS,leadingtotheawardofsignificantcompensations [Waterfallenv.Germany].Ata timeofbudgetaryconstraints,publicopinionshavevery negatively reacted to ISDS and, more generally, to investment treatiesor treaties includinginvestmentchapter,suchasTTIP.TheEUCommission,eitheraspartofadamage-controloperationinthecontextof theTTIPnegotiations,or inagenuineattempttohavestatesregaincontroloverISDS, proposed an ISDS mechanism substantially inspired by the WTO dispute settlementmechanism.TheEUhas succeeded tohave the ISDSchapter in the recentlynegotiatedCETAwith

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Canada.ThisproposalhadalsobeenincorporatedintheEUVietnamFTAandtherearesuggestionsthatitisalsoonthetableaspartoftheTTIPnegotiations.ThesupportfortheEUapproachremains,forthetimebeing,embryonic.TheEUCommissionhasbeeninstructedtopushforitscourtproposalinallfutureFTAs,whichsuggeststhatitwillalsobeonthetableinfutureAEUFTAnegotiations.Thispresentationwilldiscuss thekeyparameters thatwill shape thedesignof theAEUFTA investmentdisputerésultionssystem.JulienChaisseisProfessoratTheChineseUniversityofHongKong(CUHK),FacultyofLaw.Heisanaward-winningscholarofinternationallawwithaspecialfocusontheregulationanddevelopmentofeconomicglobalization.Inadditiontohisprofessorship,Dr.ChaisseisamemberoftheTradeandInvestment Councilof theWorld Economic Forum (WEF). He is also awell-experienced arbitratoranda leadingconsultant to internationalorganizations,governments,multinational law firms,andprivateinvestors.ProfJulienChaisseChineseUniversityofHongKong,[email protected],KALOKFalling between two stools: "Decentring" EU foreignpolicy and implications for "human rights" inChinaThispapercriticallyexaminescallsamongEUforeignpolicyscholarsforaless"EU-centic"andsome"outsidein"approachestoexplorenewoptionsforEUexternalrelations.Whileitisalwaysdesirableto achievemutuality and commonality through "sharing hearts andminds", one cannot be led tothinkthatsuchbenignintentionswillalwaysbringfruits.ThetragiccaseoftheNobelpeacelaureateLiu Xiaobo illustrates China's growing self-confidence in the face of global calls for the end ofprosecution.Chinawasdetermined tomakeNorwaya scapegoat. It is arguedhere thatautocratsaroundtheworldshouldwelcome"decentring"tocreatepoliticaldiscoursesandtomanipulatetheEU'schoiceofactionsintheirfavour.However,withregardstothelogicofappropriatenessandthelogic of consequentialism, the efforts towards "decentring" EU's foreign policy is like squaring acircle,andmayfallbetweentwostools.Keywords:Decentring,China,LiuXiaobo,EUforeignpolicyKennethKaLokCHANisanassociateprofessorattheDepartmentofGovernmentandInternationalStudies, Hong Kong Baptist University and President of the Hong Kong Association for EuropeanStudies. He was a member of the Legislative Council in 2012-2016. His research areas includeEuropean Politics, Democratization, EU’s external relations as well as Government and Politics ofHongKong.DrKaLokChanHongKongBaptistUniversity,[email protected]

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DAVISON,REMYNoGrexit:HowendingfiscalsovereigntyresolvedtheGreekcrisisEU institutions – in particular, the European Central Bank, the European Commission and theEuropeanStabilityMechanism(ESM)–effectivelyendedfiscalsovereigntyinGreeceduringthe2015Greek financial crisis. The paper examines why the EU limited financial assistance to Greecefollowing itspaymentsdefault in June2015,causeddomesticbankclosuresandsevere limitationson withdrawals from Greek banks. In July 2015, the Greek government applied for financialassistancefromtheESM.TheESMproposedamemorandumofunderstandingoutliningfiscalandadministrativereforminGreeceinreturnforan€86billionbailoutpackage.ThepaperalsodiscusseshowtheimpassebetweentheGreekgovernmentandtheEUinstitutionswasresolvedwiththenewbailoutpackage.ThefinalsectionofthepaperassessestheimpactoftheresponsestakenbythekeyEUinstitutions,togetherwiththeIMF,inmanagingthecrisis.DrRémyDavisonisJeanMonnetChairinPolitics&EconomicsatMonashUniversity,andAssociateDirectoroftheMonashEuropeanandEUCentre.He is theauthorofThePoliticalEconomyoftheEurozoneCrises(forthcoming);TheNewGlobalPoliticsoftheAsia-Pacific:ConflictandCooperationintheAsianCentury(2017);andThePoliticalEconomyofSingleMarketEurope(2011).DrRémyDavisonMonashUniversity,[email protected],CESARGrandStrategicThinkingintheEuropeanUnionThink-tanks are flourishing and competing across theworld as there is a general need for betterunderstandingandadaptationtoaplethoraoftraditionalandnewchallenges.Strategicthink-tanks(STT)broadlydistilthepastandpresenttobetterprepareforalternativefutures,nolongeronlyinsecurity issues, but in a fuller range of political, economic and socio-cultural matters; not onlyfocusing on domestic factors and impacts, but increasingly within a global context. In the earlydecades of European integration, global strategy was driven by few political personalities largelywithin a transatlantic mind-set. Since the 1990s, European countries have been developing theirsystems of foresight based on strategic think-tanks (would provide some national examples),exploringtransnationalnetworks(TEPSA,FORNET,ECFR,etc.),andevenreachingouttoAsia(CAEC,CSCAP, etc.). Since the 2000s, the EU institutions have enacted more global and comprehensivestrategies(theSolanaStrategyin2013,theEuropeanUnionGlobalStrategyin2016),buttheyhavefailed to consolidate a permanent European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) thatincreasescoordinationamongthemanyforwardstudiesgroupsofEU institutionsandmanyother

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STT and experts within Europe and beyond. My paper would mainly elaborate on the tensionbetweenthenationalandEuropeanlevels,andonfactorsthatmayexplainthegreatfragmentationandlimitedreachofstrategicthinkingwithintheEU.César de Prado is an Associate Professor at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies(Guangzhou, China),where he teaches on Europe, Europe-China relations andWorld Politics, andresearches to explain, foresee and strengthen strategic relations between Europe and actors anddifferentpartsofAsiacompatiblewith itsvalues.He received in2002hisPhD fromtheEuropeanUniversityInstitute(EUI.eu)inFlorencewithathesisonGlobalPoliticalEconomy,andwentbacktothe EUI in 2014 as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Global Governance Programme. He hassingle-authored two books (GlobalMulti-level Governance 2007; Oriéntate en Oriente 1997), co-edited one on Central Asia in Spanish (2010), and single-authored over 30 academic and policypapers.GuangdongUniversityofForeignStudiesCesardePradocesar.deprado@protonmail.comDESADELEER,NICOLASCentrifugalandcentripetalforcesatplayinrespecttotheCommonCommercialPolicyMemberStatesandtheEuropeanCommissionhavebeenatloggerheadsregardingtheallocationofcompetencesregardingtheCommonCommercialPolicy.Roughlyspeaking,theCommissionsupportexclusivecompetencesthatcurtaintheMemberStates’roomformanoeuvrewhereastheMemberStatesfavoursharedcompetences.InitsOpinion2/15onthevalidityoftheEU-SingaporeTradeandInvestmentTreaty,theCJEUtooktheviewthatEUexclusivecompetencesare likelytoprevail inanumber of areas encompassed within the CCP, with the exception of ISDS and portfolioinvestments.Giventhat thetraderelationshipsof theEUmightbeverymuchunderpinnedbytheconclusionofaswatheofnewbilateral tradeagreements (a timely issue forAustraliabutalso fortheUK),thereisaneedtoshedlightuponboththecentripetalandthecentrifugalprocessesatplay.NicolasdeSadeleerisprofessoroflawatSaintLouisUniversity,Brussels,andguestprofessoratUCL.BasedinBrussels,heplaysanactivepart indebatesonEUlegalandinstitutional issues.Authorofmorethan300publications,heheldfrom2004to2005aEUMarieCuriechaironriskassessmentandriskmanagementatthe lawfacultyoftheUniversityofOslo. In2010,hewasawardedaJeanMonnetChairfocusingontradeandenvironmentconflict.ProfdeSadeleerisvisitingtheUniversityofCanberraasaparticipantintheUniversity’sDistinguishedInternationalVisitorProgram.ProfNicolasdeSadeleerStLouisUniversity,BelgiumDistinguishedInternationalVisitor,UniversityofCanberra,[email protected]

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DIFRANCESCO-MAYOT,SOPHIEUkraine’sQuestforEUMembershipOn11May2017,theEuropeanUnionandtheEuropeanCouncilrepresentativesapprovedthevisa-freetravelforUkrainians.ThispolicyhasbeenconsideredamilestoneinthehistoryofEU-UkrainerelationsandgaveUkrainiansrenewed impetus forEUmembership. Current relationsareshapedthrough the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Ukraine’s desire to become an EU membercommenced in 1994 when the government declared EU integration as its main foreign policyobjective. Despite their eagerness to join the European family, the country has experiencednumerous internal and external setbacks including, the EU’s reluctance to expand to post-Sovietnations, poor economicperformance inUkraine, a lackof democracy (particularly throughout the1990s) and internal instability (post-Orange Revolution). Ukraine’s persistence for acquiring EUmembershipposesanimportantquestion:consideringincreasingscepticismregardingthefutureoftheEUwhichhasbeenwitnessedbytheongoingeconomicmalaise,Brexitandtheriseofpopulistradicalright-wingparties,whyarecountrieslikeUkrainesokeentoacquireEUmembership?Asthispaper will demonstrate, despite the current crises, the EU continues to represent for manyEuropeansaregionalorganisationwherevaluesofdemocracy,freedomanddiversityareupheldandprotected.Keywords:Ukraine,EuropeanUnion,Russia,Integration,Democracy.Dr.SophieDiFrancesco-MayotiscurrentlyanLectureratDeakinUniversity.SheteachesintheunitEurope’s Political Transformation which surveys themain political changes which are challengingEurope. She is currently contributing to the publication of a book Why the Left Loses: Socialdemocracyinastateofflux.In2015,SophiewasateachingassociateattheSchoolofLanguagesandLinguistics,MonashUniversityandanassociate lecturerattheUniversityCentre inMayotte intheDepartmentofLaw,EconomicsandManagement. In2014,Sophieunderwentan internshipat theEuropean External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, Belgium where she worked with theAfghanistan,Pakistan,SriLanka,BangladeshandMaldivesdivisionandassistedinthemanagementoftheASEMSOM(SeniorofficialMeeting).In2013,Sophiewasateachingassociateandfullsubjectcoordinator of aMaster unit EuropeanUnion: History, Debates, Politics and of an undergraduateunitEnlightenmentFoundations.Shewasalsoa researchassistant fora IntegraProject fundedbytheJeanMonnetGrantfromtheEuropeanCommission.Throughoutheracademicyears,SophiehaspresentedatanumberofinternationalconferencesinAustralia,presentingpapersonthequestionofwhetherTurkeyshouldbecomeamemberoftheEUandontheFrenchSocialistParty.DrSophieDiFrancesco-MayotDeakinUniversity,[email protected]

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DOSER,FRANZISAANewGenerationof Europeans: Refugee integration throughearly education atGermanprimaryschoolsFollowing theEuropeanUnion’s 2015 refugee crisis,Germanyhas taken inmore thanonemillionSyrians,andnowfacesa largeclashofculture, religionandsocialnorms (MigrationPolicyCentre,2016).Onepathwaytopromotethe integrationofnewlyarrivedmigrants iseducation: It lays thefoundation for a successful integration into German society and thus, the EU. German primaryschool curriculaand teaching strategiesare characterizedby regional states’educationagenda. Inordertoensuretheestablishmentofequalopportunitiesforprimaryschool integrationacrossthecountry’snewsociallandscape,thisresearchcomparestheimplementationofGermanfederalandEUguidelinesonrefugeeeducationwiththeregionallyappliedteachingmethodsinprimaryschools.ConsideringGermany’smodernhistoryofhavingbeendivideduntil1990,theformerEastandWesthave made contrasting experiences with refugee migration, which may impact their regionalteaching strategies. Interviews with educational staff from one representative primary school ofeach region will contribute to a more comprehensive oversight of the current situation ofeducationalintegrationinGermanyandthebroaderEU.FranziscaDoserisanMEUROstudentattheNationalCentreforResearchonEuropeatUC.Shehasspenttime living inGermany,SingaporeaswellasNewZealandandtheseexperienceshavegivenher a broad insight into multiculturalism, integration, education, local media and interculturalcommunication.MsFranziscaDoserUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected],JANERegionalIntegrationinServices;UsingtheSTRItomeasureprogresswiththeServicesDirectiveandtheEUDigitalSinglemarketThepaperdescribestheEUapproachtoregionalmarketintegrationinservices,lookingattheuseofregulations, directives and other key elementsmaking up the singlemarket for services. It alsodescribes the variable manner in which the services directive is implemented providing someexamplesfromprofessionalservicessectors. The“fourfreedoms”oftheEUsinglemarketwork inthedirectionofenablingtradeinservicesbecausemostservicestransactionsinvolveuseofmultipledeliverymodes.ServicesTradeRestrictivenessIndices(STRI)neverthelessshowthereispersistentheterogeneityofpreferential services tradepolicies across theEUMemberStates, across servicessectorsandacrossmodesofsupply.Againstthebackgroundofdigitisationandtheimpactofnewtechnologiesontradeinservices,thepaperalsotakesaninitial lookatsomeaspectsofthedigitalsingle market focussing on examples from, and STRI measures for, telecommunications (which

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provides the essential infrastructure and enabling services backbone for the single digitalmarket)andprofessionalservices (whicharecurrentlyundergoingdeepdigital transformation). Thepaperidentifiessomeoftheremainingintra-EUbarriersinthesesectorsandposesanumberofquestionsforfutureresearch.ItalsoconsidersthepotentialroleofdigitaltradebarriersintherelativelylowintensityofdigitalisationinAustralia/EUtradeflows.AustralianandEuropeanPerspectives:FindingCommonGroundinanFTAThis is a broadpaper focusingon theAustralia/EU relationship froma strategic political economyperspectiveinthemultilateralandregionaltradecontext,alsotakingBrexitintoaccount.ItlooksatthecrowdedEUtradeagendaandtheextenttowhichanFTAwithAustraliamightseemtofitintoEUpriorities,athowchallenging thenegotiationsmightappear tobe for theEU,at thedegreetowhichoffensiveinterestsintheAustralianmarketonthepartoftheEU27andtheUKmightoverlapand how the overall balance of negotiating interest might be shifting for the EU27. From anAustralianperspective,thepaperfocusesonthesizeandimportanceoftheeconomicrelationshipwiththeEUMemberStatesandpotentialbenefitsofmoreopentrade, investmentandregulatorycooperation with the EU. Challenges are also highlighted, including with respect to potentialnegotiatingprecedent setting forexample forprofessional services anddigital trade (cross-borderdataflowsanddatalocalisation).Forbothnegotiatingpartners,thepaperexploreshowthisFTAislikelytoimpactonthepursuitoftradeandinvestmentstrategiesinAsiaPacific,atatimewhentheEU is increasing its footprint in the regionAustralia has long considered its backyard. The papersuggestspossibledirectionsforfutureregionalcooperation.

JaneDrake-BrockmanisDirectoroftheEUCentreforGlobalAffairs,UniversityofAdelaide.Aformerdiplomat,sheservedasMinisterattheAustralianDelegationtotheEUinBrussels.Shehasworkedwith the International Trade Centre in Geneva, Commonwealth Secretariat in London and OECDSecretariat in Paris; founded the Australian Services Roundtable; served as Executive Committeemember,HongKongCoalitionofServicesIndustries,Convenor,PECCTaskforceonServicesandco-convenes the newAsia Pacific Services Coalition. She has taughtMacroeconomics at the ChineseUniversity of HK: published extensively on trade policy issues; contributed to 3 World EconomicForumExpertsGroups-onGlobalValueChains;Services:Trade,Finance,Development.MsJaneDrake-BrockmanUniversityofAdelaideJane.drake-brockman@adelaide.edu.auELIJAH,ANNMARIEAustralia-EUservicestrade:wherearethebarriersThe services trade restrictiveness index enables comparison on a country by country basis acrossdifferentservicessectors.ThispapercomparesthelevelsofrestrictivenessbetweenAustraliaandits

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mainEUmemberstatepartners.Theaim is toprovidebackgroundto theserviceschapterswhichwill form an important part of the forthcomingAustralia-EU trade agreement. Inwhich sectors isAustralia more restrictive than EU member states, and vice versa? Does the index give us anindication of where the most significant gains in services trade might be? Where restrictivenessvaries significantly across the EU, what does this tell third country partners about the level ofeconomic integration in services trade inside the singlemarket?Where restrictiveness ishigher inAustraliathaninEUmemberstates,couldtherebeafederaldimensiontothebarriers?Dr Annmarie Elijah is Associate Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies. She previouslyworkedasapolicyofficerintheAustralianDepartmentofPrimeMinisterandCabinetandshehastaughtpoliticsattheUniversityofMelbourne,VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonandANU.HerPhD(University of Melbourne) examined the implications of British membership of the EuropeanCommunityforAustralia.Hercurrentresearchisfocussedoncomparativeregional integrationandfederalism in Europe and Australasia. She recently held the Europe-Australia Business CouncilFellowshipatANU.In2016shewasawardedJeanMonnetfundingtotraingovernmentandindustryaheadoftheforthcomingAustralia-EUtradeagreementnegotiations.DrAnnmarieElijahAustralianNationalUniversity,[email protected],ANTHONYDigitalBorderlands:AustraliaandtheEUattheedgeofhistoryThispaper takes itsconceptualcue fromtherecentwritingsofMichelAgier,whohasarguedthatthefigureofthedisplacedhumanhasinourowntimebeenrenderedboth“inside”and“outside”,enclosedontheonehandandexcludedontheother.Reflectingonthelivesofenforcedmigrants,the paper considers afresh the global migration crisis in the light of Agier’s twin theses of“decentringtheworld”and“thedecentredsubject”.ElliottcontendsthatmuchinAgier’sanalysisisof importance,butextendsthisapproachbyarguingthecase fora“doubledecentringofselfandworlds”.Whilsttheremaybenothinghistoricallynewaboutenforcedmigration,whatisdifferentisthatwenowlive inatimeof instantaneouscommunications. Thepaperconcludesbyconsideringtheimpactsofthedigitalrevolutionandadvancedglobalizationintermsofimmobility,asylumandenforced migration, and of how these global transformations are rewriting the interconnectionsbetweenmobilityandimmobility.Anthony Elliott is Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia, where he isExecutive Director of the Hawke EU Centre and Research Professor of Sociology. He is alsoSuperGlobalProfessorofSociology(Visiting)atKeioUniversity,Japan.Heistheauthorandeditorofsome40books,translatedintoover12languages.HismostrecentbooksincludeIdentityTroubles(2016),TheConsequencesofGlobalDisasters(withEricHsu,2016),andTheRoutledgeHandbookofPsychoanalysisintheSocialSciencesandHumanities(editedwithJeffreyPrager,2016).

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ProfAnthonyElliottUniversityofSouthAustralia,[email protected],BERENGEREStrategic Narrative Alignment: Analysing the projection of French and EU narratives about GlobalEnergyGovernanceEachcountryintheEuropeanUnionhaschosendifferentpathsandhavedifferentprioritiesintermsof energy. Some choose to move away from nuclear energy, others seek through renewableenergiestodiversifytheirenergymix.France’sattachmenttonuclearenergymakesitaninterestingcase. This research will analyse how France’s particular energy interests and policies (ie. strongnuclear energy policy) direct the way it presents itself as an international energy actor. In otherwords, it hypothesises that France's local energy concerns andenergypolicieswill frame France'slocal narrative on global energy governance and France’s visions of relations with other energyactors.Withthishypothesis,theresearchseekstoidentifythewayinwhichastateactorframesitsnarrative with strategic intentions. In doing so, it hopes to develop a theoretical understanding,based on empirical evidence, about how strategic actors align their communication with theirstrategicinterestsinordertoinfluenceadomesticaudienceandframethedebatesinordertogainpolicylegitimacy.Equally,ithypothesisethattheEU,havingitsownforeignpolicygoalswithregardsto energy, will frame its communications on energy in alignment with these goals. France is aparticularenergyactor,withverydifferentenergyintereststhanotherEuropeancountries.Assuchthere will be areas of external energy policy in which its national interest will differ from theinterestsoftheEUasawhole.Therefore,thisresearchhypothesisethatFrance’sframesof‘Self’and‘Others’intheenergyfieldwillbedifferentfromtheEU’sself-perceptionsandperceptionsofothersin the field of global energy governance. In doing so, itwill look at how the EU’s external energypolicies and narratives about energymay impact the communication of France’s narrative aboutglobalenergygovernance.BérengèreGreenlandisaPhDcandidateattheUniversityofCanterburyinChristchurch.Hercurrentresearch focusesonperceptionsofglobalenergygovernance inFrance. In2013, sheawarded theEUCNMEP internship scholarship and interned at the European Parliament in 2014. In the past,Bérengère researched Tunisian perceptions of the EU and Normative Power Europe since theTunisianrevolution.Shehasalsobeeninvolvedinaresearchprojectconcerningthewaysinwhichthe European Union and Europe appear in New Zealand social studies textbooks and in aninternationalresearchprojectontheEUasaninternationalenergyplayer.MsBérengèreGreenlandUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected]

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GRETTON,PAULMakingthemostoftradepolicythroughBrexitThe United Kingdom is entering into the Brexit process at a time when the global economy isgraduallyrecoveringfromtheeffectsoftheglobalfinancialcrisis.Currentprojectionsindicatethatgrowthmaycontinuetobesluggishinthemediumterm.Brexitwillhavemanydimensionsbutkeyamong these is theconditions that theUnitedKingdomand theEuropeanUnionelect to conductmerchandise trade on Brexit. The choice on this matter will be important in setting the broaderenvironment for theconductof tradeandcommercebetween theUnitedKingdom, theEuropeanUnionandothercountries intothefuture.Thestarkchoicesarebetween: (i) theUnitedKingdomremaining in the single market through continued membership of the European EconomicAssociation(EEA);(ii)exitingoftheEEAandseekingtonegotiatepreferentialtradedealswiththeEUand other trading partners and trading blocs; and (iii) committing to full unilateral tradeliberalizationtoplacelocalbusinessinthebestpositiontocompetelocallyandinternationally.Thispaper uses a global economic model to assess the economic implications of each of thesealternatives.Forrulesoforiginreasonsandtheextendedtimelagsinnegotiatingpreferentialdeals,the pursuit of the second option would be costly to industry and the community more broadly.While fullunilateral liberalizationwouldbedifficultandthedesire to leavetheEuropeanUnion islikelytoruleoutremaininginthesinglemarket,theUnitedKingdomwouldbebestservedbyaimingforoneoftheseseeminglyimpossiblealternatives.FortheEuropeanUniontradepolicyformulationthat favouredgreatertradeopennessandeconomicreformwouldhelpsmooththeBrexitprocessandrevivegrowthprospects.PaulGrettonisaformerAssistantCommissionerattheAustralianProductivityCommissionwhereheheaded theTradeandEconomicStudiesbranch.Thebranchwas responsible for tradepolicyreviews, assessment of the impacts of national economic reforms, productivity reporting andquantitative economicmodelling. Paul has been responsible for commissioned reports includinginto Rules of Origin; Retail Tenancy Leases; Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements; and theimpacts and benefits of national economic reform. Paul has also undertaken research intoproductivity, land degradation and the Australian agricultural industry, firm size and exportperformanceandtheimpactofICTsoneconomicgrowth.HewasresponsibleforthepreparationoftheCommission’sannualTrade&AssistanceReview.PaulhasworkedasanadvisorinPakistan,theKyrghyzRepublicandUkraine,andhasrepresentedAustralia in forums in theAsia-PacificandOECDareas.Currently,Paul is aVisitingFellowat theCrawford School and an associate of the Centre of European Studies at the Australian NationalUniversity. Paul’s research interests are in the areas of economic growth, national economicreform and trade policy. Paul regularly uses economy-wide economic modelling to supportassessmentsofkeypolicyissues.MrPaulGrettonAustralianNationalUniversityPaul.gretton@anu.edu.au

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HARRER,ANNEPleasemindthegap.SocialCleavagesandBrexitintheUKandtheEU.NeverhasUnitedEuropeandtheUnitedKingdombeensodisunitedasitistodayandneverhasttheEuropeanquestionsointensivelybeenmirroredinthenationalandEuropeanpartylandscape.This“Gretchen”-questionmakespartiesdriftapart,leadstotheemergenceofnewonesandunderminesothersasstagnantandirrelevant.Butcanthesedisintegrative“Rexit”-movementsfromtheEUandthustheconceptofEuroscepticismbeconsideredasnewdividinglines?TheCleavageTheoryaimstograspandexplain these socialdriftsby its theoretical frame, allowing to findananswer to thequestion inhowfartheBrexitvotecanbeperceivedasafungusthatdividesthesociety. Inafirstpart,therevisitedcleavagetheoryofSamuelLipsetandRokkanSteinwillbeoutlinedanddiscussed.In the following empirical part, the classical cleavages in the UK and the EU will be analysedregardingtheirdevelopmentsoverthelasttwentyyears.Onetheonehand,thisstudywillshedlightonhowfarEuroscpeticismhasevolvedasapotentialnewcleavageandhowthequestionofidentityandbelongingcanbeperceivedasasocial-regionalcleavage, inparticularregardstotheScotland,IrelandandWalesdisintegrativemovements.Throughoutmy studies, I have focusedondeepeningmy knowledgeonGerman-French,German-British and European-Pacific-Asian relations, while profiting from a challenging academicenvironmentat theFreeUniversityofBerlin, theSorbonneNouvelleParis IIIandtheUniversityofPassau.Overtime,IhavenotonlyachievedavalidlevelofexpertiseinthesestudiesbutIhavealsoworkedasaprojectmanagerinParisandBerlinasIunderstandpoliticalscienceasagenuinepartofpolitical life which is responsible for nourishing and promoting debates with factual concepts,possibleimplicationsandexplanations.MsAnneHarrerUniversityofPassau,[email protected],JOHNDisastersKnowNoBorders:DisasterRiskManagementintheEuropeanUnionAlthoughmostworkonthefieldofregionalismhasfocussedonsharedeconomicgoalsasthekeytosuccessful co-operation, in fact co-operation in the field of disaster management has a longerlineageandinrecentyearshasonceagainrisentotheforeinfaceofanincreasinginabilityofstatestocopewithdisasterevents.ThispaperpresentstheEuropeanUnion’sresponse inacomparativecontext.PartofaprojectfundedbytheEUCNitexaminesboththeadvancednatureoftheformalUnionCivil ProtectionMechanismandpractical problems that it still encounters.Despite the fact

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that states clearly need to co-operate more effectively if they are to successfully manage thegrowingriskofdisasterevents,whydomanystatesstillstruggletoeffectivelyutilisethemechanism.GiventherequirementsoftheSendaiframework,willEuropeanDisasterRiskManagementprovidea further limitedanddecisivepoint todriveEuropeanco-operation forward ina field traditionallyassociatedwiththeveryessenceofthesovereignstate?Dr. Hopkins is a comparative public lawyer who also works in the fields of European andinternational law.Much of his researchwork has examined the development of federal ormulti-levelgovernanceatthedomesticandinternationallevels.Hisrecentfocusinthisareahasbeentheconnectionbetweendomestic and internationalpublic lawand theapplicationof federal ideas tointernationalorganisations. Since2010hehasdevelopeda strong research interest in the fieldofdisaster risk management as a direct result of his experiences in the Canterbury earthquakesequencesof2010-11.DrJohnHopkinsUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected],SARAHThePoliticalEconomyofEuropeanUnionRegionalPolicyinstrengtheningtheEUpoliticalprojectThis is a paper about the policy design of EU ‘Smart Specialisation’ policy (RIS3) (2014- 2020) inshapingregionaleconomicdevelopmentin‘periphery’regionsofEurope.Unlikeearlierworkinthefield of economic geography that has contributed greatly to the analysis of the policy utilisingquantitativeapproaches,here the focus isexclusivelyaboutprovidingaqualitativeanalysisof thestrengthsandchallengesassociatedwiththeoverarchingpolicydesignoftheRIS3policy.TheSmartSpecialisationpolicyevolved in the contextof theGlobal FinancialCrisis in the1990swith theEURegionalpolicy settings graduallyembarkingonanewdirection,underpinnedbyanewefficiencyimperativeunderpinningregionaldevelopmentgaols.WorkingwiththeOECDtodevelopthepolicy,the changed approach has centred on building innovation through establishing the institutionalarchitecture at the level of the region to enable the interaction required between regionalstakeholderstoencouragecompetitivenessofregions.Thisshifthasbeendescribedasrepresentinga significant transition away from EU regional policy focusing on purely redistributive aims toincreasinglyanemphasiswitheconomicdevelopmentpoliciesnotjusttopromotetheconvergenceoflaggingorrestructuringregions,butalsotofeedintoEU-wideeconomicadvances.Utilisingacasestudymethodology,thispaperfirstexaminesdocumentarydatatoexploretheimplicationsofRIS3policy design at the level of the EU and the case study region of Bratislava in Slovakia. Secondly,interviewdata isexamined that seeks toprovideparallelevidencegained fromofficialdocumentsabout the strengths and challenges associatedwith theRIS3policy design. Three elements of thepolicy will be addressed. The political context and governance challenges of the policy will beassessedinviewofwheretheregionisplacedinnegotiationswithintheEUmulti-levelgovernancestructure. Itwill then consider the extent towhich the policies suggested ‘innovation typology’ is

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appropriate for diverse regions given the industrial characteristics and pattern of innovationassociated with different regions. Finally, the paper will provide analysis on the extent to whichexisting regional assets including formal knowledge assets exist in the region (public and privateR&D) will present a barrier to what the RIS3 policy design is trying to achieve. Preliminaryexamination of the data gathered for this paper has found that under the three sets of criteriaoutlined,thattherearebothstrengthsandbarrierstopolicy implementationinthecontextofthepolicy design of the RIS3 policy. The study suggests that stakeholders in regions located in‘periphery’regionslocatedinCentralandEasternEuropehavehoweverexperiencedproblemswithdifferent elements of the policy design relating to regional participation in governance processes,concern about the model of innovation being proposed for ‘industrial production’ regions andexperiences of low levels of ‘regional assets’ conducive to aspiration to achieve a diversified andinnovativeregionaleconomy.Sarah Howe is a PhD student based at RMIT, School of Global Urban Social Studies and RMITEuropeanUnionCentreMsSarahHoweRMIT,[email protected],PIAO-HAORightToBeForgotteninTheEUAndAsia-IsRightToPrivacyAUniversalConcept?In 2010, the European Commission proposed the idea of the so-called “right to be forgotten.”However,itwasnotuntilthedeliveryfromtheCourtofJusticeoftheEuropeanUnion(CJEU)ontheGoogleSpainCasein2014,thatwide-spreaddiscussionsonthesubjectaroseinalmostallpartsoftheworld. Inaddition, the legislativedesignsimilar totheright toerasurehasbeencompassed inthe General Data Protection Regulation in 2012, and was eventually passed by the EuropeanParliamentin2016.Ontheotherhand,developmentregardingthis“righttobedelisted”startedtotakeonalifeofitsowninAsiannationssuchasJapan,Taiwan,andChina,wherenetizenspercapitasignificantlyoutnumberthoseinEurope.Nevertheless,internetusersinAsiatendstohavepracticesof“protecting”theirpersonaldatadivergentfromtheirEuropeancounterparts,ifnotusingthemasanalternativeandyetofficiallyacknowledgedformofcurrency.Bypresentingthreerespectivecasesof the right tobe forgotten in theabovementionedAsiancountries, thisarticleaims toshowthatlegalprofessionalsinthesejurisdictions,despitealreadyundertheinfluenceofthenormativepowerof the European Union, took a deviating approach concerning the right of oblivion anddemonstrated different attitudes towards privacy. Furthermore, these Asian courts adoptedreasoningdissimilartotheCJEUanddecidedaccordinglytoofferdisparatelevelsoflegalprotection.Piao Hao Hsu is currently a Ph.D. candidate of Graduate Institute of European Studies, TamkangUniversity. Until April 2017, he worked as Legal Researcher at the Science and Technology LawInstitute (STLI), Institute for Information Industry,wherehewas responsible forpolicy research in

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the field of energy law and innovative technology. Prior to STLI, Hsu also worked as a SeniorAssistant Research Fellow at the Taiwan Research Institute,was a Direct Dialogue Campaigner atGreenpeace,andaProgramAssociateatHumanRightsinChina(HongKongOffice).HsureceivedhisLL.M.(MasterofLaw)fromtheUniversityofAmsterdamandLL.B.fromNationalTaiwanUniversity.MrPiaoHaoHsuTamkang,[email protected]

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KAMPMARK,BINOYSovereignty,CurrencyandControl:TheFutureoftheEurozoneTheeurohasbecome thechurchbeforewhichallwhowish toembraceaEuropeanprojectmustworship. Ideally speaking, the zone is spokenabout in technocratic circles inunquestioned terms,compacted in amixof idealismand intenseproceduralmanagement. Countries joindo soon theassumption that being within the zone is indispensable to trade and productivity, drawing downbarriersforproductswhilereceivinggeneroussubsidiesforlocalindustriesandservices.Evenaftertheeconomictorturesinflictedoncountrieswithlaggingeconomiesandpoorfiscalpolicy,thereisstillasuggestionthattobeintheEuropeanUnionandwithinacommoncurrencybloc,isfarbetterthan being out of it. The populist critique of that position, however, has taken the view thatsovereigntyneedstobereclaimedfromthemonetaryunion,andtheinstitutionsdecentralisedfromthemakingofforeign, legalandmonetarypolicy.Thisdiscussionexaminesthepressingchallengesby considering thenatureofmonetary sovereignty, its limits, and the acuteproblems challengingthe Euro bloc in light of the financial crisis of 2008.More recent problems include Greece as anexemplar of the bloc’s monetary dysfunctionalism and the emergence of nationalist movementskeentodetachlocalinstitutionsfromEuropeanones.Inparticular,itcanbearguedthataformofreclamation of sovereignty is taking place, certainly at the rhetorical level, fed by momentumgenerated by the Brexit vote in June 2016, and the prospects of an unravelling of the commonprojectacrossanumberofcountriesdeemedtraditionalEuropeanists. Ifnotaddressed,thisdriveemphasisingsovereigntywillbecomeaneworthodoxy,comingintheformofafracturingimplosion,notonlywithinthecurrencyblocbuttheEUitself.DrBinoyKampmarkisaseniorlecturerintheSchoolofGlobal,UrbanandSocialStudies,RMIT.HewasaCommonwealthScholaratSelwynCollege,CambridgeUniversity.DrBinoyKampmarkRMIT,[email protected],SERENAShiftingframes:External&InternalMediaFramingofBREXITinNZBritain’sreferendumdecisiontoleavetheEuropeanUnion(EU)inJune2016,hasresultedinpoliticaland economic uncertainty in Britain, Europe and around theworld. Resultantly, there has been agreatdealofspeculationaboutthepossibleoutcomeoftheArticle50negotiations.Whilewedonotwishtoaddtothespeculation,weapplypoliticalpsychologytocontentmediaanalysis inordertounderstandhowthephenomenonofso-called“BREXIT”hasbeenframedandunderstoodinoneof

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Britain’sclosestallies–NewZealand. Using,andextending,anestablishedresearchmethodology,this paper is interested in the New Zealand media’s coverage of BREXIT in 3 time periods –immediatelyaftertheandaroundtheUSelection,DifferentiatingbetweenBREXITnewsoriginatingfromNewZealandandfromUKnewssources,thispaperexaminestheconceptof‘shiftingframes’(Voltolini2016)inexternalimagesofBREXIT.ThepaperanalysesNZvsUKauthoredarticlesdealingwith BREXIT with a specific focus on chronological attitudes and emotionality towards BREXIT.Drawingonthepsychologicalchange-curvemodel(Kubler-Ross1969),wearguethatbecauseofthehugechangeimpliedbyBREXIT,theacceptanceoftheeventwilloccurinemotionalstages,withthechange curve model serving as the ideal process of acceptance. According to the model, NewZealand remains stuck in the stages of pre-acceptance and grief, while sources printed in theanalysedNZmedia,originatingfromtheUKindicatethatBritainhasreachedtheacceptancephase.ThefindingsareimportantasNewZealand,aformerBritishcolony,sufferedaneconomic,politicalandidentitycrisiswhenBritainjoinedtheEU’sprecursor,theEuropeanEconomicCommunity(EEC)inthe1970s.TheBritishmediacoverageofthedebateevensuggestedthatBritaincouldre-establishstrongerCommonwealthtiesafteritsEUexit.Yetarguably,iftheNewZealandmediabecamestuckinfeelingsofgriefpost-BREXITthiscouldholdbackpolicyprogressionindealingwiththeeconomic,politicalandsocialramificationsofBREXIT.Dr Kelly is a lecturer and research fellowat theNational Centre for Researchon Europe. Shehasbeen involved in a number of international comparative projects examining perceptions of theEuropeanUnion.Shecurrently leadsaresearchprojectexaminingpost-BREXITperceptions inNewZealand.DrSerenaKellyUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected],NATTHANANEuropexit?:AStudyofPopulisminEuropeThepaperaimstostudythree importantquestions,relatingbothcommonornon-institutionalisedpopulist movements and protests in Europe and institutionalised populism through the rises ofEuropean populist political parties that tried to replace the existing gaps between politicians andtheirconstituenciesbylargepoliticalpartiesinrepresentativedemocracy.Thefirstpartistoclarifypopulism in which despite scholars see it as a “thin” ideology, it becomes “thick” movementsespecially spreading through European continent. Although we know that populism is not aninterchangeabletermforfar-rightmovements, it is interestingtoseewhetherright-wingpopulismin particular shared some commonalities to the extreme right. In addition, right wing populistpolitical parties this day playmajor roles as alternatives in European politics, such as the UnitedKingdomIndependenceParty(UKIP)inthecaseofinfluencingBrexitorUK’sreferendumdecidedtoleave the EU, the National Front (FN: Front National) headed byMarine Le Pen, one of the twofinalists for the French Presidential Election’s run-off this May 2017, and a lesser extent of the

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increasing popularity of the Alternative for Germany (AfD: Alternative fuer Deutschland) in localpolitics.Second,thispaperwillstudytheBrexitandtheprobableexitor“Europexit”,coinedhere,inthe rest of EU member states, such as “Frexit” campaigned by Marine Le Pen, or Italeave,Hungaleave,andFinnishetc.TheserightwingtrendsarepararellingwithleftwingpopulistprotestsagainsttheEuro-crisesmanagementintheEuropeanperipheralcountriessuchasGreece.Thethirdquestion is toevaluate towhatextent thesemovementsbothnon-institutionalised in the formofpopulist protests and institutionalized in the form of populist parties destabilize the depth ofeconomicintegrationprojectoftheEU,EuroandEconomicMonetaryUnion(EMU)inparticular,andpoliticalintegrationprojectespeciallyintherealmofinternalsecurityinrefugeecrises.Dr. Kunnamas is Jean Monnet Chair and Jean Monnet Modules coordinator, Director forInterdisciplinary Department for European Studies and an assistant professor in political science,ChulalongkornUniversity.SheisalsoaneditoroftheJournalofEuropeanStudiesoftheCentreforEuropeanStudies,ChulalongkornUniversity.SheobtainedherPhDfromtheUniversityofLeeds.Herresearchprojectsinclude:astudyonMajorPower’sSecurityPolicytowardsSoutheastAsianRegion:TheCaseoftheEuropeanUnion,astudyonMajorPower’sSecurityPolicytowardsSoutheastAsianRegion: The Case of the Russian Federation, and a study on Thailand-Ukraine economic distance:Opportunitiesandchallenges.AssProfNatthananKunnamasChulalongkornUniversity,[email protected],PETARFour Years in the EU: An Analysis of the EUMembership Impacts on the Croatian Economy andDevelopmentalPerspectivesFouryearshavepassedsinceCroatiahasaccessedtheEU.Highexpectationsthathavearisenlongbefore the accession, especially in the late 1990ies and early 2000ies have given way to reality,especially after the outbreak of the economic crisis. Croatia's accession to the EU should have astrongimpactincreatingamorefavorableeconomicclimateduetoincreasedinvestorconfidence.Despitetheimpactofthe2008EconomicCrisisandCroatia'slongstruggletorecoverduringthelongaftermathofwhatbecameknownas theGreatRecession.Croatia struggledwith recession for sixyears, longer than any European economy.Amembership in an associationof traditionally stabledemocratic states would be expected to benefit FDI inflows and the existence of the ExcessiveDeficitProcedureshouldprovideastabilizinginfluenceonCroatia'spublicdebtandbudgetdeficit.Besides assessing thepositive andnegative impacts of the EUmembership onCroatia, this paperaimstoperformanempiricanalysisofFDI inflowsandotherrelevantmacroeconomicvariables, inordertoassessthefullimpactofCroatianmembershipintheEU.Asthemostnegativeimpact,wecan emphasize “brain drain” and emigration in general,which severely decrease the prospects ofdevelopmentinthefutureandput intodoubtthesustainabilityofCroatianhealthcaresystemandpensionsystem,respectively.Thedilemmasareraisedwhetherthebleakperspectivesaremostlya

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product of the delayed EU accession to the EU,which should have occurredmuch earlier, or theendogenous problems, which Croatia is unable to solve for decades (low productivity andcompetitiveness,significantcorruption,lowtransparencyofsocialtransfers,andclientelismetc.).Thispaperisco-authoredwithFilipKokotovicandTrinaMjeda.WouldtheEuropeanDefenseUniondisbandNATOinEurope?The political debate flared up among by EU member states when is spoken among militarydevelopment programme under EU security. This intellectual shift is going to skyrocket aboutpolitical debate how to carry out successfully an army transformation process by building up acommon European army that shall not happen until 2020 and beyond. Security changes andchallengesforEuropeansecuritycouldforcenationalstatestorethinkamongrestructuringnationalarmiesthatsamedaymightbetransformedand interrelated intoEuropeanarmyandgivenundertheEU’ssinglecommand,whichneedstobeseparatedfromNATO’scommandstructure,boththeSHAPEandACOcouldbetoppledintopermanentEUmilitarycommandinBrussels,andseparatedfromUSmilitarycommandstructureinEurope.Europe’sdefensepolicyhastobechangedsomedayanddefenseinstitutionsmightbenecessarytransformedintheEuropeanDefenseUnion(EDU)thatEurope centric defense body shall replace NATO as to guide common defense policy autonomywithoutUSinterdictionanymore.Howtotransformcommandstructureinpraxisisdifficult,andgetconvinceEUmemberstatestostayawayfromNATOpolicy,andfenceitselffromUShostileforeignpolicytobeabletostoppoliticalinstigatingagainstRussianFederation?TheEDUwouldpresentanoptimal solution for Europe to distance itself fromUS policy and prevents EU–NATO states intodirect confrontation with Russian Federation, and would restart defense policy towards RussianFederation.WhywouldtheEDUpresentthebestsolutionfortheEU’ssecurity?BecausetheUSAissometimesplayingdangerouspolitical&wargamesafter theendof theColdWar inEurope thatcouldtriggerregional&globalwars,andNATOmostlyhastofollow,whiletheEDUwouldnothaveto.Thispaperisco-authoredwithBostjanPeternelj.Dr. Petar Kurecic works as Assistant Professor of Political Science and Human Geography at theUniversityNorth,Croatia.Dr.Kurecicistheauthorofonescientificbookandtheauthororco-authorof five papers in indexed journals. His research interests are geopolitics, geoeconomics, andinternational political andeconomic relations. Beforebecomingauniversityprofessor,Dr. Kurecicworked for the Social-democratic party of Croatia and for the Party’s Parliamentary club, was aRepresentativeattheCityAssemblyofZagreb,andaDeanoftheZagrebSchoolofBusiness.DrPetarKurecicUniversityNorth,[email protected]

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LUCKMAN,SUSANCultural transformationand innovation inEurope’sdigitaleconomy–Thecaseof theculturalandcreativeindustriesEconomicparticipation iscentral to fullEuropean integration.According toa2016studypreparedfor theEuropeanCommission,more than3millionenterprises,employingover12millionpeople,make up the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) sector of the EU economy; and these figureswouldbeevenhigheriftheyincludedthehigh-endluxuryindustriesofcraftmakinganddesign.CCIsmakeup11.2%ofallprivateenterprisesandcomprise7.5%ofallpersonsemployedinthetotalEUeconomy.Europe’sCCIsbuilduponstrongdesignandcraftfoundationstobeworldleading;thoughthese same histories of strength give rise to uneven participation patterns and thus differentiallevelsofculturalandeconomicintegrationforCCIswithintheEU,despitetheopportunitiesofferedbytheDigitalSingleMarket.Thispaperreflectsuponhowthepossibilitiesofthedigitaleconomyareimpactingupontheopportunitiesforcreativeworkers intheEU,especiallySMEsandsoletraders.Importantly, it locates these possibilities within larger the cultural transformations enabled andmadevisiblebydigitaltechnology.SusanLuckmanisProfessor:CulturalStudiesandAssociateDirector:ResearchandProgramsoftheHawkeEUCentreforMobilities,MigrationsandCulturalTransformationsattheUniversityofSouthAustralia.SheisalsoCheneyFellowattheUniversityofLeeds,2017-2018.SusanistheauthorofthebooksCraftand theCreativeEconomy (2015)andLocatingCulturalWork (2012),andco-editorofThenewnormalofworkinglives:criticalstudiesincontemporaryworkandemployment(2017),CraftEconomies(2018),andSonicSynergies:Music,Identity,TechnologyandCommunity(2008).ProfSusanLuckmanUniversityofSouthAustralia,[email protected]

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MARKOVICKHAZE,NINABalkancountriesatthecrossroadsbetweentheEU,RussiaandChina:isthereabeaconofhope?Thispaperwillundertakeacomparativestudyof thecountries thathaveonce formedYugoslavia,Europe’sfirstsocialistcountrywithwhichtheEUenteredintoatradeagreementduringearlyColdWarperiod.ItwillalsoincludeAlbania,acountryalsowishingtojointheEU.TheBalkansisanareawheretheEUhasexercisedbothsoftandhardpowersincetheendoftheColdWar.TheEuropeanCommission,aswellasindividualEUmemberstates,havethusfarinvestedbillionsofEurosinaid,state reconstructionanddemocratisationofBalkannations. Thispaperwill argue thatdemocratictransformationhasnotbeencompletedinmostofthoseBalkancountries.WiththeUKexitingtheEU, which is undergoing thereby a process of historical reform, a key concern for the Balkans iswhethertheprocessofenlargementwillcontinuethereinanyforeseeablefuture.ThispaperarguesthatRussiaandChinaarebothseekingtofillthepoliticalvacuumcreatedbysuchuncertainty,withtheBalkancountriesfindingthemselvesatthecrossroadsagaininthescrabbleforinfluencebygreatpowers.Thispaperwilluseathree-tiermethodology. Itwill, firstly,analysepost-Brexitdiscoursesfromthemainstreammedia,politicalpartydocumentsandleadingcivilsocietyorganisationsintheregion.Secondly,itwillexaminethemajorinvestmentsmadebyRussiaandChinaintheregionoverthepastdecade.Lastly,itwillcomparetheEUpresenceor'actorness'withthatofgrowingRussia’sandChina’ssoftpowerinthosecountries,anddrewsomepreliminaryconclusions.Thepaperwillbeinformed by recent fieldwork that has been undertaken in the Balkan region, and previouslyconductedfive-yearresearchintotheEUforeignpolicyintheBalkansandRussia’sandChina’smorerecentcourtingofpoliticalelitestherethathasyieldedsuccess.DrNinaMarkovic Khazeholds a PhD in European studies from theAustralianNationalUniversity,where she is also a Visiting Fellow. Dr Markovic Khaze has taught foreign policy and diplomatichistoryof great andemergingpowers in contemporary international relationsat theUniversityofNewSouthWales.ShehaspreviouslyworkedasSeniorResearcherforEuropeandMiddleEastforParliamentaryResearchServiceinCanberra,havingpublishedextensivelyonthistopicandadvisingMPsandSenatorsonEUandNATO-relatedmatters.Her research interestsalso includeEU-RussiarelationsandChina'sNewSilkRoad.ShealsoworksforSBSasapoliticalcommentator.DrNinaMarkovicKhazeAustralianNationalUniversity,[email protected]

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MASCITELLI,BRUNOEuropeanStudies-WhatitisandwhatstateisitinAustraliaEuropean Studies in Australia has been a theme of observation by Europeanists over the lastdecades.Mostly adisciplineproduct located in tertiaryeducation, it hasbeen subject todifferingdefinitions,interpretationsandthenultimatelypractices.ThedistinctionbetweenEuropeanStudies,EuropeanIntegrationStudiesorevenEuropeanUnionStudiesisadebate,whichhascontinuedandrepresents the differing approaches andmoments of its promotion. Moreover, some disciplineshaveengagedwiththeEuropeanUnionthroughtheirspecificandnon-disciplinaryapproachsuchashistory,politics,lawandeconomics.Heavily influencedby thedimview thatAustraliahadof theEuropeanUnion in the last50years,Europeanstudieshasgone through importantphasesofgrowth,under the radarexistenceand insome localities decline. It has also been a product of university rationalisation and degreereconfiguration.Muchof thishasmoretodowiththecorporatisationofuniversities thanthe lowesteemforEuropeanStudies.Recently theEuropeanUnion,despiteBrexit,hasacquiredagreaterprofileinAustralialargelyduetotheproposedFreeTradeAgreementbetweentheEuropeanUnionandAustralia.However,whether thisnew“awakening” is likely tochangedecadesof tensionandcontroversy between the European Union and Australia and whether this is reflected in thepopularityofEuropeanStudiesinAustraliaisstilltobeseen.BrunoMascitelli isAssociateProfessoratSwinburneUniversityofTechnologyand is JeanMonnetChair (2016-2019). He is also the President of the Contemporary European Studies Association ofAustralia(CESAA).HismajorareasofteachingandresearchincludetheEuropeanUnion,aswellasmigration and expatriate voting and political engagement. He has just published as co-editor“Australia’s new wave of Italian migration: Paradise or illusion?” (2017, Australian ScholarlyPublishing).AssocProfBrunoMascitelliSwinbourneUniversity,[email protected],AINSLEYKEuropeanUnion(EU)-InternationalCriminalCourt(ICC):Examining International Cooperation and Judicial Assistance within the Context of AfricanContestationTheEuropeanUnion(EU)hasbeen instrumental intheestablishmentofthe InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC) since its inceptionunder theRomeStatute, thatentered into forceasof July1, 2002.ReaffirmingtheICC’scoretenets,theEUanditsMemberStatescontinuetopromotetheprinciplesofuniversalityandcomplementarity.Thepurposeand intentaretoeradicate impunityconcerning

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themostseriousofallcrimes;genocide,warcrimes,andcrimesagainsthumanity.Nowatacriticaljuncture, theEUhasbeencriticisedfor itssustainedpoliticalandfinancialcontributiontothe ICC,andhasbeenaccusedofnegatively impactingupon thecourt'sability to remain independentandimpartial. Furthermore, such speculationhasnotonlypotentiallydiscredited the legitimacyof thecourt in general, it has also further deteriorated the contentous relationship between theAfricanUnion (AU) and the ICC, thus widening antagonism, that happens to also coincide with thecontraversorysurroundingtheissueofarrestwarrants,namelythatofindictee,PresidentofSudan,OmarAl-Bashir.ThispaperwillexaminetheextenttowhichtheEUpromotesinternationalcooperationandjudicialassistance in respect to effectuating arrest warrants within the context of the Al –Bashir Case.Second,analysisintotheAfricancontestationwillbeconsideredasabyproductofthiscase.Themethodologicaldesignofthispaperisframeduponbothpoliticalandlegaldesk-basedanalysis.The initial findingsof thisstudysuggestthat itwouldbeprudent fortheEUto invest intoa ‘masswithdrawalstrategy’thatconsidersalterativejudicialmeasuresforAfricanwithdrawalfromtheICC.Further,perceivedbiasofAfricanStatesbeingdisproportionalitytargetedbytheICCneedtobefullyaddressed. This paper is of timely relevance and therefore endeavors to offer some insights intosomeinnovativestrategiestohelpmoveforward.AinsleyoriginallyobtainedaBachelorofNursingin2000,thatsubsequentlyledtoherworkingasanurseinmanyhigh-riskconflictzonesthroughoutAfricaoverthepastfifteenyears.Itwasduringhertime working in these hostile environments that her passion to address impunity and criminalliabilityforvictimsofarmedconflictbegantoemerge.HavinglivedinSouthAfricaforseveralyearsworking on various NGO social justice projects in Johannesburg, Ainsley returned back to NewZealandtopursuefurtheracademicstudies.HavingnowobtainedherUndergraduateDegreeinPoliticalScienceattheUniversityofCanterbury,Ainsley has gone on to pursue aMaster of Laws (International Law and Politics). Ainsley has alsobeen the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards during her time at the University ofCanterburyandhopestousetheseplatformsto increasetheprofileofthe injusticemanyWomenfaceduringperiodsofArmedConflict.AinsleyKMcLeanUniversityofCanterburyainsley.mclean@pg.canterbury.ac.nzMCNAUGHTON,ANNETradeinlegalservices:anexplorationofthevaluesoftheOECD'sSTRIThispaperfocusesonasingleserviceindustry–legalservices–andexplorestheinsightsthatcanbegained from using the OECD’s new STRI. Using these new data to explore priority services trade

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issues in a known industry (legal services) allows a deeper understanding of the nuances of thedatabase and how it can best be used. The paper investigates the extent of integration in legalservicesandidentifiesareasoftraderestrictivenessandpossibleexplanationsforthese.Anne McNaughton is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Australian National University,Canberra andan Adjunct of the ANU Centre for European Studies where she was also DeputyDirector.AnneholdsaMasterofLawsfromEberhard-KarlsUniversityinTuebingen,Germany.Sheresearchesandteachesinthefieldsofprivateandcomparativelaw;thelawandpoliticsofEuropeanintegration;andthelegalarchitectureoftheEuropeanUnion.SheisaFellowoftheEuropeanLawInstituteandacorrespondingmemberofthePrinciplesofEuropeanInsuranceContractLaw(PEICL)andPrinciplesofReinsuranceContractLaw(PRICL).MsAnneMcNaughtonAustralianNationalUniversity,[email protected],JEFFREYBrexitandtheEUagriculturalandenvironmentalpolicynexusThe slow-motion train-crash that constitutes the current Brexit negotiations weaken calls for thewider EU’s demise, but it does not make the case for the EU. The EU’s agriculture-environmentpolicynexusmayseemat firstblushasurprisingarenaforpromotingtheEU.Brexitwas,afterall,supported by many British farmers, who were also significant beneficiaries of EU redistributiveagricultural policies. Indeed, EU agricultural policy has been lampooned for resulting buttermountains andmilk andwine lakes. However, following recent reforms EU agricultural paymentsthat still account for over half the EU budget are now used for regional support, especially indepopulatingmember-stateperipheries,and forenvironmental services.Environmental regulatorypolicyontheotherhandiswidelylaudedasasignificantEUpolicysuccessstorywithmember-statepolicyharmonisationresultinginraisedenvironmentalqualitylevels.Environmentalpolicycanalsobeseentobepartlycapturedby theagricultural sector,as the lattershape-shifts to redefineCAPsubsidies as payments for environmental services. Environmental policiesmay also serve as non-tariff barriers to agricultural imports into the EU, making them of no little concern to the EU’stradingpartners.Althoughdisruptive,Brexitmakesexplicitwhat theEUoffersby identifyingwhatcouldbelostbyBritishfarmingandwiderenvironmentalimpactsresultingfromtheexit.Thispaperaccordinglyscopesthisagricultural-environmentalpolicynexusthroughthelensofBrexittoidentifyimplicationsfortheEUandmoreimplicitlyitstradingpartners.DrMcNeill isa senior lecturer in theResourceandEnvironmentalPlanningProgrammeatMasseyUniversitywherehe coordinatesand teachesundergraduateandpostgraduate coursesonnaturalenvironmentalpolicyandplanning.Hehaspreviouslyworked inandwithall levelsofgovernmentandpoliticiansincludingtheEuropeanParliamentwhereasastagiairehedraftedanamendmenttotheEUDirectiveonFruitJams,JelliesandChestnutPuréesthatwhileofnogreatmomentprovideda

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very good insight into theworkings of the EuropeanUnion and helped the Austrian regional jamindustry.DrJeffreyMcNeillMasseyUniversity,[email protected],ANTONIALiftingtheLens:howAustralia'srelationshipwiththeEUwillbechangedbyBrexitAustralia’srelationshipwiththeEUhaslargelybeenviewedthroughthelensofitsrelationshipwiththeUKandtheUK’sstatusasamemberoftheEU.WithBrexit,AustraliaisgoingtohavetofindanewwayofengagingwiththeEUanditsMemberStates.Thispresentationwillconsidersomeofthefactorsthatwillhelporhinderthatnewview,oncetheUK lens has been lifted.It will look in particular at the role of the media in framing Australianperceptions of the EU.I will argue that monolingualism in the UK has contributed to a one-dimensional view in the UK media about the EU. With the overwhelming majority of AustralianEuropean correspondents based in London, Australianmedia is exposed to a narrow view of EUissues.TheywillhavetofindnewwaystolooktoAustralianinterestsintherelationshipwiththeEUastheUKandEUdiverge.Thispaperisco-authoredwithMelissaConleyTyler.AntoniaMochanistheMediaandCommunicationExpertoftheEU-AustraliaLeadershipForum.SheisaformerEUofficial,andspent6yearsattheEuropeanCommissionRepresentationtotheUK.ShehasaMastersfromtheUniversityofMelbourne.MsAntoniaMochanEU-AustraliaLeadershipForum,[email protected],HAZELUsingtheOECD’sServicesTradeRestrictivenessdatabase.TheOCED’sServicesTradeRestrictivenessdatabaseessentially takesa largenumberofqualitativeindicatorsof restrictions to the freecross-border saleof servicesand turns them intoanumericalindex, theServicesTradeRestrictiveness Index(STRI).Thispresentationexploresthenatureofthedatabase to highlight areas where the data are most useful and to indicate possible pitfalls and

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misusesofthedata.HazelMoir isanAdjunctAssociateProfessorat theANU’sCentre forEuropeanStudieswhereherworkfocusesonthe“intellectualproperty”dimensionsoftradeagreements,particularlytheissueofgeographical indexation. Hazel publishes on patent policy, geographical indications and variousotheraspectsof tradepolicy.Shehasmadeanumberofsubmissionstogovernmentenquiriesontheseissues.Heracademicbackgroundisineconomics(Cambridge)anddemography(Brown).Afterbrief stints in the private sector and in overseas aid, she spent 20 years in the Australian PublicServiceandfollowedthiswithasecondPhDinpublicpolicy.DrHazelMoirAustralianNationalUniversity,[email protected],DAVITILessAmbitiousStimulus:TrichotomousEuropeanisationProcessintheSouthCaucasusIntheearly2000s,thebeginningofthenewapproachofEuropeanpoliticsinthepost-Sovietspacewasbasedon thespeechof thepresidentofEuropeanCommission -RomanoProdi,precisely,hisstatementthatthe“accessionisnottheonlyonegameintown”(Prodi,2002).TheEuropeanUnionhascreatedtheframeworkofneighbourhoodpolicytowardstheSouthCaucasuswhichisinneedofrethinking. The Eastern Partnership Program has been the main instrument of EuropeanisationprocessintheregionthathasbeenfailingtomanagethedevelopmentsoftheSouthCaucasusinasystematic and decisive manner. As a result, the process of Europeanisation has divided intotrichotomous branching with all possible scenarios, while the “Golden Carrot” – accession – ismissingfromthepicture.Daviti Mtchedlishvili is a PhD candidate at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE),UniversityofCanterbury,NewZealand.HeearnedMAandBAdegreesinInternationalRelationsandPoliticsfromLithuania(VMU),theCzechRepublic(MU)andGeorgia(TSU).HehasworkedforCentrefor European Perspective in Slovenia and is an author of the book "Europeanisation Process inGeorgiaduringtheperiodfrom2003to2014".MrDavitiMtchedlishviliUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected]

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NGUYENTHITHUY,HANGEU-VietnamTradeRelationsandtheDrivingForcesbehindThemThe EU by far is seen as theworld’smost successful case ofmultilateralism. In its relationswithVietnam,theEUhasencouragedthe integrationofVietnam intheglobaleconomyandsupportedVietnam’seconomicreform.RecentdevelopmentsinVietnam’straderelationswiththeEUhaveagreat impactonVietnam’stradesector.ThetradeflowbetweenVietnamandtheEUcontinuestogrowandtheEUbecomesthe5th largestforeign investor inVietnam.TheEU-VietnamFreeTradeAgreementsignedin2015oncecomesintoforcewillfostertheEU-Vietnamtraderelations.Thishasraised an interesting question considering the key factors behind this fast growth. Usingdocumentaryandanalyticalapproach,thispaperidentifiesanumberofdeterminantsoftradeflowsbetweentheEUandVietnam.AsforVietnam,itsabundanceofnaturalresources,substantiallabourforce,andprioritytoopenitsmarketandintegrateintheworldeconomy,amongotherthingshavebeenkeyindeterminingitstradewiththeEU.AsfortheEU,ithasanabundanceofbothhumanandphysical capital. Also, the EU has sought to increasingly engagewith Asia. Importantly, the papermakessomepolicyrecommendationsfortheEUandVietnamtoexpandtheirtraderelations.Dr.Nguyen Thi ThuyHang is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of International Politics andDiplomacy,DiplomaticAcademyofVietnam.ShereceivedherdoctoraldegreefromRMITUniversityin2017.HermainresearchinterestsincludeEuropeanintegration,Vietnam-EUrelations,andtheUSrelationsinAsia-Pacific.Shecanbereachedatthuyhang032003@gmail.com.DrNguyenThiThuyHangDiplomaticAcademyofVietnamThuyhang032003@gmail.comNIKOLAIDIS,GEORGIOSArewereallyallinthistogether?TheUnion’sintegrationflawsreturnaftertheGFCThispaperwillfocusontheEurozoneandconstructitsargumentbybuildinguponscenarios2and5outlined in theWhite Paper discussing the Future of Europe. Thus, the suggestion is that for theUniontoreduceitdemocraticdeficiteithermember-statesagreetomoveforwardtoasystemthatwillresembleafederation,ormember-statesagreetoroll-backtheircooperationtothatofasinglemarketwithaconsequentconstraint for thesinglecurrency.The issueofdemocraticdeficitoftencomestomindwhenonediscussestheEuropeanUnionandtheEurozone.Indeed,mostsupportthefourbasicFreedomsestablishedbythecommonEuropeanmarketaswellasthecommoncurrency.Nevertheless,whetherthroughtheECJ’sjurisprudencetofavourfree-marketorwiththedoubleroleplayedbytheEuropeanCommissionasbothamemberoftheTROIKAaswellasthebodyentrustedwith safeguarding European law, the question of democratic deficit has return in the post-GFCEurope.Thispaper’sargumentisthatEurope’slegitimacyandraisond’etreisbeingchallengedalotmore from within, rather from outside forces such as recent election tampering by Russia. As a

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result,fortheUniontoweatherfuturestormscreatedbyfinancialcrisis,eitherthemonetaryunionwillhavetobeaccompaniedbyapoliticalone,ormember-statesshouldbegivenbacksomeofthecontroloftheirmonetarypolicywhichwilltakeintoaccountthedifferencesbetweenstates.MynameisGeorge.IwasbornandraisedinAthens,GreecewhereIfirstcameintocontactwiththeEuropeanreality.IwasamemberoftheEuropeanYouthParliamentsinceIwasinhighschoolandthat influenced my decision to study Political Sciences. After the turbulent post-GFC situation inGreece, I made the decision to move to Melbourne and study at Monash, where I managed tograduatewith adoublemajorB.A, inPolitics andEuropeanStudies. Later Imoved to anHonoursdegreeandnowIamaPhDCandidateandaTeachingAssociateatMonashMrGeorgiosNikolaidisMonashUniversity,[email protected]

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PARKER,RITAAEuropeancrisisofdemocracyorjusttestingtheboundaries?Thereisanongoingdebateabout‘acrisisofdemocracy’,andageneralthemeinthisdebateistheincreaseddistancebetweenvotersandpolitics.Yet,suchinstancesmaysimplybetangibleexamplesof‘democracyinaction’.ThegrowingevidenceofadisenchantedpublicwiththepoliticalclasseshascontributedtotheongoinguncertaintywithintheEuropeanUnion.Thisconfluenceofstresseshasled to increased protectionist and nationalist views that have been building across Europewheretensions between nation-states, within civil-societies, and among voters and political elites areevident.Thispaperwillexaminethefutureresilienceof theEuropean liberaldemocraticmodel. Itwilldrawonexamplesarisingfromsecurityandmigration issueswheretheSyriancrisisandotherglobal conflicts have generated unprecedented numbers of refugees and have nurtured terroristgroups thathave inspiredororganisedattacks,oftenon civilian targets. Thispaperwill use thesecasestoexaminethisformofgovernanceandexaminewhetherthereisacrisisofdemocracyintheEuropeanUnion,orwhetherEuropeanUnioncitizensarejusttestingtheboundariesofdemocracy.DrRitaParkerisMangeroftheAustralianCentreforArmedConflictandSocietyattheUniversityofNew SouthWales Canberra, and convenor of theNational Security Challenges and Policies in theIndo-PacificCourse.Herresearchareasfocusonglobaltransnationalsecurity issuesandresilience.Rita’s research has been published in peer reviewed journals and books in Australia, Germany,Singapore, and the United States. She is editor of Global Insecurity: Futures of Chaos andGovernance,publishedbyPalgraveMacmillanPublishingin2017,andRitaisaregularcolumnistforSecuritySolutionsmagazine.DrRitaParkerUniversityofNewSouthWales,[email protected],RICHARDB2BEU/AustraliaInvestmentRelationshipsAfeatureofinternationaleconomicrelationsinthetwenty-firstcenturyisincreasinglyfinelevelsofspecialization within global value chains (GVCs). The emergence of GVCs, or more commonlyregional value chains, has centred especially on Europe and East Asia, and has largely bypassedAustralia.ThispaperarguesthatanAustralia-EUFreeTradeAgreementpromotingdeepintegrationcould act as a catalyst for Australian participation in EU-centred value chains (and a possible linkbetweenEUandEastAsianGVCs),andthatthisshouldbeawin-winoutcome.In the past, distance and high trade costs deterred fine degrees of specialization in areas whereAustralia’scomparativeadvantagewaslesspronouncedthanwoolorcoalandminerals.Inmining,unlike cars, the biggest operators are not foreign–based transnationals; both BHP and RTZ have

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Australian roots. Where transport costs are less relevant, Australian entrepreneurs have createdglobalgiants inthemedia (MurdochandPacker)or inshoppingmalls (Westfield)or infrastructure(Macquarie).Inthetwenty-firstcentury,somesmallconsumer-goodscompanieshavesucceededingoingglobal(Billabong,RipCurl,Aesop),ashaveinternetcompanieslikeREA.Noneoftheseisinacomplex GVC, but they illustrate that in the twenty-first century the tyranny of distance is beingneutered by ICT innovations thatmake real-time communication cheap. The paper considers theroleofanAustralia-EUFTAfromtheperspectiveofGVCparticipation,infrastructureimprovementsandservicification.RichardPomfret isProfessorofEconomicsand JeanMonnetChaironEuropean Integrationat theUniversityofAdelaide.Previously,hewasProfessorofEconomicsattheJohnsHopkinsUniversity.HeservedasUnitedNationsadvisertothenewlyindependentCentralAsiancountriesin1993,andhasalsoworkedfortheWorldBank,UNDP,OECDandAsianDevelopmentBank.Hisoverahundredarticles and twenty books, include The Age of Equality: The twentieth century in economicperspective(HarvardUP,2011),TradeFacilitation(withPatriciaSourdin-EdwardElgar,2012),andInternationalTrade:Theory,EvidenceandPolicy(WorldScientific,2016).RichardPomfretTheUniversityofAdelaide,[email protected],DAVIDExternal‘threats’,internaldisruptions:TheChallengesofphysicalandrelational(im)mobilityinlightofforcedmigrationsandinterculturalcomplexitiesinEuropeandAustralia‘Voluntary’ and ‘forced’ migrations have pushed Europe towards new crisis points. Political,geographical and social borders are being controlled, sealed, andmade harder to penetrate thaneverbefore. Theat times ‘ugly’ confrontations, accusationsand fearmongeringbetween the ‘leftand the right’ raises questions around the value ofmulticultural and intercultural co-existence inincreasinglypluraldemocratic societies.Thehardedgesof theseborderingprocessesareasmuchabout internal, societal inter-relationalcrises, identitiesand (im)mobilities,as theyaboutwhoandhow physical mobility is governed. Host societies and new migrants reveal a continuum ofintegration challenges and responses that reflect diversity anddifference, conflict and conviviality(Glorius 2017; Gawlewicz 2016; Radford 2016; Neal et al 2013). I argue for the importance ofunderstandingthoseinhostandmigrantcommunitiesacrossthecontinuumof(dis)contentandthatpositive integration in plural democratic societies requires not a hardening of ‘relational borders’(‘relational (im)mobility’) but a willingness and resilience to move toward one other. In thispresentation Idrawoncomparative research intoEuropeanandAustralian ruralcommunitiesandrecentlyarrivedinternationalmigrants.DavidRadfordisaLecturer(Sociology)andWorkPackageleader,SuperdiversityandHumanRights,Hawke-EUCentreforMobilities,MigrationsandCulturalTransformationsattheUniversityofSouth

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Australia. David presently researches issues of interculturality, multiculturalism and migration inrural Australian/European communities. David’s publications include: ‘Everyday otherness:Intercultural refugee encounters and everyday multiculturalism in a rural South Australia town’(2016)JournalofEthnicandMigrationStudies;‘Space,place,andidentity:Interculturalencounters,affectandbelonginginruralAustralianspaces’(October2017)JournalofInterculturalStudies.DrDavidRadfordUniversityofSouthAustralia,[email protected],MURRAYReformofCivilLawandtheTransitionofSocialisminEasternEuropeandAsiaCivillawisthebodyoflegalprinciplesthatgovernsthehorizontalrelationshipsofcitizensinsociety.Most lawreformprojects instates intransition fromstatesocialismhavefocussedon“top-down”publiclawinstitutionsandgovernancerelationships,withemphasisonconstitutionalismandhumanrights. The civil law in contrast allowsprivate citizens to enforce legal protections themselves, inwaysthatarealsosupportiveofhumanrightsandruleoflaw.ThewidelydiffusedSovietmodelofsocialist civil law obstructed this “horizontal law enforcement” mechanism, calling for reformprograms specifically targeted to the issue. The larger project behind this paper draws on theexperiencesofformerlysocialistEasternEuropeancountries,andnowmembersoftheEU,thatarewelladvancedintransitionallawreformforthebenefitoflegalsystemsthatareatearlierpointsonthis path, mainly in the Asian region, such as Laos and Vietnam. For most of the EU countriesinvolved,manyunresolvedissuesremaininthisarea.ProfessorRaffhasworkedinthefieldsofPropertyLawandEnvironmental&PlanningLawformanyyears. His 1989 article on Law and the Greenhouse Effect2 was one of the first legal paperspublishedanywhereonthistopic.Until2011ProfessorRaffwastheDeanoftheFacultyofLawatUniversityofCanberra [UC], inAustralia’snationalcapitalcity.HehadcommencedasHeadof theSchoolofLawatUCinJune2006.BeforetakinguphisChairintheCanberraLawSchool,ProfessorRaffhadbeenHeadofanewLawSchoolatVictoriaUniversityfrom2003.Hehadhelpedtoestablishthat Law School from 2001. From 1992-2000 he lectured in the Law School at University ofMelbourne, initiating the firstundergraduateunit inEnvironmental&Planning Law taught in thatlaw school andworking actively to establish thatUniversity’s EnvironmentalManagement System(ISO 14000 accredited) and its University-wide multi-disciplinary graduate sustainability studiesprogram.ProfessorRaffhaspublishedmainlyinhiskeyfieldsofacademicendeavour,PropertyLawandEnvironmental&PlanningLaw,usuallyemployingcomparativeperspectives.ProfessorMurrayRaffUniversityofCanberraMurray.raff@canberra.edu.au

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SABHARWAL,PRASHANTConstitutionalMoment-HowtorefoundtheEuropeanUnionTheproposedpaperwillpositthatmanyoftheEuropeanUnion’scurrentproblemscannolongerbefixedbyrecoursetothecurrentTreatystructure,which isessentiallyapatchworkofcompromisesnolongerfitforthedemandsofa21stcenturysociety.TheUnioniscaughtinapermanentconflictbetweentheexpresseddesireofsomecountriestodeepentheUnion’spurpose,competencesandobjectives,andthewidespreadpopularrejectionofanythingresemblingfederation.TakingboththeWhite Paper presentedby the EuropeanCommission, aswell as a historical analysis of successfulfederations as a starting point, the paper to be presented to the conference will argue that theEuropeanUnionneedstotakeaccountofthescepticismofamajorityofEuropeans–nottowardstheideaofEuropeorthedesireforcooperation,buttowardsafurtherextensionofUnionpowerswithout their direct consent. Instead of the false “Federation vs Confederation” dichotomy, thispaper will assert a third option: a re-foundation of the European Union with one constitutionaldocument,featuringastreamliningofitsinstitutionsandanexciting,refocusedvisionofitsfuture.Itwillpresentaproposalforboththeprocess,thecontentandtheobjectivesforanewconstitutionalsettlementfortheEuropeanUnion–asettlementthatwillbesuitableforthenewchallengesposedby theneweradominatedby issues likeclimatechange,cross-bordercrimeand financialmarketsvolatility,whilstreconcilingitwiththelegitimatedesiresforaneffectiveroleforEUMemberStatesand the retentionof their core sovereignty. Finally, ideasof shared sovereigntyandconstitutionalrenewalwillplaycentralrolesinthepaper.Born to Indianparents inGermany andhavingbeeneducated across Europe, I’m currently a PhDResearcherinComparativeandEuropeanConstitutionalLawatMaastrichtUniversityscheduledforcompletionin2019,I'mwritingadoctoralthesisontherecentreceptionofEUlawprimacybytheconstitutionalcourtsofEUmemberstates.Inrecentyears,IhavebeenaProtocolAssistant/Stagiaireat theEuropeanCourtof Justiceandhaveclerkedwith theUK judgeat the InternationalCriminalCourt,duringitsfirst-everwarcrimestrial.SpeakEnglish,German,FrenchandHindifluently.MrPrashantSabharwalMaastrichtUniversity,[email protected],KRZYSZTOFEuropeanPoliticsandtheneo-liberalparadigmThispaperlooksattheEuropeanintegrationprojectinitscurrentiterationdrawingonKarlPlonayi’sassertionthatmarketsareinseparablefromthesocio-culturalcontext.Inthisregard,allattemptstoliberalizetheeconomy(notexcludingEuropean integrationthat isbasedontheprincipleofsinglemarket)barepracticalandindeedtangiblepoliticalramifications.Themainhypothesisofthepaperrests on the recognition of the fact that the neoliberal agenda is a defining feature of European

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integration.Itisafterall,theprojectofthesinglemarketwithitsfreemovementofgoods,services,capital and labor that undercuts European Union integrative practice. Secondly, it is thepresuppositionoftheauthorofthispaper,thatthereiscertaindegreeofcongruencebetweentheeconomic elites, operating within the neoliberal framework and centre-left political elites. Theargument here is that the logics of neoliberalism has been fundamentally accepted across themainstreamof thepolitical spectrum.This consequentlymeans thateven left-wingpartieshad torepositionthemselvesboth ideologicallyandpractically,whichbringstheauthortotheconclusionthatthemarkethaslostitsroleasthebasicideologicaldifferentiatorbetweenthetraditionalrightandleft.Dr.KrzysztofŚLIWIŃSKI(PhDUniversityofWarsaw)isanAssociateProfessorattheDepartmentofGovernmentandInternationalStudiesofHongKongBaptistUniversity.HeholdsregularlecturesonEuropean Integration, Security Studies, International Relations and Political Science. His majorresearch interests include: security studies (non-traditional security issues), foreign and securitypolicy of United Kingdom, foreign and security policy of Poland, European foreign and securitypolicy. His most recent publications include: Śliwiński, K. (2016). Moving Beyond the EuropeanUnion'sWeaknessasaCyber-securityAgent,ContemporarySecurityPolicy,2014,35,3,InSmith,M.A. (ed.) European Security. Critical Concepts inMilitary, Strategic and Security Studies, (468–86).Routledge.DrKrzysztofSliwinskiHongKongBaptistUniversity,[email protected],RUSSELLRightsatrisk?TheimpactofBrexitin(re)defininghumanrightsintheEUBrexitresultedfromanoutpouringofpopulisminmanyEUstatesandisthegreatestthreat,todate,totheEU’slegalconstitutionalapproachtohumanrightsprotection.ThepathtoBrexitwaspavednotonlywithanti-immigrationhysteriabut,more seriously,with theunderminingofengagementwith the EU by some British media and successive governments prepared to argue that EU lawsupporting rights were ‘foreign influences’ upon UK’s political sovereignty. It took on a parochialflavourbutisnotaparticularlyBritishphenomenon.Todate,thefocusonBrexithasbeenupontheimplicationsfortheUK’sownhumanrightsframeworkandespeciallyforthecontinuedprotectionof particular residence rights. This paper looks at the other side of the negotiating table andexamines thepoliticalchallengethatBrexitpresents for theEU’shumanrights frameworkand forparticular rights. The EU’s legal constitutional approach to rights protection is an integral part,historically and politically, of both what the EU is and how it presents itself. The EuropeanCommission’s recent White Paper on the Future of Europe sees human dignity, freedom anddemocracyascorevaluesand indeed, theEUsees itselfbasedontheruleof lawand its roleasapromoter,andperhapsevenanentrepreneur,ofrights.A‘hard’Brexit,movingtheUKoutsidethesingle market as it seeks to reclaim political sovereignty, represents both direct and indirectchallengestothisEUroleanditsnormativeconstitution.SeekingtoinstitutionallydelinkUKhuman

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rights law and policy from the EU, an economically challenged UK outside the EU might alsoindirectlybecomeapoleofoppositiontotheEU’srightsregimeifhumanrightsareunderminedtosecuremarketaccesselsewhere.NegotiatingaroundrightscanbeexpectedtobecriticalfortheEU.Russell Solomon teaches in the Global Urban and Social Studies School at RMIT University,Melbourne.HiscurrentresearchinterestsfocusuponlegalandpolicyissuesrelatingtocomparativebillsofrightsandoneconomicandsocialrightsinAustraliaandglobally.HehasalsobeenworkingonaprojectonBrexitanditsimplicationsfortheUK’shumanrightsandrecentlypresentedonthisataninternationalconference.DrRussellSolomonRMIT,[email protected],DANIELTrumpandUS-EUrelations:atimeofstrategicuncertaintyThe arrival of Donald Trump has brought into question the credibility of the United States’commitmenttothetrans-Atlanticsecurityalliance.Since1945theUnitedStates,withNATO,beencentral to Europe’s defence andwider regional stability. This paperwill examine how Trump hasimpactedUS-EUrelationsinthestrategicrealmsincetakingofficeinJanuary2017.Trumpissuesaseeminglyendlessstreamofmixed,confusingandcontradictorymessages.Whattheyadduptoandwhat itmeans for the EuropeanUnion is not yet clear. The objectives ofUS foreign policy underTrump remain largely unknown and give rise to many questions. Is Trump undermining thecredibilityofUS relationswithEurope inhisquest to“MakeAmericaGreatAgain”?HowhaveEUleaders reacted?Will theEUbe forced to takemore responsibility for its strategic security?Whatdoes this mean for NATO? In a period of rapid change in the international order answers thesequestions,amongmany,mustbeaddressed.TheliberalinstitutionsbuilttheUnitedStatesandtheAllies in 1944, which have allowed Europe to prosper, are under threat. Increasingly assertiverevisionistpowersappeartobetakingadvantageofadistractedUnitedStates.Non-stateactorsarehavinganunprecedentedimpact.ThreatstotheEuropeanUnionemanatefromthesouthandtheeast.ConsequentlytheEuropeanUnionfacesastrategicuncertaintynotseensinceWorldWarTwo.HowitwillchoosetoproceedhingesverymuchontheTrumppresidency.DanielSteedman isaCouncilMemberat theAustralia Instituteof InternationalAffairsandsitsontheCommitteeattheContemporaryEuropeanStudiesAssociationofAustralia.Heisamemberofthe Australian Political Studies Association. Daniel is preparing to undertake a PhD examining USforeignpolicyandnuclearweaponsintheReaganera.HisresearchinterestsincludeUSforeignandstrategicpolicy,greatpowerrelationsandthetrans-Atlanticrelationship.HehasaBachelorofArts(Honours)fromMonashUniversityandaBachelorofArtsfromUSQ.MrDanielSteedmandaniel@dasteed.com.au

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STIVAS,DIONYSIOSRefugeeCrisisEffectsonthe‘FutureofEurope’:AnImpedimenttoEuropeanIntegrationFor the time being, the European Union is going through an unprecedented refugee crisis. As aconsequenceofthiscrisis,thepitfallsoftheEUmigrationandasylumpoliciesarerevealed.Lackofsolidarity,unwillingness to share theburdenof refugees’ allocationproportionallyandabsenceofmutual understanding characterize the manner by which the EU member states approach therefugee crisis. This diversity of perspectives divides the EUmember states into different groups:those receiving anenormousnumberof refugeesdue to their peculiar geographic location, thosewillingtoprovidesheltertoasylumseekers,andthoserefusingtoacceptrefugeesontheirsoil.ThelackofmutualunderstandingandburdensharingempowerstherhetoricofthosewhoadvocatenofutureintheprocessofEuropeanUnionintegration.Inspiredbythesepremises,thispaperassessestheextenttowhichthediverseapproachestotherefugeecrisisbytheEUmemberstatesconstituteanimpedimenttothefutureoftheEuropeanUnion.Thispaper’sanalysisisconstructedaroundtwohypotheses:(1)theformationofdifferentgroupsofmemberstateswithregardtotherefugeecrisisisanimpedimentthatmaycausegraveconsequencestotheprojectofEuropeanintegration;(2)thediverseattitudestotherefugeecrisisareacommonphenomenonanddoesnotaffecttheprocessofEuropean integration.To test thesehypotheses, thispaperexamines ifandhowthe refugeecrisistriggeredBrexit,whether itwouldbepossible to achieve consensuson refugee relocation amongthedividedintogroupsEUmemberstatesandtheroleoftheCourtofJusticeoftheEUonclarifyingthesolidarityprincipleandpromotingEuropeanintegration.Currently,aPh.D.studentattheGovernmentandInternationalStudies’DepartmentofHongKongBaptist University, Dionysios Stivas holds anM.A. in European Union International Relations andDiplomacyfromtheCollegeofEurope,anLL.M.inEuropeanLawfromMaastrichtUniversity,andanLL.B.inInternationalLawfromtheUniversityofTheHague.BeforecommencinghisPh.D.studiesheworked as a legal consultant for the OECD in Paris and offered his services to the Media andCommunicationsDepartmentof theCourtof Justiceof theEuropeanUnion.Hisresearch interestsfocus on the European Union and include security, securitization, migration, and Europeanintegration.MrDionysiosStivasHongKongBaptistUniversity,[email protected],GABRIELERegionalisationinandwiththeEU:Acost-benefitanalysisfortheHigherEducationsectorRegionalisation is dominated by the increasing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs)worldwide, most of them in the form of free trade arrangements. The EU represents the mostintegratedformandstateofeconomicintegrationbetweensovereigncountries,anditsnetworkof

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FTAs across the world is highly sophisticated. In Higher Education, this integration has shapedpolicies and initiatives from ERASMUS and JeanMonnet to the Bologna process; much of this isbeingstudiesbynon-EUprovidersandgovernmentsforopportunitytotapinto.Marketintegrationthrough FTAs strengthens the crucial engagementof universitieswith internationalmarkets, for avarietyofpurposesfromrankingtorevenueandfrominnovationtofund-raising.Amongst impacts,FTAshavethepotential to lowerthecostsofstudyingandworkingabroad,andhence,mobilityof students, staff andacademics, andhence theall-important studentand facultyexperience. FTAs also alter access to research collaborations and income, grants eligibility andhence,jointpublicationsandinitiativesonbi-ormulti-partnerlevel.This presentation will discuss the disruptive nature of BREXIT yet the valence and continuingmomentumofregionalisation,withitsobjectiveofgrantingreciprocalfavourableconditionsoftradeand investment. It is a matter impacting us on very many level, ranging from impartiality, orattracting talentsmore easily, to conditions facilitating investments in transnational education, orphysicalandvirtualinfrastructures.FTAshavebecomeincreasinglycomprehensiveinnaturewithinthe EU and with third countries. The Australian perspective on scale and scope potentialitiesprovidesworthwhile insights for strategic direction, especially seen fromoneof itsmost dynamicsectors. InHigher Education, FTAs impactsdirectlyon futurebusiness contexts andopportunities.Theymay influence investment decisions in foreign activities in some formof internationalisation(fromagents toalliances toowncampusdevelopmentsandmore), the locationormarketchoice,andthetimingofinvestmentsmadeathomeandabroad.Gabriele is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School and the Faculty of Business andeconomics of The University of Melbourne. She has broad and in-depth experience at businessschools and universities internationally. She holds a MPhil in Governmental Studies, a PhD inManagement(UK)andbecamefullProfessor in2004,andJeanMonnetChairProfessor in2011atSKEMABusinessSchool.Hercareerspansprogramdevelopmentacademicanduniversityleadershipintertiaryeducation,principallyacrossEurope, theUSAandAustralia.Shehasworkexperience in20+ countries within international business academics, espially in Asia Pacific. Her discipline isInternationalBusiness,witha focusof InternationalTrade& Investmentstrategy,aswellascross-cultural communication. Gabriele’s research focuses on international Business Management andStrategy,withafocusonInternationalizationknowledgeandRegionalisation,marketintegrationandinstitutional theory. She serves as external research fellow at JETRO (Japan), as expert at theEuropeanUnion (EACEA), isprojectassessorat theAustralianResearchCouncil andhas servedasWorld Investment Report expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development(UNCTAD).ProfGabrieleSuderUniversityofMelbourneDepartmentofBusinessAdministrationg.suder@mbs.edu

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SWINBANK,ALANBrexit, Ireland and the WTO: Possible Policy Options for a Future UK-Australia Agri-food TradeAgreementPriortotheUnitedKingdom’saccessiontothethenEuropeanEconomicCommunity(EEC),in1973,Australia was a significant supplier of Britain’s food. Membership of the EU resulted in tradediversion, closing the British market to Australian sugar for example. This paper will questionwhether the UK’s secession from the EU (Brexit) might usher in a new agri-food trade regime,restoring Australian farmers’ access to the British market, or whether other opposing politicaleconomy considerations might prevail. Can a comprehensive Free Trade Area (FTA) agreementbetween Australia and the UK, that includes agri-food products, be negotiated? Any newrelationshipwillneedtoreflecttheUKGovernment’sstatedpreferenceforafrictionlessborderwithEU27(particularlyonthe islandof Ireland), theWTOrule-book,andthe interestsoftheUK’s farmand environmental lobbies, aswell as theUK’s quest for ‘free’ tradewith thewider internationalcommunity.AlanSwinbankisanEmeritusProfessorofAgriculturalEconomicsattheUniversityofReading(intheUK) and (September/October 2017) a visiting fellow in the Centre for European Studies at theAustralianNationalUniversity (ANU), Canberra. His research has focussed on the farm, food, andbiofuel policies of the European Union (EU) and their interaction with the process of tradeliberalisationthroughtheWorldTradeOrganization(WTO).HiscurrentresearchcentresontheUK’sfutureagri-foodtradepolicyoptionsfollowingsecession(Brexit)fromtheEuropeanUnion(EU).ProfAlanSwinbankUniversityofReading,[email protected],TASMIHAAccordandReady-madeGarmentsinBangladesh:ThenewphaseofParticipationGovernance in Ready-made Garment (RMG) industry plays a major role in its dynamism andproduction. After Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, different global stakeholders have beenplaying key roles in the assessment and inspection of fire and building safety in Bangladesh. TheAccordonFireandBuildingSafetyinBangladesh(theAccord)backedbytheEuropeanUnionisoneofthem.AccordnotonlytrainstheemployeesintheRMGindustriesinBangladeshthroughcapacitybuildingbutitalsoenhancesgovernance.OneoftheaimsofAccordistoensureparticipationfromdifferent safety committees thatworksalignedwithWorkersparticipation committee in theRMGsector.Themainobjectivesofthesecommitteesaretoensureaconsultativeapproachamongtheemployeesandengagetheminthedecisionmakingprocess.ThereforethisstudyintendstoassesstheroleofAccord inensuringgovernancethroughemployeesparticipation inthedecisionmakingprocessinBangladesh.14RMGmanagersfromdifferentfactoriesinBangladeshwereinterviewed.

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Thequalitativedatasuggestadoptingvariousmechanismstoimprovethestakeholder’sinvolvementincludingemployeesintheRMGindustry.TheinsightsthatareprovidedbytheRMGmanagersareessential for next step of the project. This study reveals several important aspects of governancemechanismthatareprevailing inthe industry.Thefindingsof thisstudysuggestthateducationortraining isverypertinentforbuildingawarenessamongtheemployeesas it isalsooneofthevitalways to lessen thegapbetween themanagerandemployee in theorganisationand thusmake itmoresustainableinthelongrunforhavingcommittedandsatisfiedworkforce.TasmihaTarafderiscurrentlyundertakingPhDinManagementatRMITUniversity,Melbourne.Shehad obtained her Master by Research from University of Canberra. She received the Best paperaward2013andtheHighlyCommendedAward2012fromtheANZSRAIconferences.Shepresentedpaperatthe21stBiennialASAAconference(CAT:A)attheAustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra.ShepublishedaresearchpaperintheAustralasianJournalofRegionalStudies,andabook,aswell.Her research interest includes well-being, governance, high performance work system andqualitativedataanalysis.This paper is co-authored with Associate Professor Sharif As-Saber, Professor Bruce Wilson, DrWahedWaheduzzaman.MsTasmihaTarafderRMIT,[email protected],ALEXANDERNationalisminHungary:PastpresentandfutureAlexander’s research objective is to bring further depth to the existing studies of nationalism inHungary and Poland from a historical background. The themes of sovereignty and patriotism arestrong in Polish and Hungarian nationalism which presents a new area to assist ongoing studiestowardsnationalism.Alexander’sresearchaimstoanalysetheidiographicnatureofeventssuchasthe Hungarian uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity movement of the 1980’s. The researchincludes analysis of present day immigration policy and refugee quotas to examine the effects ofhistoricalsentimentsinamoderncontext.HisresearchisconductedthroughtheNationalcentreofresearchonEuropeandissupervisedthroughDrMilenkoPetrovicandDrSerenaKelly.Alexander Tardi-Zuch is aMasters student in European Studies. His research at the NCRE coversnationalisminPolandandHungaryandthelinktohistoricaleventsprior.HispurposeandintentionofresearchistoaddnewdepthtostudiesonPolish/Hungariannationalismandlookatit'srisefromadifferentangle.MrAlexanderTardi-ZuchUniversityofCanterbury,[email protected]

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THANGAVELU,SHANDREHarnessingGlobalisationtobuildabetterworldforthebenefitofall.ThissessionexploreshowFreeTradeAgreementsbetweentheEuropeanUnionandAustraliaandNew Zealand can contribute to more innovative and competitive economies in both Europe andAustralasia. TheEuropeanCommissionpaper “HarnessingGlobalisation” releasedalongwith the“Future of Europe”White Paper, calls for trade agreements to openmarkets and enforce a levelplaying field. It calls for commercial diplomacy to help write the global rules book so thatcompanies can prosper. It calls for better regulation - for a simple and smart regulatoryenvironment. Globally, a new generation of Free Trade Agreements is focusing increasingly onregulatorycoherenceandcooperation.Thekeynoteaddressandsubsequentpaneldiscussthewayforward.Associate Professor Shandre Thangavelu is Regional Director, Southeast Asia at Centre forInternational Economic Studies, Institute for International Trade, The University of Adelaide.AssociateProfessorThangavelu isanactiveresearcheronhumancapitaldevelopment, technologytransfer, foreigndirect investment, trade, government infrastructure investment, productivity andeconomicgrowth.Hehaswrittenextensively intechnologytransferandeconomicgrowthandhaspublishedhisresearch inmajor international journals.Hehasalsoworkedonseveral internationalprojects commissioned by UNDP, World Bank, ASEAN Secretariat, APEC, and Asian ProductivityOrganization(APO).ProfShandreThangaveluUniversityofAdelaide,[email protected]

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UPADHYAY,DINOJKIndia-EURelations:RegionalDynamicsandProspectiveOrientationIndia and the EU have witnessed continuity and change in their relationship. Both sharecomprehensive political, economic and cultural relations, and despite a relative decline, the EUremains amajor economic partner of India. Their relationship has been elevated to the strategicpartnership level. However,more than a decade old strategic partnership is yet to realize its fullpotential. Current political andeconomic tendencies in Europehave thepotential to considerablyinfluenceIndia-EUrelations.AstheEUfacesmultipleinternalchallengesandthedecisionsattheEUlevel becomemore complicated, India’s interactions with European countries would grow at thebilateral level.USPresidentDonaldTrump’sapproachhascreatedasenseofanxiety in theTrans-Atlantic partnership and EU member-states are exploring possibilities of a common ground inrelationshipwith theUS.Germanyhas called for a greater role for Europe in global affairs in thefuture.GermanChancellorMerkelappearstotakeEuropeanreformsforwardwiththenewFrenchPresidentandenhancetheroleofEuropeanUnioninglobalaffairs.Europeancountrieshaveshowngreat interest in India’s domestic economic reforms, business opportunities and infrastructuredevelopmentprogrammesandIndiaisalsokeentoexpandEuropeaneconomiclinkagesandevolvegreater policy synergies in dealing with global challenges. In this broader context, the paperdiscusses unfolding political and strategic developments in Europe, and analyzes recent trends inIndia-EU relations. It alsoattempts tounderstandhow Indiaand theEUwouldview the futureoftheirstrategicpartnershipinthecontemporaryworldorder.Dinoj Kumar Upadhyay is Research Analyst at Integrated Research and Action for Development(IRADe),NewDelhi.HehasaPhDinInternationalRelationsfromJawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi.DrDinojKumarUpadhyayIndianCouncilofWorldAffairs,[email protected],JORGENofuturefortheEurozonewithoutfar-reachingchangesinitseconomicgovernanceTheeconomiccrisisthatbeganin2017havehadstrongconsequencesonsomeEuropeancountries:losses of income, increases in the unemployment rate, more inequality and social unrest, and aremarkabledeteriorationoftheWelfareState institutionsthathavetraditionallycharacterizedthe“Europeansocialmodel”.FocusingontheEurozone,thecrisisanditsconsequencesaretheresultofa complex mix of causes, but one of them is that the economic policy architecture and theinstitutional framework of the Eurozone display significant limitations. This deficiencies (1)

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contributedtotheaccumulationofsomeimbalancesthatareattheoriginofthecrisis–forexample,current account deficits and surpluses, or the increase in private debt in some countries- and (2)encouraged theapplicationof somemeasures that aggravated theeconomic and social effectsofthecrisis.Forexample,theemphasisputbytheEuropeanauthoritiesonwagedevaluationandfiscalausterity–twomeasuresactuallyembeddedintheEuroPlusPactorintheFiscalCompact-triggeredasecondrecession inthe“peripheral”countriesof theEurozone.Therefore,an increasingdistrustontheEuropeaninstitutionshasemergedinmanycountries,especiallythosemorehitbythecrisisand the economic policies put in practice, where the complaints of lack of democracy andtransparency are frequent. Although the Eurozone is emerging from the crisis, its economicgovernance architecture remains incomplete and based on the same principles. This leaves theEurozone vulnerable to subdued economic performance and cross-country divergence. If theEurozoneistodeliveronitspromiseofgreaterprosperityandtoavoidcallingintoquestiontheveryexistence of the common currency, far-reaching changes in the economic governance of theEurozoneareneeded,includingsomefundamentalaspectsoftheEuropeantreaties.Thispaperwilldevelopsomeoftheseproposalsofchange.JorgeUxóhasaPhDineconomics(ComplutenseUniversityofMadrid)andisAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofCastilla-LaMancha (Spain).Hismain research interests areMacroeconomics andEconomicPolicyintheEU,andPostKeynesianEconomics.Hehaspublishedarticlesonthecrisisinacademic journals, especially about the reform of the economic governance, the possibility ofapplyingalternativefiscalpolicies intheEMU,theroleplayedbytheECBortheeffectsof internaldevaluationonSpain.HehaseditedthebookentitledPost-Keynesianviewsoftheeconomiccrisisanditsremediesandheisco-authorofFracturasycrisisenEuropa.DrJorgeUxoUniversityofCastilla,[email protected],BENUnintendedConsequences:NationalismandEuropeanIntegrationThis paper examines the future of European integration and disintegration by examining therelationshipbetweennationalismandtheconstructionofEuropeanunitysincetheendoftheFirstWorldWartothepresentday. ItengageswiththeEU’s‘Nobelnarrative’andsuggeststhatratherthan being a means to overcome destructive conflict and fissiparous nationalism, Europeanintegration has been driven by conflict – often external to the European Communities – andgeneratedratherthansupersedednationalism,particularlyafterMaastricht.TosubstantiatesuchaclaimthispaperdrawsonevidencefromwithinandbeyondEuropeitself.ItexaminestheeffectsofnationalistmovementsoutsideofEuropeonthedriveforEuropeanunityaswell as the impact of actors and structures promoting European unity from beyond Europe’sborders.ByexaminingtherelationshipbetweenEuropeanintegrationandnationalismsincetheend

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oftheFirstWorldWarthroughthelensofconstructivism,thispaperoffersanalternativereadingofthis relationship thanthatofferedby the ‘Nobelnarrative’. It suggests thatdifferentnationalismswilldriveintegrationanddisintegrationincontemporaryEurope,leadingtothegreatestunintendedconsequencesofthemall:thattheEUwilldevelopanationalismofitsown.BenWellings isSeniorLecturer inPoliticsand InternationalRelationsatMonashUniversity. His iscurrently researching the relationship between nationalism, Euroscepticism and the Anglosphereand the relationship between nationalism and European integration. He is the author of EnglishNationalism and Euroscepticism: losing the peace (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012). He has co-authored‘EuroscepticismandtheAnglosphere:traditionsanddilemmasincontemporaryEnglishnationalism’,Journal of Common Market Studies, 53, 1, 2015: 123-39 (with Helen Baxendale); 'Populism andSovereignty: the EU Act and the In-Out Referendum, 2010-15', Parliamentary Affairs, 2015, (withEmmaVines);and'Euro-myth:nationalism,warandthelegitimacyoftheEuropeanUnion',NationalIdentities,2015(withBenPower).DrBenWellingsMonashUniversity,[email protected],KASIAMemoryandpopulismacrossEasternEuropeanbordersThis paper examines connections between Europeanmemory andpolitics, and asks howmemorymatters beyond social and culturalmanifestations, driving awedge into the commonagreementsand visions. Although imperative for EU integration, WWII memories have become increasinglydivisiveinthefaceofrecentchallengesEuropehasfaced,particularlywhenusedbypoliticalagentsto satisfy their populist aspirations. This is visible across thewhole of Europe,where anti-foreignsentimentsareoftenenergizedbyandfuelreengagementwiththepast,andparticularlyprominentintheCEEcountriesthathadasignificantdelayinworkingontheirpastsand(re)constructingtheiridentities.ReinforcingRNLebow’sobservationthat“thepoliticsofmemorywillbeasalientfeatureof theEuropean landscape formanydecades tocome”, thispaper looksata small sectionof thislandscape, investigating howmemorymatters in Germany and across Eastern European borders,particularlyinPoland,theBalticStatesandUkraine.IamAcademicCoordinatorat theCentre forEuropeanStudies,AustralianNationalUniversity.Myresearch focuses on the issues of migration, memory and displacement in cross-cultural andtransnationalcontext.Recently,IhaveworkedonseveralprojectsexaminingEuropeanmemoriesinAustralia,focusingparticularlyonlifenarrativesofEasternEuropeanmigrants.DrKasiaWilliamsAustralianNationalUniversity,[email protected]

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WILSON,BRUCEDevelopingRegionalInnovationSystemsinEuropeandAustralia:GovernanceandEngagement:TheimplementationofthesmartspecialisationprocesswithintheframeworkofEURegionalPolicyhasdrawnattentionfromtheoutsettotheimportanceofcredibleandeffectivegovernance.ThisisaddressedasakeystepintheGuidetoResearchandInnovationStrategiesforSmartSpecialisation(RIS). The Guide is specific about the characteristics of governance that should be addressed inimplementingasmartspecialisationprocess,goingbeyondexistingplace-basedarrangements.NotwithstandingthediversityacrossEurope,theregionsrecognisedforthepurposeofdevelopingsmart specialisation strategiesmeans that typically, EU regionshavebothan identity and scaleofpopulation and industrial activity that points to the appropriate governance framework for theintroductionofasmartspecialisationinitiative.Theseconditionscannotbeassumedsoreadily in theAustraliancontext,not leastbecauseof theconcentration of so much of the population in a relatively small number of coastal cities.Furthermore, thehistorically fragmented characterof regionalpolicieshas led to confusionaboutregional identity and tomultiplicity of regional authorities,well beyond the formal framework offederal,stateandlocalgovernments.Thispaperwillreviewissuesrelatedtoregional identityandgovernanceinAustralia inthelightoftheEU’sapproachtogovernanceofsmartspecialisation. Inparticular, itwill consider thekindsofregionalauthoritiesthatcouldassumetheresponsibilityforgovernanceofsmartspecialisation,andthekindoftermsofreferenceandresourcesthatwouldbehelpful.Professor BruceWilson is Director of the European Union Centre at RMIT University. He leads amajor research program on comparative regional policy in Europe, Australia and Asia, looking atinterventions to promote innovative economic development and human capability that improvesthelivingandworkingconditionsofpeopleinmetropolitanandruralcity-regions.Hehashadlongexperience in working with all levels of government on organisational and social change, and iscommitted to linking researchers and policymakerswith city and regional governments in policyformationrelatedtosocialandeconomicpolicy, innovation, lifelong learningandenvironment.HewasafoundingCo-DirectorofPascalInternationalObservatory.ProfBruceWilsonRMIT,[email protected],EDWARDBeyondbilateraldisputes?EU-AustraliarelationsintheageofBrexitThe signingof theFrameworkAgreement in2016and theopeningof free tradeagreement (FTA)negotiations in 2017 indicates the unparalleled level of cooperation between Australia and theEuropeanUnion (EU). Thesedevelopments,while significant,haveoccurred in thecontextof the

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resultoftheJune2016referendumwhentheUKvotedto leavetheEU. TheunfoldingprocessofBrexit is likely to attract significant attention and could be a distraction from closer EU-Australiabilateralcooperation.ThroughanalysingthelikelyimpactofBrexitthispaperwillexaminetheroleof theUKhistoricallyasakey factor inEU-Australia relations. Itargues that theUKhasbeen theprimarymeansthroughwhichAustraliahassoughttodevelopanunderstandingoftheEU.ThishashadaclearimpactinthemannerinwhichtheEUisperceivedandthewayAustraliashouldengagewithitasaninternationalactor.Inrecentdecades,however,thistrendhasbecomelessdiscernibleastheEUhasbecomemoreofacoherentactorinternationally,particularlyduetotheestablishmentof the singlemarketand the implementationof theEuro. Comingafter thesedevelopmentshasbeen the completionof a successionofmajor bilateral agreements, such as the2008PartnershipFramework andmore recently the Framework Agreement. Brexit therefore acts as an importantmeansbywhichtoassesswhetherrelationshavematuredtotheextentthatanevent,evenoneasdisruptiveasBrexit,maynotdetractfromcloserEU-Australiabilateralcooperation.EdwardYenckenisaPhDCandidateintheSchoolofSocialandPoliticalSciencesatTheUniversityofMelbourne. HiscurrentPhDanalysesrelationsbetweenAustraliaandtheEU. ItarguesthatoverthepasttwodecadesAustraliahasincreasinglyprioritisedrelationswiththeEUduetotheextentofshared interests in areas such as trade, security, development assistance, education, science andtechnology.MrEdwardYenckenTheUniversityofMelbourne,[email protected]

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Co-Presentedand–AuthoredPapers

MEZYK,ROBERT&MEZYK,NINATheRuleofLawprocedure,innerpoliticsandsocialattitudes:DiscourseanalysisontheexampleofPolandThe Rule of Law procedure is a confrontational process in which European Union attempts tocontravene undesired legal or political changes in the member states. The ongoing procedureagainst Poland presents the first practical use of the procedure and simultaneously highlights itsbiggestweakness – the confrontational natureof thediscourse implemented inorder to rectify aproblematicpoliticalchoiceofamemberstate.Inthewakeoftheupcomingenlargement,theTreatyofAmsterdam(1997)introducedtheconceptof“basicvalues”whichweretobeprotectedbytheCommunity,suchas“respectforhumandignity,freedom,democracy,equality,theruleof lawandrespectforhumanrights, includingtherightsofpersons belonging to minorities” (Art. 7 of the Treaty on the European Union). A safeguardingmechanismhasbeenintroduced,inwhichtheCouncilmaydecideontheexistenceofa“breachbyaMember State of the values referred to inArticle 2” TEUor that a risk for the breach is present.Consequently, if a respective decision is undertaken by the Council, “certain rights” of memberstatesstemmingfromthetreatiesmaybesuspended.The mentioned procedure has been specified by the Commission in the 2014 Rule of LawFramework,whichforeseesa“cooperationanddialogueprocedure”betweentheCommissionandthe member state in question. The procedure consists of several stages, which reflect theseriousness of the infringement and the willingness of themember state to solve the issue. ThepurposeoftheFrameworkwas“toresolvefuturethreatstotheruleoflawinMemberStatesbeforethe conditions for activating the mechanisms foreseen in Article 7 TEU” (from the Rule of LawCommunication).ThePolishcontroversiessurroundingthenationalConstitutionalTribunalin2015triggeredthefirstapplication of the Rule of Law procedure. After two years since the commencement of theprocedure,thedialoguebetweentheCommissionandPolishgovernmentgavenoresults.Insteadofacooperativemodelofcollaboration,thedialogueevolvedintoaconfrontativepoliticaldiscourse.The procedure against Poland highlights the weakness of the Rule of Law framework, being thepoliticalclashbetweentheCommissionandthememberstate.Atthesametime,thereluctanceofother member states to support the decision based on art. 7 TEU deprives the procedure of itspotentialpower.Accordingly,theprocedurenotonlydidnotcontributetoachievingtheRuleofLawframework’sgoal,buthavedeterioratedthepoliticaldiscoursebetweenthememberstateandtheEU,contributingtotheEuroscepticismofthePolishgovernment.In the paperwe claim the procedure should be either abolishedwhile acceptingmember state’sown-responsibility inthemattersnotdirectlyregulatedbythecommunity,ortransformed intoan

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early-stage preventive system. In the latter option, the interaction could be modelled on theexperiencesoftheUnion inthefinancialcrisis,whereoccasionallymemberstateswereobligedtoconsult their policies with the EU before their implementation. Such a model could provide forpreventionofunwelcomechanges,whileavoidingtheconsecutivepoliticalconfrontation.NinaMezykholdsaMasterofScience(Hons)andaMasterofArts(Hons)degreesfromJagiellonianUniversity in Cracow. She is a psychologist, sociologist, and a credentialed coach (ICF ACC). Ninapossess extensive academic experience in the field of intercultural communication andmanagement.Herresearchinterestsarefocusedontheprocessesofadaptationtoculturallydiverseworkingenvironment.CurrentlyNinaisworkingasaSeniorLecturerfortheStudyGroup,overseeingthe Social Sciences department in Sydney. She is also associated with the Australian College ofAppliedPsychology,providinglecturesandworkshopsforcoachingtrainees.Robert Mezyk is aa Visiting Scholar at the ANU Centre for European Studies and aLecturer ininternational lawat theAustralianCatholicUniversity.Heholds aMasterof LawandaMasterofPhilosophyfromJagiellonianUniversityinCracow,aswellasaMagisterLegum(LL.M)fromJohannesGutenbergUniversitätMainz. He also studied Law and Philosophy at theHeidelbergUniversity inGermany.RobertiscurrentlyaccomplishinghisPhDatHumboltUniversity,GermanyresearchingtheconditionallendingwithintheEuropeanUnionduringthefinancialcrisis.Hepossessesexperienceascorporatelawyerandmanager.AustralianCollegeofAppliedPsychology ANU,CentreforEuropeanStudiesNinaMezyk [email protected] [email protected],JAMESandKALOGEROPOULOUExpressingGreeknessinatimeofcrisis:kalozoia[‘goodlife’]versusausterity?At theheightof thecrisis inGreece,anarticle in theGuardian about the impactof socio-politicalanarchyontourismreceivedthefollowingresponsefromareaderinCrete:‘Greeceisasafeplacetovisit…Peopleherearefriendly…Westilldanceandsing…andourtablesarestillpiledwithdeliciousmeze’.Thisisanexpressionoftheconceptofkalozoia–theenjoymentofthegoodlifethatboostsphysical and psychological well-being within a prosperous nation where people live well, aphilosophicalapproachtolifethatGreeksconsiderpartoftheiridentity.Theparadoxisthatbecauseof the financial crisis, people are not living well, yet the idea of enjoying dance,music and foodmighthelptokeepthemgoing.Atthesametime,thiswayoflifeisinjeopardysinceitisviewedbymanyoutsideGreeceashavingcontributed toGreece’seconomicproblems in the firstplace.ThispaperexaminestherelationshipbetweentheGreekcrisisandtheconceptofkalozoia–whetherthenotionofkalozoiacontributedtothecrisis,andhowthecrisisandausteritymeasuresareimpactingonGreeks’wayoflifeandtheirsenseofGreekness.ConsideringtheEU’sdeclaredgoalof‘unityindiversity’, are the reforms imposed as conditions for the bailouts undermining diversity, or is thepopularGreeknotionofkalozoiaitselfanationalistreactionthatchallengesEuropeanunity?

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James Headley is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He haspublishedacademicarticlesandbookchaptersonRussia-EUrelations,andnationalismintheformerSovietUnionandYugoslavia.HeistheauthorofRussiaandtheBalkans:ForeignPolicyfromYeltsinto Putin(Hurst and Co./Columbia University Press, 2008) and co-editor ofPublic Participation inForeignPolicy(PalgraveMacmillan,2012).HehasaPhDandanMAfromtheUniversityofLondon,andaBA(Hons)fromtheUniversityofOxford.Sofia Kalogeropoulou is a Teaching Fellowat the School of Physical Education, Sport and ExerciseSciences at theUniversity ofOtago,NewZealand. She graduatedwith aMaster ofDance StudiesfromtheUniversityofOtagoandholdsaBachelorinPerformingArtswithamajorindancefromtheUniversityofAuckland.Herresearchfocusesondance,cultureandnationalidentity,anddanceandgender.Shealsoexplorestherelationshipbetweendanceandsomaticpractices,inparticularballetandAlexanderTechniqueDrJamesHeadley MsSofiaKalogeropoulouUniversityofOtago,NewZealand [email protected] [email protected],OTTAVIO&DAMJANOVIC,IVANAInter-TreatyRelationsintheEUHowdotheEUfoundingtreatiesrelatetoothertreatiessignedbytheEUanditsMemberStates?ShouldEU lawprevail?Or should rather intra- andextra-EU treaties takeprecedence?Thispaperaddresses the question with a specific focus on investment law. With respect to differentapproaches taken by investment tribunals in Energy Charter Treaty cases against Spain, the issuewhether the ECT or EU law prevails remains unclear. Answering the question involves issues ofhierarchy, time and speciality. Ultimately, this issue has profound implications for the foundationandfutureoftheEU.OttavioQuirico(LLB,LLM,PhD)isaSeniorLecturerattheUniversityofNewEngland,SchoolofLaw,andanHonoraryLectureratANUCentreforEuropeanStudies.IvanaDamjanovic(LLM,MEconSc,GDLP)isaPhDcandidateatANUCentreforEuropeanStudiesandasessional lecturer in lawattheUniversityofCanberra. Ivana isaCroatianandAustralian lawyer,andpreviouslyworkedasacareerdiplomatfortheGovernmentofCroatia.MsIvanaDamjanovic DrOttavioQuiricoAustralianNationalUniversity,Australia UniversityofNewEngland,[email protected] [email protected]

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PlenaryPanel1–TheEuropeanUnioninaMultipolarWorld

ProfessorJacquelineLo(Chair)Professor Jacqueline Lo is AssociateDean (International) for theANUCollege of Arts and SocialSciences and Executive Director of the Australian National University’s Centre for EuropeanStudies.SheisalsotheChairofAcademicBoard(2016-2018).Jacqueline isanAdjunctResearchFellowoftheCentrefor InterweavingPerformanceCulturesattheFreeUniversityofBerlin.Herresearchfocusesonissuesofrace,colonialism,diasporaandtheinteractionofculturesandcommunitiesacrossethnic,nationalandregionalborders.PublicationsincludeStaging Nation(HKUP 2002),Performance and Cosmopolitics(Palgrave Macmillan 2007,with Helen Gilbert). Her latest publications include editing a special issue of theAsia EuropeJournal(2014) and contributing to a volume of essays on the concept of empathy andmemorystudies(2016).Jacqueline has considerable experience in the areas of education and cultural policy, culturaldiplomacyandmanagementinthetertiarysector.Sheispresentlyservingonthereferencegroupfor theACTArts Framework Policy Review and regularly conducts briefings for government andthediplomaticcorps.ShehasbeenVisitingFellowatUCLA,NYU,theFreeUniversityofBerlinandKonstanzUniversity,andDAADGuestProfessorattheUniversityofCologne.SheistheFoundingChair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and amember of the NYU Global ArtsExchangeProgram.ShewasawardedtheChevalierOrdredesPalmesAcadémiquesin2014.ProfessorHeribertDieterHeribert Dieter is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs,Berlin, Germany. He is also anAssociate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation andRegionalisation(CSGR),UniversityofWarwick,UK.ProfessorYeoLayHweeYeoLayHweeisDirectoroftheEuropeanUnionCentreinSingaporeandSeniorResearchFellowatthe Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Dr Yeo is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the SRajaratnam School of International Studies and teaches part time at the National University ofSingapore. An international relations expert, she participates actively both in policy dialogue,research and in academic workshops and conferences. Her research interests revolve aroundcomparativeregionalism;ASEANandEU;andtheAsia-EuropeMeeting(ASEM)process.Someofherrecentpublicationsinclude“TheEUasaSecurityActorinSoutheastAsia”;“InstitutionalRegionalismversusNetworkedRegionalism–EuropeandEastAsiaCompared”;“FromAFTAtoASEANEconomicCommunity – Is ASEANmoving towards an EU-style economic integration”; and “Where is ASEMHeading: Towards a Networked Approach to Global Governance?”. For her exemplary record inresearchandpolicyworkinregionalismandAsia-Europe/ASEAN-EUrelations,shewasawardedtheNakasone Yasuhiro Award in June 2007. She had also been awarded various short term visitingfellowshipsandscholarshipstakinghertoBrussels,LeidenandAalborg.

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ProfessorNataliaChabanProfessor Natalia Chabanis Co-Head of the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies(heading European and European Union Studies and European Languages) at the University ofCanterbury, New Zealand. She is also a JeanMonnet Chair and Deputy Director of the NationalCentre for Research on Europe at the same University. Professor Chaban widelypublishes on thetopic of external perceptions, political a communication and political psychology in internationalrelationsandforeignpolicy(includingarticlesinsuchhighimpactjournalsastheJournalofCommonMarketStudies, JournalofEuropean Integration,CooperationandConflict, ForeignPolicyAnalysis,Mobilities, Comparative European Politics, Asian Security). Professor Chaban is NZ EUCN AdvisoryBoardmemberandaco-editorofAustralianNewZealandJournalofEuropeanStudies(ANZJES)sinceitsinception.

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PlenaryPanel2-RegionalInitiativestoPromoteEconomicandSocialCohesion

ProfessorBruceWilson(Chair)Professor BruceWilson is Director of the European Union Centre at RMIT University. He leads amajor research program on comparative regional policy in Europe, Australia and Asia, looking atinterventions to promote innovative economic development and human capability that improvesthelivingandworkingconditionsofpeopleinmetropolitanandruralcity-regions.Hehashadlongexperience in working with all levels of government on organisational and social change, and iscommitted to linking researchers and policymakerswith city and regional governments in policyformationrelatedtosocialandeconomicpolicy, innovation, lifelong learningandenvironment.HewasafoundingCo-DirectorofPascalInternationalObservatory.AlessandroRainoldiAlessandro Rainoldi leads the "Territorial Development" Unit at the European Commission’s JointResearch Centre, Seville, working at the crossroads of regional development, innovation andindustrial policies. In the sameUnit hehas specifically beendealingwith smart specialisation andregionaleconomicmodelling.Heworkedextensively for theCommission'sDirectorate-General forRegional and Urban Policy namely dealing with the negotiation and management of EU fundingprogrammesinItaly,MaltaandRomaniaandcontributingtothepolicyagendaonissuesrelatedtogovernance, innovation, financial engineering and evaluation. He was part of the assessmentcommitteeoftheEuropeanEnergyProgrammeforRecovery.Hepreviouslyworkedatthestudy&researchdepartmentofaleadingItalianbankinggroupandasafree-lanceeconomicjournalist.HeteachesEUstructuralfundsattheEuropeanCollegeofParma.ProfessorCarolineSaundersDrCarolineSaundershas30yearsresearchexpertiseintheUKandNewZealand.Shehasover300publications specialising in sustainable economic development. Her current research includes anassessmentof internationalmarketsand theirpoliciesand their impactondevelopment. ShehasundertakenresearchforawiderrangeofprivateandpublicbodiesbothinNZandoverseas.TheseincludetheEUCommission,DEFRA,FAO,OECD,MPI,MFAT,Treasury,MFE,MBIE,Fonterra,Industryandvariousothersectorgroupsandfirms. She isontheLandcareReserachboard,theBiosecurityMinisterialAdvisoryCommitteeandtheCounciloftheRoyalSociety.Shewas awardedeconomist of the year in 2007 andmadeanofficer of theNZorderofmerit in2009.ProfessorRobynEversoleRobyn Eversole, professor at the Centre for Social Impact based at Swinburne University, is ananthropologist known for her research on practical regional and community development issuesacross Australia and Latin America. Robyn is the president of the Australia and New ZealandRegionalScienceAssociationInternational(ANZRSAI)andmemberoftheCouncilonAustraliaLatin

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America Relations (COALAR). Her books with major international publishers includeKnowledgePartnering for Community Development(2015),Regional Development in Australia: BeingRegional(2016), and the forthcomingAnthropology for Development, From Theory to Practice(2018).

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PlenaryPanel3-HarnessingGlobalisationtobuildabetterworldforthebenefitofall

MsJaneDrake-Brockman(Chair)JaneDrake-BrockmanisDirectoroftheEUCentreforGlobalAffairs,UniversityofAdelaide.Aformerdiplomat,sheservedasMinisterattheAustralianDelegationtotheEUinBrussels.Shehasworkedwith the International Trade Centre in Geneva, Commonwealth Secretariat in London and OECDSecretariat in Paris; founded the Australian Services Roundtable; served as Executive Committeemember,HongKongCoalitionofServicesIndustries,Convenor,PECCTaskforceonServicesandco-convenes the newAsia Pacific Services Coalition. She has taughtMacroeconomics at the ChineseUniversity of HK: published extensively on trade policy issues; contributed to 3 World EconomicForumExpertsGroups-onGlobalValueChains;Services:Trade,Finance,Development.ProfessorKymAndersonACKym Anderson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and at ANU’s CrawfordSchool of Public Policy.Heworked at theGATT (nowWTO) Secretariat during 1990-92 and at theWorldBankduring2004-07.Hehaspublishedaround400articlesand40books.HeChairstheBoardof Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is a recipient of an HonoraryDoctorofEconomicsdegreefromtheUniversityofAdelaideandaDistinguishedAlumniAwardfromtheUniversityofNewEngland.In2015hebecameaCompanionoftheOrderofAustralia(AC).DrYoseRizalDamuriDr Yose Rizal Damuri’s research activities focus on international trade, regional integration andglobalizationofvaluechain.HeisactiveinseveralresearchandadvisorynetworksbothinIndonesiaand in East Asia, such as Indonesia Service Dialogue (ISD) and Asia-Pacific Research and TrainingNetwork on Trade (ARTNeT). Yose also teaches International Economics courses at the Faculty ofEconomics University of Indonesia. In addition, he occasionally writes in local and nationalnewspapers.DrPeterMumfordDrPeterMumfordhasanMA(Distinction)fromVUW’sSchoolofPoliticalScienceandInternationalRelationsonthetopicof‘Astudyoffactorsaffectingregulatorycooperationbetweenstates’,andaPhDfromVUW’sSchoolofGovernmentonthetopicof ‘Enhancingperformance-basedregulation:lessons fromNew Zealand’s building control system’. Peter specializes in regulatorymanagementand design and international regulatory cooperation, and has both written on these topics andpresentedon them inNewZealand andoverseas. Peter has extensive experience in internationalnegotiations,mostrecentlyastheNewZealandnegotiatorofthe‘horizontalissues’chaptersintheTrans-PacificPartnership(TPP).ProfessorChristopherFindlay

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ChristopherFindlayisExecutiveDeanoftheFacultyoftheProfessionsattheUniversityofAdelaidefrom June 2011. Prior to that he was Head of the School of Economics in the Faculty (sinceNovember2005)andbeforethat–ProfessorofEconomics intheAsiaPacificSchoolofEconomicsand Government at the Australian National University. His primary research theme is Australia'seconomic relations.A special interest is the reformand industrializationof theChineseeconomy.Professor Findlay has been especially involved in research on the textiles, steel and air transportindustriesinEastAsiaandontheimplicationsofdevelopmentsinthoseindustriesforAustralia.MrIvanoCasellaIvano Casella was appointed Counsellor and Head of the Economic and Trade Section of the EUDelegation to Australia and New Zealand, in September 2014. Prior to that he served as PolicyOfficer inchargeofTrade inServices,at theEUPermanentMission to theWTO inGeneva (2010-2014). He made most of his career in the Directorate General for Trade and the EuropeanCommission. He was in charge of trade relations with South-East Asian countries (2001-2003).Responsible for trade negotiation with Mercosur countries (2003-2006) and in charge of tradenegotiationswithSouthernAfricancountries(2006-2010).BeforejoiningtheEuropeanCommissionin2001,hewasalsoselectedasofficialandinvestigatorfortheEuropeananti-fraudoffice.Hestartedhiscareerin1995workingforBusinessEuropeasTradeAdvisor.He holds degrees in International Relations (Universite catholique de Louvain); a specializationdegree inEuropeaneconomics (UCL);amasterdegree in internationalpolitics (Universite libredeBruxelles)andapostgraduateinInternationalTrade(SolvayBusinessSchool).MarriedwithGenetwithtwochildrenLeaandRaphael,hewasborninBelgium.

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PlenaryPanel4–PerspectivesfromEuropeanAmbassadors

DrAnnmarieElijah(Chair)Dr Annmarie Elijah is Associate Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies. She previouslyworkedasapolicyofficerintheAustralianDepartmentofPrimeMinisterandCabinetandshehastaughtpoliticsattheUniversityofMelbourne,VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonandANU.HerPhD(University of Melbourne) examined the implications of British membership of the EuropeanCommunityforAustralia.Hercurrentresearchisfocussedoncomparativeregional integrationandfederalism in Europe and Australasia. She recently held the Europe-Australia Business CouncilFellowship at ANU. In 2016, she was awarded Jean Monnet funding to train government andindustryaheadoftheforthcomingAustralia-EUtradeagreementnegotiations.HerExcellencyMsUnniKløvstad,AmbassadorofNorwaytoAustraliaUnniKløvstad isa careerdiplomatwhohas served in theNorwegianForeignService forover twodecades.ShehasextensivemultilateralexperienceservingatNorwegianMissionstotheUN,NATOandEU.Most recently, she held the position as Director, Head of Section for Security Policy and NorthAmerica at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was responsible for NATOcooperation,UNpeacekeeping,bilateralrelationstotheUSAandCanada,aswellassecuritysectorreform and global security challenges.Prior to 2009, as Minister Counsellor to the NorwegianMissiontotheEuropeanUnioninBrussels,MsKløvstadcoordinatedthemission’sworkontheEU’sforeignandsecuritypolicy,includingsecurityanddefencepolicy.ShehadpreviouslyheldthepositionofSecondSecretarytothePermanentMissionofNorwaytotheUNinNewYork,aswellasFirstSecretarytotheNorwegianMissiontoNATOinBrussels.HisExcellencyDrBernhardZimburg,AmbassadorofAustriatoAustraliaBernhard Zimburg graduated from theUniversityof Innsbruck,Austriawith aDoctorate in Law in1979andenteredtheFederalMinistryin1982.From1985to1988heservedastheFirstSecretaryat the Austrian Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria and from 1988 to 1992 as Counsellor at the AustrianEmbassyinWashington,USA.From 1993 to 1997 Dr Zimburg was head of Division of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs,DirectorateforEasternEuropeanAffairs.Followingthis,hewasappointedasAustrianAmbassadortoAlgeriauntil2001.From2001to2006heservedasAustrianAmbassadortoIndonesia,SingaporeandTimor Leste. In2007,hewasappointedasHeadofDepartmentAsia,Australia,NewZealand,PacificandASEMattheFederalMinistryforEuropeanandInternationalAffairs.From2012to2016heservedasAustrianAmbassadortoJapan.In2016,hewasappointedasAustrianAmbassadortoAustraliaandNewZealand.

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PlenaryPanel5–Business&Policy

AssociateProfessorBrunoMascitelli(Chair)BrunoMascitelli isAssociateProfessoratSwinburneUniversityofTechnologyand is JeanMonnetChair (2016-2019). He is also the President of the Contemporary European Studies Association ofAustralia(CESAA).HismajorareasofteachingandresearchincludetheEuropeanUnion,aswellasmigration and expatriate voting and political engagement. He has just published as co-editor“Australia’s new wave of Italian migration: Paradise or illusion?” (2017, Australian ScholarlyPublishing).MelissaConleyTylerMelissa Conley Tyler is the National Executive Director of theAustralian Institute of InternationalAffairs,anindependentnon-profitorganisationrankedthetopthinktankinSoutheastAsiaandthePacificintheGlobalGoToThinkTanksIndexforthelastthreeyears. DuringmorethanadecadeleadingtheAIIA,shehasedited50publications,organisedmorethan90policy events, overseen dramatic growth in youth engagement and built stronger relations withother institutes of international affairs worldwide. Her recent research focuses on globalgovernance, Australian foreign policy and changes in diplomatic practice. Ms Conley Tyler wasselected as one of the nation’s 1,000 “best and brightest” to participate in the Australia 2020SummitconvenedbyPrimeMinisterKevinRudd.MsConleyTylerisalawyerandspecialistinconflictresolution, including negotiation, mediation and peace education. She was previously ProgramManageroftheInternationalConflictResolutionCentreattheUniversityofMelbourneandSeniorFellow of Melbourne Law School.She has an international profile in conflict resolution includingmembership of the Editorial Board of theConflict Resolution Quarterly.She is listed inRoutledge’sWho’sWhoinInternationalAffairsandInternationalWho’sWhoofWomen. TimCarrollTim comes from a background inmedical science, technology transfer and commercialisation. Hehasexperience inexecutivemanagement in themedicalandhealthsciences, internationalmarketdevelopmentwork inAsia,andinnovationandcommercialisationsupport.Hehada longcareeratCSL, one of Australia's largest and oldest biotherapeutics companies which operates a globalbusinessandproducesbloodplasmaproducts,vaccinesandpharmaceuticals.Therehemanagedanumber of technical teams and CSL's international market development work in Asia. He hasextensiveexperiencetravellingtoanddevelopglobalmarkets.HeresidedinSingaporeandatravelbaseduringaphaseofAsianfocussedmarketdevelopmentfora2-yearperiodfrom2006to2008.Timhas also runhis own consulting firm andmanaged La TrobeUniversity's intellectual propertyportfolio andKnowledge TransferOffice.Hehas alsoworked extensivelywith start-up companiesandraisedventurecapitalfundstosupportthesecompanies. Tim’s original scientific specialities as a Medical Scientist are Blood Transfusion Medicine andToxinology(i.e.snakes,spidersandothervenomouscreatures).

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PlenaryPanel6-StudyingtheEuropeanUnion:GlobalPerspectives

ProfessorNataliaChaban(Chair)Professor Natalia Chabanis Co-Head of the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies(heading European and European Union Studies and European Languages) at the University ofCanterbury, New Zealand. She is also a JeanMonnet Chair and Deputy Director of the NationalCentre for Research on Europe at the same University. Professor Chaban widelypublishes on thetopic of external perceptions, political a communication and political psychology in internationalrelationsandforeignpolicy(includingarticlesinsuchhighimpactjournalsastheJournalofCommonMarketStudies, JournalofEuropean Integration,CooperationandConflict, ForeignPolicyAnalysis,Mobilities, Comparative European Politics, Asian Security). Professor Chaban is NZ EUCN AdvisoryBoardmemberandaco-editorofAustralianNewZealandJournalofEuropeanStudies(ANZJES)sinceitsinception.ProfessorPauloCanelasdeCastroAssociate Professor, University ofMacau. President, European Union Studies Association,Macau.FormerCounsel,internationalcourts,Stategovernments,InternationalOrganizationsDrEviFitrianiEvi is a senior lecturer of the International Relations Department, Faculty of Social and PoliticalSciences,UniversitasIndonesiaandtheHeadoftheDepartmentfrom2012to2016.Currently,sheisthe Head ofMiriam Budiardjo Resource Center of FISIP UI. She is co-founder of the University’sMasterProgramofEuropeanStudiesandASEANStudyCenter.SheachievedPhDfromtheANUandwas educated in Indonesia, the UK, the U.S, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Hungary. Herresearch focuseson Indonesian foreignpolicy,ASEAN, regionalism,andAsia-Europe relations. Evipublished a book, Southeast Asians and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): State’s interests andinstitution’s longevity (ISEAS Singapore) in 2014, and a chapter inAsia-Europe Connectivity Vision2025:ChallengesandOpportunities(ERIA)in2016.AssociateProfessorBrunoMascitelliBrunoMascitelli isAssociateProfessoratSwinburneUniversityofTechnologyand is JeanMonnetChair (2016-2019). He is also the President of the Contemporary European Studies Association ofAustralia(CESAA).HismajorareasofteachingandresearchincludetheEuropeanUnion,aswellasmigration and expatriate voting and political engagement. He has just published as co-editor“Australia’s new wave of Italian migration: Paradise or illusion?” (2017, Australian ScholarlyPublishing).

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GeneralInformation

If you have any concerns or problems during the conference please contact Yvonne Grosch([email protected] ), Franny Martens ([email protected]) or AmandaCrichton([email protected]),orinurgentcasesviamobilephoneon+64211845942or+61404128863and+61418520136.VisitingAustralia–VisaandCustomRequirements

All travelers other than Australian and New Zealand citizens need to present the followingdocumentstoofficersinimmigrationclearance:

•avalidpassportorotheracceptabletraveldocument•avalidvisaorauthoritytoenterAustralia(includingelectronicvisas)• a completed and signed Incoming Passenger Card, including health and characterdeclaration.

Anyonewhoarriveswithout a valid travel document, visa or authority to enterAustralia,mayberefused entry to Australia or delayed until their identity and claims to enter Australia have beenconfirmed.A passenger card is a document providing passenger identification and an effective record of aperson’sentrytoanddeparturefromAustralia.Passengercardstobecompletedare:

•anIncomingPassengerCard(IPC)fortravelersenteringAustralia•anOutgoingPassengerCard(OPC)fortravelersdepartingAustralia.

Formoreinformationpleasevisit:http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4351.aspProhibitedImports

There are very strict regulations against the import of non-prescribed drugs, weapons, firearms,wildlife,domesticanimalsandfoodstuffs(includingmeat,poultryanddairy;plantsorpartsofplants[includingfruit,nutsandseeds];animalproducts[includingwool,skinsandeggs]andanyequipmentusedwithdomesticanimals)andotherpotentialsourcesofdiseaseandpestilence(suchasvaccinesorviruses).Thereareseverepenaltiesfordrugtrafficking.Formoreinformationpleasevisit:http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4369.aspTullamarineAirportandTransport

Melbourne Airport is located approximately 25km north-west of the Melbourne's CBD on theTullamarineFreeway-lessthan25minutesbycar.Formoreinformationvisit:http://melbourneairport.com.au/to-from-the-airport/maps-directions/overview.html

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Melbourne’staxisMelbourne’staxisareasafeandconvenientwaytogetfromtheairporttoyourdestination.Taxiranksare locatedonthegroundflooroutsideTerminals1and3.Youcancatchataxifromdesignatedtaxiranks,unlesstheyyouhavepre-bookedone.Seemoreat:http://melbourneairport.com.au/to-from-the-airport/taxis/overview.html#sthash.Ofk30wqV.dpufTaxifaresarecalculatedaccordingtothedistanceanddurationofthejourney,andwillvarybasedonthenumberofpeopleandtimeoftravel.Additionalchargesapply ifyoutravelonsomepublicholidays,lateatnight,travelwithfiveormorepeopleorpaywithcreditordebitcard.OnaverageataxitoorfromtheairportwillcostfromaboutAUD$60,00.TheSkyBusoffersanexpressbusservice fromtheairport to thecitycentre.This serviceoperates24/7,includingallpublicholidays.Busesrunevery10minutesthroughouttheday.CostsfortheSkyBusareAUD$19AdultonewayorreturnforAUD$37Ticketscanbepurchasedonarrivalatthebusstoporpurchasedonlineatwww.skybus.com.au.On arrival at Southern Cross Station in the city, SkyBus provides a complimentary hotel transferservice,subjecttoavailability,duringthefollowinghours:

MondaytoFridayfrom6amto10.30pmandSaturday,Sundayfrom6amto7pmSouthernCrossStationisMelbourne’sprimarymetropolitan,regionalandairportgateway.Itservesover1.2Millionpeopleeachweekandconnectstram,bus,trainandairporttransfers.Forinformationpleasevisit:http://www.southerncrossstation.net.auPleasenotethatwearenotabletocoveranydomestictransportcosts.

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HotelInformation

Pleasenote thatwearenot covering costs for accommodationorbreakfast. Pleaseensure thatyouwillpayallyourcostsatcheck-out.The conference website provides information on hotels within easy walking distance from theconferencevenueandspecialdiscountcodes.ConferenceWebsite:https://www.rmit.edu.au/events/all-events/conferences/2017/october/fulfilling-the-vision-eu-futures

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ConferenceVenue

Theconferencewillbeheldat theRMITUniversityCityCampus,445SwanstonStreet,MelbourneVIC3000.ItistheSwanstonAcademicBuilding(SAB)80onlevel7.

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ConferenceDinner

AWelcomeReceptionwillbehostedonMondayeveningfollowingtheconferenceintheopenareaonlevel7oftheSABbuilding.OnTuesdayeveningtheconferencedinnerwillbeheldfrom18:30-20:00atTheToffinTown,TheBallroom,252SwanstonStreet,Melbourne.Website:https://www.thetoffintown.com

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PracticalInformation

TheinternationalcallingcodeforAustraliais+61followedbythephonenumber.Electricity inAustraliaissuppliedataminimalvoltageof230-240voltsand50hertz.Thepinsonpowerplugslook asbelow.Usually thepoweroutletshaveon/offswitches. With the switches on the outlets you canleavethepieceofequipmentpluggedinbutswitchoffthesurgeofelectricity.MelbourneTimeZoneDifferenceMelbourneislocatedintheAustralian"EasternTime"zone.

StandardTimedifferencetoUTC/GreenwichMeanTime:+10hours.DaylightSavingTimedifferencetoUTC/GreenwichMeanTime:+11hours

CurrencyAustraliahasadecimalsystemwith100centstothedollar(AUD$).Coinshavevaluesof5,10,20and50cents,and$1and$2;noteshavevaluesof$5,$10,$20,$50and$100.ThecurrencyistheAustraliandollar(AUD$).Automated teller machines (ATMs) compatible with most international credit cards are readilyavailableinmaincities.Foreigncurrenciesareexchangeableatbanksandinternationalairports.Allmajorcreditcardsareaccepted.Thereisa10%Goods&Servicestax.DepartureTaxisincludedinthecostofairtickets.TippingisnotageneralcustominAustralia,andisatyourdiscretion.Ifyoureceivegoodserviceyoumaychoosetotip10%atcafesandrestaurants.Intaxis,nomorethanroundingoffthefaretothenextdollarisgenerallyfollowed.

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AboutMelbourne

RMITUniversity has threemain campuses aroundMelbourne,which is the capital of the state ofVictoria in Australia. Melbourne is amongst the world's most livable cities for its safe andmulticulturalenvironmentaswellaswell-developedinfrastructure.Melbourne’sskyline isamixofcutting-edge designs and heritage architecture. The city is famous for its restaurants, fashionboutiques,café-filledlaneways,bars,artgalleries,andparks.Melbourne has almost 4 million residents from over 140 nations, 41 per cent of them are bornoverseas.Itisalsoahometoaround50,000internationalstudents.FindoutmorefactsandinformationonMelbournefromthelinksbelow

• MelbourneonWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne• Visitorsinformationhttp://www.visitmelbourne.com/• That'sMelbourne-informationaboutevents,diningandshopping

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Gettingaround

Melbourne’strains,tramsandbusesareaneasywaytoseeallofthecity’sbestattractions,sportingvenuesandshoppingprecincts.Allyouneedisamykicardandyou’llbeabletotravelaroundthecity.International and interstatevisitors canbuyamyki Explorerpack,which combinesa ready tousemykicard,visitorinformationandspecialoffers.The Free Tram Zone in Melbourne’s CBD makes it easy to move around the city. The principalboundaries of the Free Tram Zone are Spring Street, Flinders Street and La Trobe Street.Additionally,thetramroutesalongVictoriaStreet,WilliamStreetandElizabethStreetthatsurroundVictoriaMarketarealsoincludedaswellastheDocklandsarea.Ifyoutramtravelisonlywithinthezone,travelisfree,soyoudonotneedtotouchonwithamykicard.TheCityCircleTram(Route35)travelstheperimeteroftheCBD(CentralBusinessDistrict),takinginmanyofMelbourne’slandmarkseverydayoftheyearexceptChristmasDayandGoodFriday.Formoreinformationpleasevisit:https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/getting-around/visiting-melbourne/FormoreinformationonMelbourneanditsattractionspleasevisit:http://www.visitmelbourne.com

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This conference and the EU Centres in Australia and New

Zealandhavebeenco-fundedbyanEuropeanCommission

Grant.

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