Held on the 10th Jul 2019
at 6pm to
7:30pm
The prospect of the UK retaining or losing its EU membership is of profound economic and political importance to Australia. The UK is Australia’s largest trading and investment partner in Europe, as well as the second-largest foreign investor in Australia. Australia is also negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU, and is likely to sign a bilateral trade and investment treaty with the UK in the event of Brexit. In the event of a deal or no-deal Brexit, what are the costs and benefits of the UK’s options? How will various Brexit scenarios affect Australia-UK relations?
These issues will be addressed by Dr Rémy Davison who is Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Monash University, and the former Acting Director of the Monash European and EU Centre. He was appointed a United Nations Global Expert in 2010. He was Lecturer in Government at the University of Tasmania between 2003–2005.
Dr Davison is the author of The Political Economy of Single Market Europe (2011), Foreign Policies of the Great and Emerging Powers (2008) and The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century (2018, with Michael Connors and Jörn Dosch). He was Visiting Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in 2015, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Europe Centre, Australian National University between 2008–10.
Dr Davison regularly advises governments and business on trade, security, industry and monetary policy issues. He covered the Eurozone crisis for The Conversation throughout 2011–2015. His forthcoming book is The Political Economy of the Eurozone Crises.
Refreshments from 5.30pm.
Presented in partnership with the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
