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New MSc Programme!
Executive Masters Degree in the Political Economy of Europe
The European Institute is pleased to announce the launch of a new Executive Masters Degree in the Political Economy of Europe starting in December 2013, which offers working professionals the opportunity to earn an LSE Master’s degree while pursuing a full-time career. The programme is aimed at candidates with strong academic credentials and substantial work experience. The courses in the Executive Masters degree in the Political Economy of Europe are taught by experienced teaching staff in the European Institute at the LSE. Students attend eight one-week sessions at the LSE campus in central London. Evaluations consist of essays as well as written take-home exams. A key component of this Executive degree is a dissertation of up to 6,000 words on a topic individually selected. Students receive special research training and support on and off campus to guide them through their dissertation.

'Do countries need currencies, and do currencies need countries?’
LEQS Annual Lecture
Speaker: Prof Harold James
Chair: Prof Paul De Grauwe
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013
Time: 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, NAB
Free and open to all, no ticket required

'Do countries need currencies, and do currencies need countries?’
Speaker:Jean-François Copé
Date: Wednesday 5 June 2013
Time: 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, LSE
Free and open to all, no ticket required
LSE European Institute Perspectives on Europe, in association with Génération France.fr

‘Representing Europeans: A Pragmatic Approach’
Speaker: Prof Richard Rose
Chair: Anthony Teasdale LSE European Institute
Date: Thursday 6 June 2013
Time:18.30-20.00
Venue: New Theatre, LSE East Building
Free and open to all; no ticket required.

An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus |

Editors : James Ker-Lindsay, Hubert Faustmann, Fiona Mullen

"An Island in Europe" traces offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of a critical phase in Cypriot history, from a range of experts in the fields of politics, academia and conflict resolution.

Senza alibi: Perché il capitalismo italiano non cresce piu

Author: Marco Simoni

The book traces the recent economical history of Italy, and provides necessary explanations on why the legal and political reforms of capitalism didn't work. And to trace who is responsible for these choices as well as to propose coherent alternatives

The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940-1949

|Authors: Kevin Featherstone, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Argyris Mamarelis and Georgios Niarchos

The Last Ottomans traces a fascinating, untold story and tells it through an inter-disciplinary lens, raising important questions of relevance not only to the 1940s but also to the inherited assumptions and images of today.

'The Lost Continent: Europe's Darkest Hour Since World War Two'
Gavin Hewitt, BBC's Europe Editor
Recorded: 8 May 2013

'Countering the crisis: fixing the monetary union and upgrading EU employment policy’
László Andor, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Recorded: 7 May 2013

'Britain and the EU: An Ever-Closer Union of Peoples?'
Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Recorded: 2 May 2013

‘Will the euro crisis kill the single market?’
Shahin Vallée, Sebastian Dullien and Waltraud Schelkle
Recorded: Monday 22 April 2013

'Norway's experience with the EEA. An example for Britain?’
Erna Solberg, Leader and Prime Minister Candidate 2013 of the Conservative Party of Norway
Recorded: Monday 15 April 201

‘Let’s Get Europe Moving’
|Loïc Tribot La Spière, CEPS Director General
Peter Sutherland, Chairman of the LSE Court of Governors; Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Migration
Recorded: 7 March 2013

Ireland: Economic Recovery and the EU Presidency - Stability, Jobs and Growth
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland
Recorded: 11 March 2013

‘Why I am a Euro-optimist’
Alain Juppé, Former Prime Minister of France
Recorded: 4 March 2013

'My Mediterranean’
Prof David Abulafia
Recorded: 1 March 2013

‘EU on a Cross-road and the Future of Our European Project - a View from Central Europe’
Speaker: Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Recorded: 13 February 2013

‘Geopolitical oblivion or a pragmatic approach? Britain, the EU and European foreign policy in 2012’

Helga Schmid, Deputy Secretary General, EEAS
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Dr Heather Grabbe, Director, Open Society European Policy Institute
Dr Spyros Economides, LSE European Institute
Chair: Susi Dennison, Scorecard Project Leader, ECFR

Recorded: 6 February 2013

'Perspectives on the European crises from a small open economy'

Anders Borg, Minister for Finance in Sweden

Recorded: 16 January 2013

'Blaming Europe? Citizens, Governments and the Media'

Prof Sara Hobolt

Recorded: 5 December 2012

'The future of the European Union after the euro crisis: Political union and its discontents'

Ulrike Guérot, José Ignacio Torreblanca, Mark Leonard, Anthony Teasdale

Recorded: 3 December 2012

'The eurozone’s design...failures. Can they be corrected?"

Prof Paul De Grauwe

Recorded: 28 November 2012

'A banking union for Europe: how (and how not) to do it'

Willem Buiter, Paul De Grauwe, Frank Heinemann

Recorded: 7 November 2012

'Europe's Unfinished Currency: The Political Economics of the Euro’

Dr Thomas Mayer

Recorded: 1 November 2012

“Strengthening Competitiveness and Growth in Europe”

Philipp Rösler, German Vice-Chancellor

Recorded: 30 October 2012

“The Mediterranean – an opportunity?”

Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta

Recorded: 26 October 2012

"The European Union Now: what is it and where is it going?"

Anthony Teasdale, Prof Simon Hix, Philip Stephens and Sir Stephen Wall

Recorded: 19 October 2012