SETA PANEL
Speaker:
Angus Lapsley, Director of the European and Global Issues Secretariat at the UK’s Cabinet Office
Date/Time: September 13, 2012, Thursday 16:30
Venue: SETA Ankara room, ANKARA
The conference organized in collaboration with the British Embassy will address the following questions: “How does the UK view the significant developments that will take place within the European Union this Autumn in response to the Eurozone crisis? What are the potential social, economic and political implications? How does London view of the EU-Turkey relationship and do these developments have any implications for enlargement of the EU, in particular Turkey’s accession? In the light of these questions, Angus Lapsley will discuss the future of the European Union and Turkish-EU Relations. We hope you will be able to attend this special panel. Angus Lapsley joined the UK civil service in 1991 and served John Major and then Tony Blair as Home Affairs Private Secretary. In 1999 he joined the Foreign Office, leading the EU Institutions Unit during the negotiations of the Nice Treaty. Posted to Paris between 2001 and 2005, he followed foreign and security policy issues. From 2006 to 2006 he was Deputy Balkans Co-ordinator in the FCO, and from 2006 – 2010 he was Counsellor and head of the Common & Foreign Security Policy (CFSP), CSDP and EU Enlargement team at the UK Representation to the EU. In 2010 he became Director (Americas) in the FCO, overseeing the UK’s diplomatic operations in the region, before moving to the Cabinet Office as Director in the European and Global Issues Secretariat in April 2012. He oversees bilateral relations, EU institutional policy, EU external policies and a range of global economic issues. He also leads the Cabinet Office’s role on the review of the balance of competences between the UK and the EU.
Please kindly RSVP to rsvp@setav.org / + 90 312 551 21 65 Sera Marshall Sera.Marshall@fco.gov.uk / +90 312 455 3257
Note: Panel discussion will be held in English.