Sutherland Speaks out on the European Union's Future

Sutherland, Peter (1995) Sutherland Speaks out on the European Union's Future. EIPASCOPE 1995(2):pp. 1-12.

Abstract

[Preface]. Speaking in his personal capacity, Peter D. Sutherland, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, delivered the 17th Jean Monnet Lecture at the European University Institute in Florence on 10 February 1995. In his lecture, entitled 'The European Union: A Stage of Transition', Mr. Sutherland set out the external and internal challenges facing the Union in the run up to the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference. His message is that these challenges call for more, not less, European integration, and that this principle should guide the reforms of the Union's institutions which the 1996 Conference would have to address. A confident and outward-looking Europe, in touch with the liberal principles on which it was founded, and credible to its citizens, is vital for the prosperity and stability of the world ­ and of Europe itself.