Former Irish leader talking world affairs in Christchurch

Published by the Communications and Development Department

 

6 September 2004

 

Former Irish Prime Minister, Garret Fitzgerald, will be in Christchurch on Thursday to talk about Europe and the United States’ divergent views on world affairs, at a conference hosted by the University of Canterbury’s National Centre for Research on Europe.

“I shall be discussing how the EU value system, with respect to international relations, developed in a radical way in the second half of the twentieth century,” he says.

Dr Fitzgerald, who served as PM in Ireland in the 1980s, says implications of the differing views were most evident in the build-up to the war in Iraq.

In his keynote address on Thursday, Dr Fitzgerald will offer his views on how the relationship between Europe and the United States might best be managed.

Full programme details for the Outside Looking In conference are available at: http://www.europe.canterbury.ac.nz/conferences/apeu2004/programme.html.

 

Information also available from:

Martin Holland
NCRE Director
03 364 2586
021 770 970
Martin.holland@canterbury.ac.nz