Opportunties and challenges in fostering growth in the EU
Tuesday 23rd April 2013, 16.00-17.30
(followed by a cocktail reception)
The British Embassy in Belgium
Avenue d’Auderghem 10, Oudergemselaan 10, 1040 Brussels
Programme
16.00 - 16.10
Welcome and registration
16.10 -16.15
Mr Richard Tuffs, Director of European Regions Research and Innovation Network, Moderator
16.15 - 16.50
CAGE Roundtable:
Factors slowing down growth in Europe - Mr Nicholas Crafts - Professor of Economic History
and Director of CAGE, University of Warwick
The role of EU Structural Funds in fostering growth - Mr Sascha O. Becker - Professor of
Economics and Deputy Director of CAGE, University of Warwick
Constraints to attracting capital due to tax competition - Ms Vera Troeger - Professor of
Quantitative Political Science, University of Warwick
16.50 - 17.30
Panel discussion:
MEP Malcolm Harbour - Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee
Mr Vasco Cal - Economic Adviser, Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), European
Commission
Mr Olivier Debande - Senior Economist - European Investment Bank
Mr Daniel Mouque - Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG for Regional and Urban
Policy, European Commission
17.30
Cocktail reception
The Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)
CAGE is a Warwick University Department of Economics research centre, funded by the UK Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC). Established in 2010 it is carrying out a 5 year programme of innovative research.
The centre’s research programme is focused on how countries succeed in achieving key economic objectives such as
improving living standards, raising productivity, and maintaining international competitiveness, which are central to
the economic wellbeing of their citizens. Their aim is to develop a better understanding of how to promote
institutions and policies which are conducive to successful economic performance and endeavour to draw lessons for
policy makers from economic history as well as the contemporary world.
For more information please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/
Registration
For registration please send your e-mail to Xenia.Tsitiridou@birmingham.gov.uk Should you wish additional
information please contact Xenia Tsitiridou, European Policy and Funding Adviser, Greater Birmingham and West
Midlands Brussels Office, tel: 0032 2 740 27 21.