2019 Schuman Lecture: Gareth Evans
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2019-09-27

The 2019 Schuman Lecture was delivered by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, ANU Chancellor, on Thursday 26 September 2019.

The director of the European Council on Foreign Relations wrote recently that Europe could become either 'a co-equal power in a tripolar world' - or 'roadkill in a Sino-American game of chicken'. 

How well Europe's major players address, collectively and individually, their current serious political, security, economic and social challenges, does have global implications, including for Australia. In this year's Schuman Lecture, Gareth Evans argues it is very much in the general interest that Europe not continue to punch geopolitically below its global weight.

The Robert Schuman Lecture series celebrates the remarkable achievements of European integration since its modest beginnings in the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, announced in a declaration by French Foreign Minister Schuman. The Australian National University has recognised this achievement and foresight by coordinating the annual Schuman Lecture since 1996.