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The Senior Experts Group

The Senior Experts group consists of six former UK Ambassadors to the EU, former senior officials in the EU Institutions (including the former Secretary General of the Commission, Lord Williamson) and others who have worked in a senior position in or with EU Institutions. 

Expertise on Contemporary Europe

The Senior Experts group has no party political affiliation. As an independent group, it makes its Briefing Notes available to the European Movement, the All-Party EU Parliamentary Group and to others interested in European Affairs.

Senior Expert Group Members

• Sir Colin Budd
• Mr Graham Avery
• Sir Michael Butler [Chairman]
• Lord Robin Butler
• Sir Brian Crowe
• Sir David Elliott
• Sir Michael Franklin
• Mr Robert Jackson
• Sir John Grant
• Lord David Hannay
• Lord Michael Jay
• Lord John Kerr
• Sir Michael Palliser
• Sir Emyr Jones Parry
• Sir Stephen Wall
• Mr Michael Welsh
• Lord David Williamson

The Senior Experts group produces papers on contemporary European issues drawing on the extensive knowledge and experience of its members. The Senior Experts group has an archive of papers at the European Movement site and they publish position papers with the European Movement and with iCES.

Recent Briefing Notes

• The EU and the Global Financial Crisis
• The EU: The First Fifty Years
• The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Europe and Globalisation
• Is Europe a Superstate?
• Sovereignty and the EU
• The Future Enlargement of the EU
• The Lisbon Agenda for Economic Reform
• European Economic Models - Arguments by Caricature?
• Britain and the EU: Are there alternatives to membership?

The EU Finance

• EU Budget Reform 
• The Future Financing of the EU
• Fraud and Accounting in the EU

New Briefing Papers

• On Foreign Policy: The EU Eastern Partnership
• On Foreign Policy: Kosovo
• On Foreign Policy: EU's aid to the Palestinians
• On Policy: 10 years of the Euro
• On Policy: Climate Change agreement