Bulletin

Issue: April 2006

News

Former Polish PM at La Trobe

Former Prime Minister of Poland, and currently UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Professor Marek Belka, recently visited La Trobe University.

In Australia as guest of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs, Professor Belka gave a well attended lecture on the European Union after enlargement.

His visit to the University was at the instigation of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Stoddart, who chaired the lecture, and of the Politics and Economics departments.

Professor Belka also had informal discussions with members of the Politics and Economics departments.

In his lecture he explored the implications of enlargement for the established members of the Union in regard both to foreign policy and the development of economic and social policy within the Union.

His lecture laid the foundations for further links with the University, of great potential importance given the establishment of the new European Union Centre based at La Trobe.