The Ambassador of the European Union to Australia, His Excellency Dr Michael Pulch will launch the new book ‘So Distant, So Close’: Australia and the European Union in the 21st Century.

Editors:
Associate Professor Bruno Mascitelli, Swinburne University and the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA)
Professor Bruce Wilson, EU Centre at RMIT University

This book on the Australia–European Union relationship comes at an opportune time. The book offers specialist commentaries on topics that are at the heart of the Australia–European Union relationship, and tells the story of how their interests have come to coincide more and more closely.

Contributors include ANU Centre for European Studies academics Dr Annmarie Elijah, Anne McNaughton, Ayden O’Neil, and Nicholas Simoes da Silva. 

Lunch will be provided.

Release date: October, 2018
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781925801460    
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
 

The event is part of the ANUCES Jean Monnet project “Third Country Engagement with Changing EU Trade Policy”. This project seeks to explore and improve understanding of the EU’s evolving trade policy and its implications for third countries, including Australia and countries in the Asia-Pacific region.