Summary: Speaker(s): Ben Cobley, Hugo Dixon, Professor Katrin Flikschuh, Dr Gerard Lyons | On June 23, voters in the will make a decision regarding their willingness to share or pool some of the UK’s sovereignty with the twenty-seven other member states of the European Union. This special event, held as part of the Forum’s 20th anniversary, will consider a motion to change the status quo. We will have two teams of speakers, one speaking for the proposition (Gerard Lyons and Ben Cobley), the other against (Hugo Dixon and Katrin Flikschuh). Ben Cobley (@bencobley) is a writer and political blogger. Hugo Dixon (@Hugodixon) is a columnist, author of The In/Out Question and Chairman and Editor-in-chief of InFacts. Katrin Flikschuh is Professor of Political Theory, LSE. Gerard Lyons (@DrGerardLyons) is Chief Economic Advisor to the Mayor of London. Danielle Sands (@DanielleCSands) is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Forum for European Philosophy Fellow. The Forum for European Philosophy (@ForumPhilosophy) is an educational charity that organises a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.
