The 2013 Jean Monnet Conference

The 2013 Jean Monnet Conference

November 2013

Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium

The main focus of the 2013 Jean Monnet Conference had been on the political implications of European integration and the move towards further political union.

The conference was  attended by 400 political decision-makers, Jean Monnet professors, top academics, and experts, as well as the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. The attendants sought to determine whether the necessary economic, political, and cultural pre-requisites for further political union had been met. The main conclusion of the conference was that more European integration is needed, and that efforts have to be made to identify the most appropriate means of achieving it.