EU enlargement
Foreign Affairs Committee to hear evidence from Baroness Ashton
9 November 2011
The Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a one-off evidence session for its rolling inquiry into "EU Enlargement and Foreign Policy". This will be the first time that the High Representative has given evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee since she took up her post on 1 December 2009
Witness
At 5.00 pm, Monday 21 November, Wilson Room, Portcullis House
- Baroness Ashton of Upholland, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission
The session is likely to focus on institutional issues concerning EU external policy structures under the Lisbon Treaty, and EU-related aspects of two of the Committee’s other current inquiries, into "British Foreign Policy and the ‘Arab Spring’: the transition to democracy", and "UK-Turkey Relations and Turkey's Regional Role".