RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term: 'Destination: Europe'
Convenors: Cathryn Costello and Stephanie Motz
This seminar series complements Issue 51 of Forced Migration Review, published on 5 January 2016 and also titled 'Destination: Europe'.
about this seminar
The current asylum crisis underlines the limits of European unity that have been made visible by the diversity and evolution of European responses to this crisis since the beginning of 2014. First indifferent, the European Union is now attempting to set up a coordinated response and to define a common position on asylum and refugee protection. Though these are part of a system of European core values, they have been challenged lately by the context of political, economic and identity uncertainty currently prevailing in Europe.
about the speaker
Pascal Brice is a graduate of IEP Paris, holds a DEA in applied economics and is a former student of the National Administration School. He began his diplomatic career as first secretary to the Embassy of France in Morocco before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the direction of European Cooperation. He then served as technical adviser to Louis Le Pensec and Jean Glavany at the Ministry of Agriculture, and to Hubert Védrine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. M. Brice became Deputy Director of the common policies of the European Union at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002, and served as Consul General of France in Barcelona from 2006 to 2010 before joining the Court of Auditors. Brice coordinated the "International" division of Hollande's campaign team during the presidential election of 2012. He was Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister of Economy and Finance and the office of the Minister of Foreign Trade in 2012, and has served as an ad hoc Foreign Affairs Adviser since July 2012. In December 2012 he was appointed Director General of the 'French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons' (OFPRA).