Graham Avery - EUCN European in Residence
The inaugural EUCN European in Residence was Mr Graham Avery, formerly a Director in the European Commission (see biographical notes) (pdf, 81kb). Hosted, and for the most part based, at the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, in the five weeks Mr Avery was in New Zealand he was able to travel widely, paying visits to the Universities of Otago, Lincoln, Victoria and Auckland, meeting members of the EUCN and giving seminars at each university.
As well as offering valuable input at many of the EUCN Partner Institutions, Mr Avery also achieved quite substantial access to the media, at both a national and local level and in many different fora:
- 28 May 2006: 'Graham Avery looks at the future for the ever-expanding European Union', National Radio - Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw
- 31 May 2006: ASB Business - TV1, interview with Mr Graham Avery
- 01 June 2006: 'Former European Commission director brings expertise to NCRE', UC Chronicle, vol. 41-9, p. 4
- 01 June 2006: 'EU reforming policies - slowly Graham Avery', by Tom McKinlay, based on a presentation by Mr Graham Avery, The Otago Daily Times
- 03 June 2006: 'Europe's south seas strategy', by Ruth Berry, interview with Mr Graham Avery, The New Zealand Herald
- 09 June 2006: 'Extraordinary EU success despite growing pains', by Venkat Raman, The National Business Review - 9 June 2006 : 20-01
As the EUCN European in Residence position is also designed to provide the visiting fellow with direct policy involvement, Mr Avery met with government representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Research Science and Technology.
While based at the Centre, he also researched and wrote on subjects such as the expansion of the European Union (past and future); the institutional and constitutional development of the EU; the role of the EU as an actor in foreign policy; and, agricultural policy in the EU and elsewhere.
EUCN European in Residence 2006 - Report of Graham Avery
EUCN European in Residence 2006 - Report of Graham Avery (.pdf, 140kb)
Annex 3 of Avery Report NZ (Interview UC Chronicle 1.6.2006) (.bmp, 59kb)
Annex 4 of Avery Report NZ (Article Nat. Business Review 9.6.2006) (.bmp, 56kb)
