You are invited to attend two special lectures by His Imperial & Royal Highness Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, President of the Pan-European Union, Member of the European Parliament (1995-1999).
Intangible Cultural Property
Monday November 17, 2008
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Moot Court Room
European Integration
Tuesday November 18, 2008
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Bannan 142
The creation of the European Community more than 50 years ago had not only economic reasons and the wish to overcome the causes of the Second World War. It was also the logical response to the first effects of globalization. The European institutions are taking on the tasks of the constitutional body of a mature democracy – without having a constitution or being a traditional state. This has, of course, also effect on the traditional perception of sovereignty. Sovereign rights get shifted from the state to the Union, but, according to the principle of subsidiarity, also to smaller units like region or community. The role of the traditional state changes, not only in Europe but all over the world, and the EU is effectively a test bed for that new structure.
Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, born 1961 in Bavaria, Germany has since 1981 lived in Salzburg, Austria. Since 1987 Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen has been President of the Pan-European Union; from 1996 to 1999 member of the European Parliament; Captain (Hauptmann) in the Austrian Air Force. Archduke Karl of Austria is the grandson of the last Austrian emperor Charles I (Blessed Charles) after on 3 October 2004 being beatified by Pope John Paul II (Beatification is the 3 of 4 steps to declare a deceased person to be a Saint). His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Karl is head of the Austrian branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Ordre de la Toison d’Or).
