CEELBAS Research Fellow Nat Copsey and fellow Birmingham academic Carolyn Moore have been awarded €30 000 by the European Commission for the organisation of a high level two day conference at the University of Birmingham on the future of Europe. “Bringing the Policy Back In: A Substantive Agenda for the New Union” will provide a forum for academic-practitioner dialogue, debate and interchange of ideas. The emphasis of this conference is placed firmly on policy analysis, addressing the future scope and reach of key EU policy areas in the following four areas:  Energy and Climate Change; the EU’s Role in the World; Migration; Social and Welfare Standards across the EU; Reform of the Single Market: priorities, policy and action; and the enlargement of the euro area. More detailed information will be available from autumn 2008.