Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio