Churchill Symposia & Lectures
The annual Churchill Symposium was launched in 1996 on the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's speech in Zurich. It is organized annually by the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich with the generous support of Julius Baer and in cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Foreign Studies and the British Embassy in Bern. Renowned guests from international politics and business are invited to give lectures and discuss current topics of European integration at this exclusive event. Since 2005, the symposium has been supplemented by the annual public «Churchill Special Lectures», at which high-ranking representatives of international politics address European policy topics.
Churchill Lecture 2021
Jean Asselborn
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Luxembourg
«Leidet Europa unter einem Werteverlust?»
Here you can find the recording of the lecture:
For more Information: Churchill Lecture 2021
During previous Churchill Symposia and Lectures, the Europa Institut has already been able to welcome some of the most prominent representatives of international politics and business, including for example, Romano Prodi, Henry Kissinger, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Viktor Yushchenko, Helmut Kohl, Josef Ackermann, Wolfgang Schäuble, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Doris Leuthard, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, José Manuel Barroso, Fürst Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein, Petro Poroschenko, Jean-Claude Junker, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing und Mark Rutte.
Churchill in Zurich 1946
In 1946 Winston Churchill laid out his vision for how Europe could rise from the devastation of World War II and rebuild itself as a peaceful, secure, and prosperous continent. Churchill concluded his famous speech with the exhortation, «Let Europe Arise!» The speech was of visionary power and is often seen as initiating the process of European integration. Sir Winston Churchill emphasized the importance of overcoming Franco-German antagonism to create a peaceful Europe, and he called for a kind of «United States of Europe».
Supported by Julius Bär
Julius Baer is proud to be the partner of the EIZ for the Churchill events. It is an excellent platform to address and discuss the position, development and future of Europe and build on the visionary power of Sir Winston Churchill. In today’s open and interconnected world, continuous dialogue is ever more important.