Very small states in continental Europe are not EU members yet have crafted successive strategies of close cooperation with the EU. Liechtenstein is a member of the EEA, and Andorra and San Marino have concluded comprehensive association agreements that will soon enter into force. Dr Minoves negotiated the 2004 agreements between Andorra and the EU and initiated a paragraph of the Lisbon treaty that created a juridical basis for specific agreements between the EU and small states (declaration 3 on article 8). In his lecture he will analyse the logic behind the asymptotic approaches of European small states to the EU. He will explain the cautious negotiations by Andorra from the Custom Union of 1990, the treaty of cooperation of 2004, the monetary agreement of 2011, to the recent conclusion of an extensive association agreement.
Dr Juli Minoves-Triquell is a Full Professor  and Director of the International Studies Institute of the University of La Verne, California, and President (Rector) elect of the University of Andorra. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University and a degree in economics from the University of Fribourg. In 2022 he was elected as a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (Institute of Spain). He has served his country, Andorra, as a diplomat and politician, notably as first ambassador to the United Nations, to the Kingdom of Spain and to the United Kingdom, as well as Foreign Minister (2001-2007). From 2014 to 2018 he was the 13th President of Liberal International, the world federation of liberal democratic political parties, founded at Oxford University in 1947.