Category: Events

The European Union and the Brexit Negotiations

Invitation to Attend: ‘The EU and the Brexit Negotiations’ Tuesday 3 October | 18:00-19:30 | Hybrid | FREE Brexit has dominated headlines in the UK for years. Yet the perspective has often been centred on British politics, leaving a big part of the story untold. How did the EU respond to the Brexit vote? How did EU principles …

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Europeanisation and Policy Learning – PhD Workshop 23 April 2020

The University of Edinburgh’s FUTURES Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Europa Institute are delighted to convene a one-day PhD Workshop on ‘Europeanisation and Policy Learning’. Taking place on 23 April 2020, the workshop will provide a venue for PhD candidates to share their work-in-progress in a constructive and interdisciplinary setting. Participants will be given …

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‘Offending the Audience’ & Offending Victims?

The awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke for his ‘influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experien ce’ has reignited debates about the author’s relationship with Serbian nationalism during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. The controversy re-emerges at a time when right-wing …

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European Union Funds in Central and Eastern Europe

    Dr Neculai-Cristian Surubaru, University of Strathclyde Wednesday 27 February 2019 16:30-18:00 – 2.15, Appleton Tower     Ever wondered what the effect has been of the EU’s much touted ‘structural funds’? Have questions about how the states of Central and Eastern Europe have absorbed, integrated, and attempted to productively use EU funding to …

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