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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The Art of Treaty Interpretation
Eva Kassoti, Asser Institute Monday 25 February 2019 16:30-17:30 – 50 George Square – G.05 The Europa Research Group is delighted to welcome Dr Eva Kassoti, from the Asser Institute, as the first visiting scholar of this calendar year. In a shift west and south from our previous events, she …
The sea-crosser’s paradox: how drowning at sea has become a crime control strategy and why human rights do nothing about it
Edinburgh Europa Research Group Seminar Francesca Soliman, Edinburgh School of Law 22 November 2017, 16:00-17-00, Seminar Room 4 Chrystal Macmillan Building Discussant: Jill Poeggel, UoE. Politics Abstract The increasingly common framing of migration through a criminal lens has turned migration control into a form of crime prevention which decreases legal safeguards and yet attracts limited …
What Triggers the Intention to Use the European Citizens’ Initiative? – Europa Research Group Seminar 26 Sept 2017
What Triggers the Intention to Use the European Citizens’ Initiative? The Role of Benefits, Values and Efficacy A presentation by Sergiu Gherghina of the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow The Europa Research group is pleased to be holding its first seminar of the academic year on the Tuesday the 26 September 2017, 16:00-17:00 “What …
Between Rhetoric and Practice: The EU’s trade policy in situations of contested sovereignty
Dr Eva Kassoti Lecturer in Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences Joint ad hoc event with the International Law Discussion Group Friday 13 October 2017 2pm to 3pm 50 George Square Room G.06 The EU’s identity as a global actor is firmly anchored in a distinct normative and political agenda. Apart from an …