04/03/2010 Guest lectures

Within the framework of the course EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy and internationalisation@home, academics in the field of enlargement and neighbourhood policies will visit the centre for EU Studies and give a lecture about their research topic. For more information, see the link below

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01/03/2010 Special issue of EFAR on the social dimension of EU Trade Policies

European Foreign Affairs Review published a special issue (2009, 14, 5) on the social dimension of European Union Trade Policies with articles of Jan Orbie and Fabienne Bossuyt. For further details, see the website of Kluwer Law International below.

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01/03/2010 EU and the Western Balkans in retrospective and perspective!? -Between Limbo and Enlargement Fatigue

The Centre for EU-Studies in cooperation with the European University of Tirana and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (University of Manchester) is organizing a conference on the relations between EU and the Western Balkans. The conference will take place in Tirana on March 15, 2010. For further details, please see the agenda/link below.

Bijlage: Conference - programme.pdf

22/12/2009 Karel Verleye Prize

The Karel Verleye Prize 2009 - 2nd and 3th place - is awarded to two students of the UGent, Remko Wouters and Guillaume Van der Loo, who have written the best thesis on the forgotten factors of European integration.

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27/11/2009 Monday evening lecture

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence kindly invites you on the monday evening lecture of the Guyanese ambassador, entitled "The European Union as a trade and development actor: a Guyanese perspective on the EPA process". The lecture takes place on Monday December the 8th at the Province of East-Flanders, Gouvernmentstraat 22-24, 9000 Gent. To attend the lecture, please reply to Vanessa Schockaert (Vanessa.Schockaert@oost-vlaanderen.be or 09/267.70.17).

Bijlage: Invitation JML Ambassador Gomes.pdf

12/08/2009 New book by Jan Orbie and Gerrit Faber (eds.)

"Beyond Market Access for Economic Development. EU-Africa relations in transition." This volume examines the consequences of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

link: more information under new publications

01/04/2009 The EU’s Promotion of “Regional Cooperation” in the South Caucasus

The EU’s Promotion of “Regional Cooperation” in the South Caucasus, Syuzanna Vasilyan

link: read the essay

02/03/2009 Europe's global role now available in paperback

Europe's global role, External Policies of the European Union edited by Professor Jan Orbie is now available in paperback.

link: Ashgate

Bijlage: Europe's Global Role Pbk March 2009.pdf

12/02/2009 Article Petra Huyst in JCER

"We have made Europe, now we have to make Europeans." Researching European Identity Among Flemish Youths", JCER (Journal of Contemporary European Research) Vol 4, No 4 (2008) , Special Issue - Media and Communication in Europe: Babel Revisited, 286-302.

15/01/2009 Comment Eline De Ridder on EUObserver

Domestic politics threaten Czech EU presidency...."The Czech government might survive the next six months, but little is needed to throw it off course."

link: Read the article

18/12/2008 New Publication Prof. Jan Orbie

The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization, How the EU influences the World Edited by Jan Orbie and Lisa Tortell

link: publication