The Institute for European Studies cordially invites you to the PhD defence of Katja Biedenkopf: "Policy Recycling? The External Effects of EU Environmental Legislation on the United States"

Katja Biedenkopf prepared her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür, Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies. The defence will take place on Monday, 6 February 2012, 16:00h in the conference rooms Rome & Lisbon at the Institute for European Studies. It will be followed by a reception.

Please RVSP by sending an email to katja.biedenkopf@vub.ac.be, before 1 February

by Dr. Magdalena Sapala

The procedure for establishing the multiannual budgets, introduced in the EU in 1988, was to be a remedy to the growing difficulty in negotiating the annual budgets, the guarantee of fiscal discipline and the stable framework for important European long-term projects. It is evident however, that despite the use of this method, the negotiations of both - annual and multiannual budgets - are still very difficult. In recent years the problem has even worsened.

'Quo vadis EU: Foreign Policy Vehicles and Near Neighbourhood'
by: Prof. Dr. Amelia Hadfield, Prof. Dr. Joachim Koops, Prof. Dr. Selen Gueren and Dr. Alexander Mattelaer
In addition to major geopolitical transformations of enlargement, and the development of the European Neighbourhood Policy (including a speciaized look at the contemporary role of migration policy within the context of the Arab Spring) this third Jean Monnet Webinar examines the current role of EU trade and development policy, as well as reviewing EU's relations with NATO.

This webinar is the first session of the series of webinars "DECODING THE EU: EU INSTITUTIONS AND DECISION-MAKING IES ONLINE COURSE" which provides advanced understanding of the EU institutions and decision-making.
During this webinar you will learn about the role, composition and functioning of the European Commission and understand its power as policy initiator.

This webinar is the fourth and last session of the series of webinars "DECODING THE EU: EU INSTITUTIONS AND DECISION-MAKING IES ONLINE COURSE" which provides advanced understanding of the EU institutions and decision-making.
This webinar is a guide to the EU decision-making procedure, with a focus on the ordinary legislative procedure (former co-decision)