Upcoming Events (POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
On Wednesday 19 February 2020, IES PhD candidate Antonios Nestoras defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Belonging to the West? Geopolitical Mythmaking in Modern Greece from the Enlightenment to the Euro-crisis. 
Congratulations to the newly elected Croatian president, Mr. Zoran Milanović! He is the latest example of alumni from the Advanced Master Programme on International Legal Cooperation (known today as 
In December 2016, the Horizon 2020 project “COP21: Results, Implications, Pathways and Policies for Low-Emissions European Societies (COP21-RIPPLES)” officially started. The project was running for three years, until November 2019 and it was coordinated by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris. The project aimed to provide interdisciplinary analysis of the conditions of EU climate policy in the strategic context of the Paris climate change agreement concluded in 2015.
The 'European Union in International Affairs' (#EUIA20) has taken a next step in its organisation. It has accepted or rejected paper and panel proposals based on a thorough blind review process involving the members of our national and international steering committees. Each proposal was reviewed anonymously by at least two experts and graded independently each time, taking into account scientific quality, novelty and fit with the conference theme. The overall acceptance rate was 51 percent. #EUIA20 will take place from 27-29 May 2020. Regular updates on the organisation are provided at the conference 
Following the decision of the National Security Council, the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will make the following adjustments to its organisation from Friday 13 March 24:00 until 19 April 2020. The IES will not close but will go completely digital. As of Monday 16 March 2020, all classes will be offered in an online format. The new regulations imply that visits are no longer possible for the time being. Please note that the IES remains operational and information will be provided through alternative ways. Should you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us by 
EuroSim is an annual international simulation of the EU bringing together over 200 students and faculty from more than 20 colleges and universities in the US and Europe. As an active member and a host of this event in 2018 in Belgium, the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel will select and sponsor 10 students across its LLM in International and European Law, Advanced Master in European Integration, and Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy Making programmes of the 2020-21 academic year to become a part of its delegation for EuroSim2021. 
On 18 and 19 November 2019, the Institute for European Studies of the VUB convened a closed-door expert meeting and a public roundtable on current challenges to extended deterrence in Europe and East Asia. The closed-door meeting on 18 November was attended by a number of policy-makers and experts from Europe and East Asia, and held under the Chatham House rule. Experts discussed the future of extended deterrence in Europe and East Asia from the perspective of the US allies.
On 13 February 2020, IES President Karel De Gucht delivered a speech on the future relationship between the EU and the UK at the University of Warwick’s premises at the Shard in London, where this prestigious UK university’s Business School is located. In his speech, Mr De Gucht put to the audience that even though few people expected the road to withdrawal to be as long and as bumpy as it actually was, that was the easy part. 
Planning your summer 2020? - Join this year’s Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy-making at the Institute for European Studies, VUB and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Explore both the old and the new centre of Diplomacy in Europe with this summer school. The intensive two-week programme is held one week in Brussels and one week in Vienna from Monday 6 to Friday 17 July 2020. 2020 Summer School theme is Analysing human security in today’s EU. Application is open! Don't miss the early-bird deadline of 15 March to get a 10% discount on the tuition fee! 
While EU-South Korea relations have attracted growing attention in recent years, the relationship between key EU member states and the Asian country remains underexplored. To remedy that, the KF-VUB Korea Chair has now issued a new report thatdescribes and analyses the recent evolution of the relationship between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Sweden, on the one hand, and South Korea on the other. The report covers the areas of economic relations, security relations, bilateral relations and North Korea, and cultural relations. Find out what its main conclusions are! IES in the media...
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Paolo Pasimeni
COVID-19 and the Old Consensus
24 Mar 2020
In: The Progressive Post
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Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Missile tests and meetings: North Korea signals confidence in face of coronavirus
23 Mar 2020
In: Reuters
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Ramon Pacheco Pardo
For Singapore's next leaders, coronavirus is only half the battle
23 Mar 2020
In: Nikkei Asian Review
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Alexandra Mihai
COVID-19 BLOG
23 Mar 2020
In: SGOC
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The European Commission published a feasibility study on the technological options and the possible “governance framework” necessary for the deployment and management of the Global Internet Policy Observatory.
The SOURCE Network of Excellence on societal security organized a sector survey meeting with high-ranking experts from different fields at the VUB on 5 June 2014. About 20 invited representatives from different professions and institutions, including partners of the SOURCE consortium discussed a number of security problems and solutions, following a structured approach of decision support for security solutions, based on the DESSI method.
The IES was present for the successful kick-off meeting of the TEMPUS project 'Innovating Teaching and Learning of European Studies' (INOTLES) on 12 February in Maastricht. The partners are now working on the first substantive Work Package aimed at mapping the state of the art in teaching European Studies.The IES is one of nine partners of the consortium led by the University of Maastricht and involving universities from the UK, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
IES is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the 