- New podcast! The Southern Neighbourhood
Listen to the second episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe with Charelle and Brendan.
- Jean Monnet lecture with European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra
Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 10.30-12.30
Location: Turnzaal, FASoS
- New podcast online! The Eastern Neighbourhood
Listen to the first episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe!
Charelle and Brendan are excited to share that they are back for a new season of Understanding Europe with a three part series on Democracy Promotion in the EU. Go over and have a listen!
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast here.
- Save the date! 07th February: “The Crime of Solidarity”
SAVE THE DATE! 07th FEBRUARY, “THE CRIME OF SOLIDARITY”
On February 7th, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Francesco Tava as guest speaker for the second Jean Monnet lecture of this academic year. Francesco Tava is Associate Professor and head of the BA philosophy at UWE, Bristol. His research is focussing on political philosophy, applied ethics, and phenomenology, with an emphasis on political solidarity in Europe.
This lecture will be about the “Crime of Solidarity”. Afterwards, we invite you to a discussion with the lecturer.
The lecture will take place at the Spiegelzaal at FASoS, GG 80-82 from 18.30 to 20.00. - Save the date! 26 January | Roundtable in honour of professors Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), we are delighted to award honorary doctorates to Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. Dr. Gary Marks for their joint research on multi-level governance, particularly in the context of European integration.
Professors Hooghe and Marks will receive their honorary doctorates in the St. Janskerk during the celebration of the 48th Dies Natalis of Maastricht University on Friday 26 January (afternoon). In the morning, we will organize a roundtable in their honour at our faculty. This will be an opportunity to meet both laureates and for FASoS colleagues to reflect on the importance of their research. Please join us for this celebration.
Programme – Friday 26 January
10:40 Welcome with coffee and tea
11:00 Roundtable on the importance of multi-level governance
Chair: Hylke Dijkstra
- Christine Neuhold
- Paul Stephenson
- Soetkin Verhaegen
- Iskander de Bruycker
11:30 Discussion with the audience
Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker
- Responses by professors Hooghe and Marks
- Initial questions by students from the Research Master European Studies
- Questions and answers
12:30 Sandwich lunch at FASoS
The programme will take place at the Turnzaal, FASoS.
Registration
Please register for this roundtable at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences via this link: https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5hydOaJ6iROwyV0
Note: There is a separate registration for the celebration of the Dies Natalis in the St. Janskerk in the afternoon of 26 January (the University has send a registration link via email).
About the laureates
Professors Hooghe and Marks originally coined the concept of multi-level governance in the early 1990s. Their study of the unraveling of the central state, resulting in increased regional, European and international authority, fundamentally shapes our understanding of European Studies today. The study of politicisation, the theory of postfunctionalism, and their recent work on transnational cleavages are major scholarly innovations that follow from their thirty-year long research agenda. Their work is critically important for us in Maastricht and as it gives us insight into European integration, international organisations, but also devolution and regional governance. What is more, professors Hooghe and Marks have been massively supportive of a new generation of European Studies scholars.
On Tuesday, 22nd of March 2022, CERiM had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Massouda Jalal to deliver a Jean Monnet Lecture in Maastricht. The lecture, The Current Situation of Afghanistan and Its Impact on Women happened at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Dr. Massouda Jalal has been an active independent politician in Afghanistan for the last 26 years, who served as Minister of Women’s Affairs and head of Commission for Elimination of Violence against Women from October 2004 to 2006. In 2004, she became the first and only woman candidate in 5000 years of Afghanistan history to run in the Afghan presidential elections. She is titled in recent Afghan history as the mother of Afghan democracy.
Dr. Jalal left the cabinet in 2006 and has since vocally criticized the Karzai and Ghani governments for not significantly advancing the social position of women. She founded the Jalal Foundation as a leading civil society organization and network for the promotion of peace, human rights, women’s rights and democracy from 2006 up to now.
She also has an academic background as a professor at Kabul Medical University and served in leadership positions in the UN World Food Programme and UNHCR offices in Afghanistan, leading women and health programmes during the nineties.
Dr. Jalal has received numerous awards nationally and internationally, and has published books and articles on mainly rights, democracy, peace and security. An example is her book Hanging by a Thread. After the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, Dr. Jalal was forced to go into exile to the Netherlands.
23 March 2022
The logic and nonsense of Putin’s war
As Russia’s geopolitical isolation deepens and economic sanctions begin to bite hard, one wonders what possessed Vladimir Putin to start his war in Ukraine? Will international sanctions help end the violence? And is there still a way to deescalate?
Jean Monnet Chair, Giselle Bosse, spoke to Florian Raith about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
You can read the article here.
26 January 2022
CERiM Awards winners (3rd edition)
The Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM) is happy to announce that awarded a special prize of €1000 to Clara Weinhardt (Politics Department, UM), Karsten Mau (SBE, UM) and Jens Hillebrand Pohl (Law, UM/CELIS Institute) for their contribution to outstanding interdisciplinary research in European Studies.
The book chapter on “The EU as a geoeconomic actor? A review of recent European trade and investment policies” combines expertise and methods from three disciplines (political science, economics, and law) and is forthcoming in “Geoeconomics in a Changing Global Order”, edited by Milan Babic, Adam D. Dixon, Imogen T. Liu (Palgrave IPE Series).
More information about the winners’ research can be found here.
22 November 2021
Jean Monnet Lecture: Štefan Füle
On Thursday, 2nd of December, the former European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Mr. Štefan Füle delivered the 2nd Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year. The lecture, “The European Union’s Foreign Actorness in its Neighbourhood: Perceptions and Reality”, was organized in partnership with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the Jean Monnet CHANCE Chair at Maastricht University. Due to the coronavirus measures, this was an online lecture.
Mr. Štefan Füle served as the Minister for European Affairs during the Czech Presidency of the European Union in 2009. Subsequently, he served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy from February 2010 to October 2014.
After his mandate at the European Commission expired, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as Special Envoy for the OSCE and the Western Balkans until October 2017.
Mr. Füle has also worked in the private sector as a Member of the Supervisory Board at the CEFC Group and as Advisor to CITIC Europe Holdings. After a period as Chairman of the Administrative Board of the Czech China Chamber for Cooperation, he is currently an Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan.
The lecture was recorded and you can find the video here.
14 October 2021
Jean Monnet Lecture: Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
On Tuesday, 9th of November, the current Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries at the European Commission, Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius delivered the 1st Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year. The lecture, The Economic Logic behind the European Green Deal: benefits of the green transition for the society of tomorrow, happened at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Mr. Sinkevičius is a Lithuanian politician who, in 2016, was elected to the Parliament and later in 2017, was appointed Minister of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania. As a Minister, Mr. Sinkevičius worked towards many innovative projects, such as Artificial Intelligence Strategy – which placed Lithuania amongst the first EU countries to develop a national AI strategy – as well as The Women Go Tech initiative, the goal of which was to increase the participation of women in IT and engineering in Lithuania.
9 February 2021
Recording of Jean Monnet Lecture with Marietje Schaake now available!
The lecture was recorded and you can find the video here.
For more information on the lecture itself or on CERiM future events, you can visit our webpages!
3 March 2020
Local and regional authorities: the third dimension of the European Union.
Karl-Heiz LAMBERTZ, former President of the European Committee of the Regions, will give a keynote speech about the local and regional authorities of the European Union followed by a debate session. Lambertz was elected as President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in July 2017 after serving a two and a half year term as First Vice-President. He is also President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Previous to the lecture, a reception will be hosted at 17:45.
Joint lecture with the Province of Limburg & Maastricht Working on Europe (MWoE).
17 February 2020
Jean Monnet lecture: Matthias Wismar
His main areas of interest are health policy, politics and governance; civil society and health; European integration, health and health systems; the health workforce; and health in all policies.
He holds a doctorate in political science from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and has also studied at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom) and Nuffield College, Oxford University (United Kingdom). Before joining the Observatory, he was heading a health policy research unit at Hannover Medical School (Germany)
16 December 2019
New article for CERiM Online Paper Serie out!
Read more about it here: a new article for the CERiM Online Paper Series is out!
Two publications by young scholars today, stay tuned for more!
Annalisa Volpato writes about the judicial review of the acts of EU agencies, while Paul Dermine does an aftermath of the Commission’s December Package, also known as the ‘Saint Nicholas’ package.
More papers will be published soon, so keep posted!
Shaping Parliamentary Democracy – Jean-Monnet lecture with Professor Michael Shackleton
The book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019. The interviews capture the memories of the MEPs about their own roles and their assessment of what the parliament achieved in developing a European parliamentary democracy in the forty years following the first direct elections.
7 December 2019
Eastern Partnership Workshop
On the 6-7 June 2019 – 10 years later – this conference addressed these issues by asking in how far the EaP (in its current form) has achieved a strengthening of relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours, and invited to reflect on what conceptual and policy tools are required in the future to define the EU’s relations with the six EaP countries. A special emphasis was placed on how (or whether?) to reconcile seemingly conflicting policy paradigms, such as the promotion of ‘values’, such as democracy, human rights and civil society versus ‘pragmatic’ policy based on ensuring stability, tensions between normative/utilitarian principles and geopolitical and geo-economic interests.
Giselle Bosse and Andrea Ott gathered scholars from all over Europe in a two-days workshop to provide a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of the EaP. Panels focused on (i) the existing legal and institutional framework(s), as well as financial instruments and their suitability for the challenges faced by the EU in the future; (ii) the policy dimensions of the EaP, (iii) concrete bilateral relations and perspectives from the EaP countries and (iv) critical reflections on security and geopolitics, including policy recommendations.
25 September 2019
New Jean Monnet Research Network on Single Market Integration
The network, coordinated by Maastricht, seeks to promote new research and teaching on contemporary developments of the single market in the areas of defense, the digital market, finance and energy. It does so through the creation of new courses at the involved universities, the publication of policy papers and special training through the participating think tanks, and joint publications in academic journals. These deliverables are developed over a series of yearly conferences and workshops, international exchanges, and focused research.
- New podcast! The Southern Neighbourhood
Listen to the second episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe with Charelle and Brendan.
- Jean Monnet lecture with European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra
Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 10.30-12.30
Location: Turnzaal, FASoS
- New podcast online! The Eastern Neighbourhood
Listen to the first episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe!
Charelle and Brendan are excited to share that they are back for a new season of Understanding Europe with a three part series on Democracy Promotion in the EU. Go over and have a listen!
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast here.
- Save the date! 07th February: “The Crime of Solidarity”
SAVE THE DATE! 07th FEBRUARY, “THE CRIME OF SOLIDARITY”
On February 7th, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Francesco Tava as guest speaker for the second Jean Monnet lecture of this academic year. Francesco Tava is Associate Professor and head of the BA philosophy at UWE, Bristol. His research is focussing on political philosophy, applied ethics, and phenomenology, with an emphasis on political solidarity in Europe.
This lecture will be about the “Crime of Solidarity”. Afterwards, we invite you to a discussion with the lecturer.
The lecture will take place at the Spiegelzaal at FASoS, GG 80-82 from 18.30 to 20.00. - Save the date! 26 January | Roundtable in honour of professors Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), we are delighted to award honorary doctorates to Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. Dr. Gary Marks for their joint research on multi-level governance, particularly in the context of European integration.
Professors Hooghe and Marks will receive their honorary doctorates in the St. Janskerk during the celebration of the 48th Dies Natalis of Maastricht University on Friday 26 January (afternoon). In the morning, we will organize a roundtable in their honour at our faculty. This will be an opportunity to meet both laureates and for FASoS colleagues to reflect on the importance of their research. Please join us for this celebration.
Programme – Friday 26 January
10:40 Welcome with coffee and tea
11:00 Roundtable on the importance of multi-level governance
Chair: Hylke Dijkstra
- Christine Neuhold
- Paul Stephenson
- Soetkin Verhaegen
- Iskander de Bruycker
11:30 Discussion with the audience
Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker
- Responses by professors Hooghe and Marks
- Initial questions by students from the Research Master European Studies
- Questions and answers
12:30 Sandwich lunch at FASoS
The programme will take place at the Turnzaal, FASoS.
Registration
Please register for this roundtable at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences via this link: https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5hydOaJ6iROwyV0
Note: There is a separate registration for the celebration of the Dies Natalis in the St. Janskerk in the afternoon of 26 January (the University has send a registration link via email).
About the laureates
Professors Hooghe and Marks originally coined the concept of multi-level governance in the early 1990s. Their study of the unraveling of the central state, resulting in increased regional, European and international authority, fundamentally shapes our understanding of European Studies today. The study of politicisation, the theory of postfunctionalism, and their recent work on transnational cleavages are major scholarly innovations that follow from their thirty-year long research agenda. Their work is critically important for us in Maastricht and as it gives us insight into European integration, international organisations, but also devolution and regional governance. What is more, professors Hooghe and Marks have been massively supportive of a new generation of European Studies scholars.
- New podcast! The Southern Neighbourhood
Listen to the second episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe with Charelle and Brendan.
- Jean Monnet lecture with European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra
Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 10.30-12.30
Location: Turnzaal, FASoS
- New podcast online! The Eastern Neighbourhood
Listen to the first episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe!
Charelle and Brendan are excited to share that they are back for a new season of Understanding Europe with a three part series on Democracy Promotion in the EU. Go over and have a listen!
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast here.
- Save the date! 07th February: “The Crime of Solidarity”
SAVE THE DATE! 07th FEBRUARY, “THE CRIME OF SOLIDARITY”
On February 7th, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Francesco Tava as guest speaker for the second Jean Monnet lecture of this academic year. Francesco Tava is Associate Professor and head of the BA philosophy at UWE, Bristol. His research is focussing on political philosophy, applied ethics, and phenomenology, with an emphasis on political solidarity in Europe.
This lecture will be about the “Crime of Solidarity”. Afterwards, we invite you to a discussion with the lecturer.
The lecture will take place at the Spiegelzaal at FASoS, GG 80-82 from 18.30 to 20.00. - Save the date! 26 January | Roundtable in honour of professors Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), we are delighted to award honorary doctorates to Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. Dr. Gary Marks for their joint research on multi-level governance, particularly in the context of European integration.
Professors Hooghe and Marks will receive their honorary doctorates in the St. Janskerk during the celebration of the 48th Dies Natalis of Maastricht University on Friday 26 January (afternoon). In the morning, we will organize a roundtable in their honour at our faculty. This will be an opportunity to meet both laureates and for FASoS colleagues to reflect on the importance of their research. Please join us for this celebration.
Programme – Friday 26 January
10:40 Welcome with coffee and tea
11:00 Roundtable on the importance of multi-level governance
Chair: Hylke Dijkstra
- Christine Neuhold
- Paul Stephenson
- Soetkin Verhaegen
- Iskander de Bruycker
11:30 Discussion with the audience
Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker
- Responses by professors Hooghe and Marks
- Initial questions by students from the Research Master European Studies
- Questions and answers
12:30 Sandwich lunch at FASoS
The programme will take place at the Turnzaal, FASoS.
Registration
Please register for this roundtable at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences via this link: https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5hydOaJ6iROwyV0
Note: There is a separate registration for the celebration of the Dies Natalis in the St. Janskerk in the afternoon of 26 January (the University has send a registration link via email).
About the laureates
Professors Hooghe and Marks originally coined the concept of multi-level governance in the early 1990s. Their study of the unraveling of the central state, resulting in increased regional, European and international authority, fundamentally shapes our understanding of European Studies today. The study of politicisation, the theory of postfunctionalism, and their recent work on transnational cleavages are major scholarly innovations that follow from their thirty-year long research agenda. Their work is critically important for us in Maastricht and as it gives us insight into European integration, international organisations, but also devolution and regional governance. What is more, professors Hooghe and Marks have been massively supportive of a new generation of European Studies scholars.
- New video! Interview with Jarl Frijs-Madsen
On September 13th 2023, CERiM had the pleasure of welcoming Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen to deliver the first Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year under the title: “The European Union in a New World Order”.
Jarl Frijs-Madsen is the Danish ambassador to the Netherlands since 2021. He has been ambassador to Norway and Consul General in New York. Previously, Frijs-Madsen was Under-Secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, he worked as a futurist and Associated Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
Watch the interview with him here.
- Jean Monnet lecture with Jarl Frijs-Madsen
On September 13th 2023, CERiM will have the pleasure of welcoming Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen to deliver the first Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year under the title: “The European Union in a New World Order”.
Jarl Frijs-Madsen is the Danish ambassador to the Netherlands since 2021. He has been ambassador to Norway and Consul General in New York. Previously, Frijs-Madsen was Under-Secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, he worked as a futurist and Associated Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
The lecture will take place in the Spiegelzaal at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Grote Gracht 80-82, Maastricht from 18.30 to 20.00.
Register here.
- New podcast online! Looking back
The 10th and last episode of CERiM’s Understanding Europe is out now! This time, Charelle and Brendan talk about the different episodes that have been published this year, discussing how they link and what threads are pulled throughout them all. So if you haven’t yet had a chance to listen to this year’s episodes this is the place to start! A TL;DR if you will.
Listen to the newest episode of the podcast.
- New podcast online! A Decentered Perspective
A new podcast of the Understanding Europe series is published.
In this episode, Brendan and Charelle sit down with Assem Dandashly and Gergana Noutcheva to discuss the legitimacy of the EU as an external democracy promoter in its southern and eastern neighbourhood while internally it is dealing with a rule of law crisis in member states such as Poland, Hungary, Austria. Has this internal crisis affected the way the EU is perceived? Has it hindered its legitimacy as an international player? Join them as they unpack these questions!
Listen to the newest episode of the podcast here.
- New video online! Interview with Philomena Apiko
Our interview with head of AU-EU relations at The European Centre for Development Policy Management Philomena Apiko is online. Find the link to the video here.
Centre for European Research in Maastricht 