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SUMMARY:UNITED STATES - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN EU CENTER (EUC) - Robert EVANS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign EU Center (EUC) organized two major events: “17th Annual EU Day”\, a celebration of transatlantic relations and strives to promote a better understanding between the peoples of the US and the EU also featuring a roundtable discussion on the EU; “Researching and Teaching the EU: Best Practices and Current Trends in EU Scholarship — A Working Conference”\, an annual conference that brings together college faculty with the aim of increasing research on and teaching of the EU at universities and four-year and two-year colleges in Illinois and the American Midwest. \nRobert EVANS\, FMA member\, participated in these events.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”VISIT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS\nMission report” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%230027c6″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]There can’t be many universities anywhere in the world\, with their own airport. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one such institution. Situated some 220 km south of Chicago\, the university is one of the largest public colleges in the USA with nearly 50\, 000 students. The sprawling\, yet modern campus seems to engulf just about the whole of two small towns\, Urbana and Champaign in addition to being home to a very successful EU funded Jean Monnet institute. \nIt was their invitation\, to attend the institute’s twentieth anniversary conference\, on behalf of former MEPs\, that saw me land\, late one cold November evening at their own\, modest but convenient airport! \nAfter a long trip via Dallas\, some 1500 km to the south – I have never understood why it is cheaper to take two flights and fly over your eventual destination hours before you reach there – I was met at the airport by Sebnem Ozkan\, the centre’s associate director and one of my excellent hosts. \nThe University of Illinois is the only American University to offer a Masters course in European Studies and it was a real pleasure to talk with Dr Neil Vander Most\, Professor Kostas Kourtikakis and their engaging and well informed students. Questions covered a whole range of issues including the history of the EU\, but not surprisingly\, invariably came back to Brexit and why the British people voted to leave a successful union of 28 countries. \nAs part of their anniversary celebrations\, the EU’s ambassador the United States\, his excellency David O’Sullivan delivered a thought-provoking speech on ‘the State of the European Union’. In the ensuing roundtable there were plenty of questions about the evolving state of EU-US relations. As the conference coincided with the inconclusive American mid-term elections\, there were plenty of opportunities for comparisons and thoughts about the forthcoming European Parliament elections in 2019. These and other issues were also discussed when I was a studio guest for an interview with the local radio station\, Illinois Public Media. \nMy keynote speech on Saturday morning included my own personal thoughts on Brexit and how the then prime minister David Cameron badly mis-judged\, both the mood of the country and his own popularity. After eight years of austerity\, the lack-lustre ‘remain campaign’ gave the British people a rare chance to object to the EU and register a complaint anything else they fancied or didn’t fancy. There were obvious comparisons with Americans’ objections to President Trump but also warnings for other EU countries who fail to face head-on\, the concerns of the voters.  From the unrest in France to the rise of fringe or ‘populist parties’\, the EU can be the catalyst for negative voting. \nAfter a hectic four days\, I left Illinois for London to be present at the commemorations for the end of the first world war. Twenty million people died in the ‘war to end all wars’ which only preceded another brutal conflict just twenty years later. An awful testament to what happens when Europe is not united. Fortunately today’s liberal politicians and keen voters have more sense then our forefathers … I hope. \nMy sincere thanks to Professor Carla Santos and all at the University of Illinois for an excellent and stimulating few days and to the Former Members Association for their organisation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/usa-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-eu-center-euc-from-06-to-10-november-2018/
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SUMMARY:GERMANY - GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN - Michael HINDLEY
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n \nThe Georg-August University of Göttingen organized a talk with Michael HINDLEY\, FMA Member\, on the topic of Law and Policy-making in the EU and the conequences of BREXIT for the EU and Great Britiain. The programm at the university included lectures and follow-up discussions and debates with students. \nMission report: CAN THE EU SURVIVE BREXIT? \nI was extremely pleased to receive a second invitation to the Euroculture Centre at the University of Göttingen which I first visited in November 2016. I suggested an update on my last year’s title ‘Can the EU survive Brexit?’ Not simply an example of English ‘tongue-in-cheek’ humour\, but a warning that Brexit is not only an existential question for the UK\, but also one for the EU. \nCertainly the mood among the Masters Students in the three seminars I participated in was puzzlement and sadness about the UK leaving. There was some anxiety among a couple of UK students about their future status and questions from other EU students about their potential status post Brexit. \nMy last year’s visit coincided with the news that Donald Trump had won the Presidential race in the USA. That news was met by the same sadness and puzzlement as the Brexit decision. \nThis year’s visit came in the wake of the German general election which saw a sharp decline in the popularity of the two major parties (CDU/ CSU and SPD) and the rise of the anti-EU nationalists\, AfD. The fate \nA group of students from the Georg-August-University \nof Chancellor Angela Merkel\, widely seen as a stabilising force in the EU\, has become an anxious question. We are entering an increasingly uncertain period. The eastern EU states are increasingly sceptical\, even hostile to EU policy made in Brussels; witness the widening resentment against EU asylum policy. \n‘Europe’ is increasingly seen as the problem for nation states\, not the solution to national problems – a point the ‘More Europe’ advocates from Brussels fail to grasp. \nThe gap in perceptions of ‘Europe’ looms large. In my experience of young people\, like the students I met in Göttingen and others I have met at \nhome and on FMA guest lectureships don’t share this pessimism. So many of them have benefited from European wide programmes\, they travel with ease and confidence. They are prepared to rise to the challenge of competition and opportunity offered by the EU. \nHowever\, doubts remain and indeed grow as to whether the EU is there for the benefit of all and not just for the quick\, mobile\, talented elite. Serious work ahead for the EU which demands less self-congratulatory propaganda and more applied reasoned persuasion.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/germany-georg-august-university-of-gottingen-from-27-to-29-november-2018/
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