The European Union Program at Princeton

Announcements

The competition is on for the 2012 EU Program Best Thesis Award. In order to be considered for the prize, a thesis must be nominated by its adviser and an electronic copy sent to Sophie Meunier, smeunier@princeton.edu, by May 4 at the latest.

Sophie Meunier was named by the French Prime Minister as a "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" for services rendered for her action towards the "promotion of French language and culture in the United States".

Attention Undergraduate and Graduate Students: The renowned German journal “Aus Politik and zeitgeschichte” is having a Call for Papers for an essay about European identity: www.bpb.de/publikationen/AMVVNN. They are happy to accept English contributions. The winning essays will be published in the journal on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Treaty of Maastricht. The guiding questions are: What is European identity? Is there the need for a European Identity? Why is a European identity unneessary or even bad? The way it works: Submit an abstract of about 4,000 characters to the address in the CfP. The authors of the selected abstract will then have time until the end of December to complete this essay.

Congratulations to Ledina Gocaj, winner of the 2011 EU Program Senior Thesis Award for her thesis "Bailing Out Europe: Creating the European Financial Stability Facility"

Congratulations to Patricia Bandeira Vieira, winner of the 2011 EU Program Exploratory Research fellowship.

Interviews

The EU Program Undergraduate Fellows conduct interviews with our speakers. 

Here Leo Michel, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, is interviewed by Amanda Tuninetti '11 on the issue of European defense and security policy.

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Funny news about the EU you might have missed...

• Is France losing the war of the roses? The New York Times, May 9, 2009
• A funny April Fool's article The Economist Group Expands, Economist.com, April 1, 2009
• EU Bureaucrats to Head for the Farm IHT, March 18, 2009
• A Brussels brouhaha over coffee machines  IHT, March 10, 2009

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The European Union Program at Princeton sponsors events and activities at Princeton University relating to the European Union and European politics generally. These include lectures and seminars by outside speakers, course development, research conferences, policy analysis, public commentary, visiting fellows, student activities, and informational outreach.

The EU Program was founded in 2004 and is supported by a grant from the Princeton Institute on International and Regional Studies, the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and the Woodrow Wilson School. It welcomes opportunities for cooperation with other institutions inside and outside of Princeton University.

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