Events and audiovisual
UPCOMING EVENTS
In light of COVID-19, these events will be held online. Access to them is free but registration is required. To register, please click on the title of the event that interests you.
For the 2020-21 academic year, the following events have been organised:
The UK, the EU and parliamentary democracy. Saturday school for Politics & Government A-level teachers and their pupils
- Saturday 9 January 2021, 9.15am - 1pm
- Speakers:
- Dr D. G. Dimitrakopoulos (Jean Monnet Chair)
- Mr Matthew Bevington (researcher in the UK in a Changing EU think tank and doctoral student at Birkbeck’s Politics Department).
- Register for this event: The UK, the EU and parliamentary democracy. Saturday school for Politics and Government A-level teachers and pupils.
Inaugural Jean Monnet lecture: Ms Emily O’Reilly, European Ombudsman. EU accountability: an Ombudsman perspective
- Tuesday 23 February 2021, 6.15pm
- Ms Emily O’Reilly - first elected by the European Parliament in 2013 and re-elected in 2014 and 2019 - has been instrumental in improving transparency in EU decision making and promoting higher ethical standards in EU administration. We are delighted that she has agreed to give the inaugural Jean Monnet lecture.
- Register for this event: Inaugural Jean Monnet lecture: Ms Emily O’Reilly, European Ombudsman. EU accountability: an Ombudsman perspective.
Reform inside Economic & Monetary Union and the limits of parliamentary government: the case of Greece
- Thursday 25 February 2021, 6.15pm
- Speakers:
- Mr Declan Costello, Deputy Director General, DG ECFIN, European Commission
- Ms Georgette Lalis, European Commission (ret.), former deputy head of the Athens office of the European Commission’s Task Force for Greece
- Dr George Chouliarakis, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University and former Alternate Finance Minister in the second Tsipras government (2015-2019)
- Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Chair, London School of Economics & Political Science.
- Register for this event: Reform inside Economic and Monetary Union and the limits of parliamentary government: the case of Greece.
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL
Audiovisual material from the events that will be held under the auspices of the Jean Monnet Chair in Parliamentary Democracy and European Integration will be made available on this page in due course.
The Talking Europe video blog – whose original objective was and remains to showcase Europe-related research conducted at Birkbeck – is curated by the Jean Monnet Chair holder and will also be used to inform the wider public about activities organised under the auspices of this Monnet Chair.