Editors Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, Director of the Center for European Integration and head of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) „The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin, and Dr. Katrin Böttger, Deputy Director and Director of the research project „The EU’s policy towards Eastern Europe and Central Asia – A key role for Germany“, Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin, presented their edited volume entitled „Policy Change in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood: A sectoral approach“ on 7 June, 2012. The presentation took place in the European House in Berlin, within the framework of an IEP Lunch Debate. Marzenna...[more]

On 2 May 2012, Doris Pack, Chairwoman of the Committee for Culture and Education and a member of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo, discussed the numerous challenges of EU integration both individual Balkan countries as well as the region as a whole are facing in an IEP lunch debate entitled “Perspectives on Stabilization and Integration of the Western Balkan States.” Pack emphasized that EU involvement in the area should not be viewed as exclusively altruistic, as a stable southeastern Europe will present much less of a threat to the EU than one festering...[more]

At the IEP lunch debate on 26 April 2012, Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, spoke on the internal and external challenges of Europe’s future. Brok focussed in particular on Europe’s responsibility to formulate financial and political strategies perpetuating Europe’s stability. In the context of the debt crisis, he appealed for more solidarity to be incorporated into European solution strategies, defined by two key factors: First, Europe must not withdraw from its responsibility to spread and grow common European goals. Consistency in European domestic affairs is needed now more than ever,...[more]

Dr. Andreas Schockenhoff, deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group of the German Bundestag and chairman of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group, spoke about “Germany and France as the old and new core of Europe” at an IEP lunch debate on 23 April 2012. He stressed the significance of Germany and France with regard to the European integration process, even in a union of 27 member states. He added however, that this core needed to find additional partners for an enhanced cooperation to further develop the integration project. Concerning the preceding French election campaign, Schockenhoff pointed out that European topics...[more]

IEP lunch debate with H.E. Dr. József Czukor, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, on 18 January 2011 in the European House, Berlin.[more]

Lunch debate with Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, Prime Minister of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, 24 March 2010, Europäisches Haus, Berlin.[more]

Lunch debate with Prof. Dr. Maria João Rodrigues, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the European Presidency, 5 October 2007, Europäisches Haus, Berlin[more]

Lunch debate with Prof. Roy H. GINSBERG, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, New York/USA, 23 March 2007, 12.30 hrs, Jean-Monnet-Haus, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.[more]

Lunch Debate with Christian SCHMIDT, Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Defence, 20 November 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesalle 22, 10717 Berlin.[more]

Lunch Debate with Axel SCHÄFER, MdB, European Policy Spokesperson for the SPD Faction of the German Bundestag, 28 September 2006 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.[more]

Lunch Debate with Andrew DUFF, MEP, Spokesperson for Constitutional Affairs of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, 20 September 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.[more]

Lunch Debate with Dr. Joachim WUERMELING, State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, 6 July 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin. [more]

Lunch Debate with Ministerial Director Peter TEMPEL, Head of the Europe Bureau of the German Federal Foreign Office, 22 June 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin[more]

Lunch Debate with Günther VERHEUGEN, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, 19 June 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.  [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.]  In his talk on employment and growth Commissioner Verheugen emphasised three main points: the deepening of the EU, its economic future, and the international responsibility of the EU. Verheugen let there be no doubt that the EU requires a new and improved treaty foundation in order to create an institutional framework that allows...[more]

Lunch Debate with Peter ALTMAIER, MdB, Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, 23 May 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.  [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] The European Union today can only reduce the “dissatisfaction of citizens toward Europe” through a demonstration of its capacity to act. State Secretary Altmaier, from 2002 to 2003 a deputy member at the EU constitutional convention and previously at the EU fundamental rights convention, presented this thesis at the beginning of his talk for this IEP...[more]

Lunch Debate with Dr. Angelica SCHWALL-DÜREN, MP, Deputy Chair of the SPD Bundestag Faction, 10 May 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.  [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] The constitution is not dead. This was the assessment with which Dr. Schwall-Düren opened this IEP Lunch Debate on “How to Proceed with the EU Constitutional Process”. There still exists in Europe a significant interest in the implementation of the goals of the constitutional treaty. Therefore, among the priorities of the German Council Presidency is giving the...[more]

Lunch Debate with Sir Stephen WALL, Chair of the Public Affairs Division at the Hill & Knowlton agency, 6 March 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin.[more]

Lunch Debate with Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, Chair of the Faction of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, 20 February 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] “The European Union”, Pöttering began his talk, “is based on values”. They are the foundation of the entire integration project. For this reason, the European constitutional treaty is indispensable, because it is the first time in history that these values have been extensively described. An invocatio dei in the constitution would also have been...[more]

Lunch Debate with Mihai-Razvan UNGUREANU, Foreign Minister of Romania, on the topic “Prospects of European Integration - The view of Romania as a future EU Member State”, 7 February 2006 at the Romanian Embassy in Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.]   Foreign Minister Ungureanu painted a positive picture of the current situation in Romania, which will be part of the 5th wave of EU enlargement. According to him, Romania will bring with it an array of positive characteristics into the EU: the economy is showing high growth rates, the workforce is very well-trained...[more]

Lunch Debate with Dr. Hans WINKLER, State Secretary in the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Vienna, on the topic "Priorities of the Austrian Council Presidency", 23 January 2006 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Bundesallee 22, 10717 Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.]   State Secretary Winkler opened his talk by stating that Austria will conduct its presidency in an intermediary and coordinating role. Therefore, Vienna prefers the term “chair” instead of president and will pursue close contact with the other member states and European institutions....[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Sir Peter Torry, Ambassador of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2 November 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and in cooperation with the Centre International de Formation Européenne.] The British Ambassador Sir Peter Torry initially emphasised that the true crisis of the European Union is not of an institutional or financial kind, but rather that one speaks of a job crisis. High unemployment in individual member states is the central problem that must be solved in order to keep pace with global competition....[more]

IEP Lunch Debate on the topic "The CFSP: Institutional Perspectives and Current Questions of European Foreign Policy" with Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, Director of the EU-COR Division, 19 October 2005, 12:30-14:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and in cooperation with the Centre International de Formation Européenne.]   At the center of this event stood the question of how institutional improvements in the CFSP, at least to a limited extent, can be reached through the constitutional treaty during the reflection period declared by the...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn on 12 July 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Berlin, on the topic "EU enlargement under stress". [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and in cooperation with the European Commission Delegation in Germany (Berlin).]   Vortrag „EU enlargement under stress – the policy of consolidation, conditionality and communication“ als PDF-Datei (94 KB) Presseberichte: "Pushing the boundaries" in Financial Times, 03/04. September 2005"Brüssel hält an Türkei-Zeitplan fest - EU-Kommissar erwartet Zustimmung aller Staaten für...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Dr. Klaus Scharioth, State Secretary in the German Federal Foreign Office, 8 June 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Haus, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] State Secretary in the Federal Foreign Office Dr. Klaus Scharioth emphasised that the negative results of the referenda in France and the Netherlands may be a setback for the ratification of the European Constitution but do not mean the end of the European integration process. The most pressing task for now is analysing the multi-layered reasons for the rejection of the constitution and avoiding any...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform in London, 2 June 2005 at 19:00 in the Editorial Building of the F.A.Z., Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the project "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and the project "On the European Constitution" funded by the ASKO-Europa foundation.] The negative votes on the constitutional treaty in France on 29 May and in the Netherlands on 1 June brought the European Union into crisis. Europe-wide, sceptics now find themselves on the march. The referenda in both founding member states have triggered a broad debate in Europe on the future of the...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Director of Political Staff, Secretariate General of the Council of the European Union, 1 June 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Haus, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] After the definite “no” in France and the Netherlands to the constitutional treaty, the future of the CFSP and ESDP will only proceed in small steps, according to the evaluation of Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Head of the Policy Unit in the Secretariat General of the Council in Brussels and one of the closest associates of the High Representative for the CFSP. Even if – as...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Prof. Klaus Hänsch, MEP, President of the European Parliament (ret.), Former Member of the Presidium of the EU Constitutional Convention, 25 April 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Haus, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the project "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and the project "On the European Constitution" funded by the ASKO-Europa foundation.] There are no convincing alternatives to the constitutional treatyMEP Klaus Hänsch currently sees all member states of the European Union looking anxiously toward France, where on 29 May 2005 e referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty will...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate in cooperation with the IEP Study Group "Enlargement and Consolidation of the EU" with Elmar BROK, MEP, Chair of the Committee for Foreign Affairs/Chair of the IEP Study Group "Enlargement and Consolidation of the EU"; Dr. Meglena PLUGTSCHIEVA, Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria, Berlin; Leonard ORBAN, Chief Negotiator of Romania for the European Union, Ministry for European Integration, Bucharest; Dražen KARAMAN, Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, Berlin. 21 March 2005, 12:30-14:30 in the Jean Monnet Haus, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Martin Schulz, MEP, Chair of the Faction of the European Social Democratic Party, 18 March 2005 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Haus, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the project "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation and the project "On the European Constitution" funded by the ASKO-Europa foundation.] The financial perspective for the years 2007 to 2013 is being intensively debated by the heads of state and government of the EU member states. Martin Schulz shows understanding for the German demand of capping expenditures at a maximum of 1 percent of gross national income, but he regrets the lack of...[more]

IEP Lunch Debate with Dr. Günter Burghardt, Special Advisor to the Barroso Commission, Fmr. Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States of America and General Director for Foreign Relations, 8 December 2004 at 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Berlin. [This event was organised as part of the "Dialog Europa" of the Otto Wolff Foundation.] Nach den Wahlen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika im November 2004 sieht sich die Europäische Union mit einer zweiten Amtsperiode der Bush-Administration konfrontiert. Welche Auswirkungen dies auf die Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen hat, ist noch offen....[more]

On 18th and 19th October 2012, around 55 experts from academia as well as practitioners and policy makers met at Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin to discuss the European Union’s development as a foreign policy actor since the coming into effect of the Lisbon Treaty. The conference was organized by the Institut für Europäische Politik Berlin (IEP) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, with the support of the Erasmus Academic Network LISBOAN and the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation. During the two-day workshop the experts from all over Europe as well as from overseas debated developments in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and assessed...[more]

The expert conference „The European Union - between Consolidation and Expansion“ took place from 21 to 22 September 2006 in co-operation with the Academic Directorate of the IEP.[more]

On the 1st and 2nd of December 2011, the round table conference on the EU’s policy towards authoritarian regimes, organised by the Maastricht University, the Trans-European Policy Studies Association and the Institut für Europäische Politik, took place in Brussels. [more]

On 18 October 2011, a group of 20 students from the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) visited the Institut für Europäische Politik to learn more about the European Union’s policies towards its neighbors and Central Asia and the work of the institute.[more]

The Institut für Europäische Politik e.V. in cooperation with the Policy Planning Unit of the Federal Foreign Office organised an expert workshop on the long term economic perspectives of the Euro zone on the 20th of July 2011.[more]

On July 14-15, 2011, eight young experts met in Berlin to discuss the first drafts of their contribution to the edited volume on “Neighbourhood and Accession-Europeanization – A comparison in Practice”.[more]

The workshop took place on 17.-18.02.2011 in Brussels within the THESEUS programme. A detailed report and the workshop programme is available as PDF files below. Report Programme [more]

On 4 and 5 November 2009 the IEP in cooperation with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) organized an expert conference on the topic "How to improve the European Neighbourhod Policy? Concepts, perceptions and policy recommendations for its Eastern dimension". It took place at the Foundation UNiversitaire in Brussels.[more]

The “2nd International Summer School on Sustainable Development”, which will take place at the European Academy Otzenhausen from the 23rd to 30th of August 2009, is devoted to the topic “Decarbonizing Europe and the World. European Climate Policy - Internal and External Dimensions”. The summer school will deal with the social, political and economic aspects of European climate policy as well as the challenges of international climate policy in the ongoing fight against global warming.[more]

Conference of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) on the 22nd of January 2009 in the European House in Berlin[more]