EES – Expert Meetings

TEU, with the Office of Bogusław Sonik MEP and The Higher School of Business – National Louis University, Nowy Sącz, has been organising European Expert Seminar since October 2005 for students of social sciences, economics, and law not just from TEU, but from all universities in Krakow as well as around Poland. Its aim is to look into the activities of the EU as a whole.

Meetings under the Auspices of the European Expert Seminar

Open meetings with experts in the field of European studies, as well as representatives of the academic world, and representatives from the EU and diplomatic services.

This comprises an element of the EES, which are part of the Autumn School and the “When I say ‘Europe’,. I think of…” seminar. These are meetings with experts which have been presented on a cyclical basis since December 2005.

17th December 2005
Poland and the EU Budget
Prof. Jolanta Zombirt from the Financial Department of the Polish National Bank (NBP), Dr. Mikołaj Budzanowski MEP, EPP-ED, and Bogusław Sonik MEP, EPP-ED.

21st February 2006
The EU Budget Perspective for 2007-2013 – Building a Compromise
Dr, Janusz Lewandowki, Chairman of the EP Budget Commission

10th March 2006
Governments of the Right and Freedom in the European Union – An Agency of Basic Rights. Should the EU have a Convergent Human Rights Policy?
Dr. Filip Jasiński, expert of the Office of the Committee for European Integration, Bogusław Sonik MEP, Maciej Brachowicz

21st April 2006
Who’s afraid of the Polish plumber? A meeting dedicated to the liberalisation of the employment market in the EU.
Prof. Sławomir Dudzik from the Chair of European Law at the Jagiellonian University

8th May 2006
Authoritarianism to the East of the European Union’s Borders. A meeting devoted to the eastern neighbours of the EU.
Prof. Aleksander Lipatov from the Russian Academy of Sciences

19th May 2006
Common EU Energy Policy. A Test of European Solidarity?
Dr. Leszek Jesień, advisor to the Polish government on European matters, head of the Chair for European Integration at TEU, member of the cabinet of the Minister of the Economy, Dr. Mikołaj Budzanowski MEP, EPP-ED.

13th November 2006
Halfway through the Finnish Presidency
Meeting with the Finnish Ambassador to Poland HE Jan Store

7th December 2006
What good leadership is about…
Prof. Pablo Cardona, IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra