European Seminar


Second Semester 2009-2010
10 February 2010
Gijs de Vries (member of Algemene Rekenkamer),
Goal and Justification of the expenditure of EU money in The Netherlands

17 February 2010
Paul Dekker (Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau), 
Dutch Public Opinion and the EU

24 Februari 2010
Carlo Trojan (former secretary-general of the EU Commission),
The functioning of Europe under Lisbon

3 March 2010
Jan van Laarhoven (secretary-general Benelux Unie),
The role of Benelux in Europe

21 April 2010
Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer (former secretary-general NATO),
'The EU and NATO'.

28 April 2010
Coby van der Linde (director Clingendael International Energy Programme
and professor in Groningen and Leiden),
'EU energy policy'.
First Semester 2009-2010
9 September 2009
Prof.dr. Richard T. Griffiths,
'History of establishing the European Space Agency (ESA)'
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room

23 September 2009
Mrs Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan (president of the International Institute of Space Law),
Present Activities of ESA
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room

28 October 2009
Dr. Bernard Bot (Director of the Dutch Institute for International Affairs, former minister of foreign affairs),
Future Enlargements and Neighbourhood Policy
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room

18 November 2009 
Prof.dr. Rob de Wijk (Director of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies),
European Security and Defence Policy
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room

9 December 2009
Willem Post (Senior Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael),
President Obama and Europe
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room
2008-2009
5 September 2008
Dr. Bernard Bot (Director of the Dutch Institute for International Affairs, former minister of foreign affairs), ' The Future of the EU, with special attention to the question of enlargement'
Location: Campus Den Haag, Lange Houtstraat 5

12 September 2008
Professor mr. L.J. Brinkhorst (former minister of economic affairs, former minister for agriculture), ' The Need for the Quick implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, with special reference to the crisis in Georgia'
Location: Campus Den Haag, Lange Houtstraat 5

10-11 October 2008
' Conference: Neighbours but not neighbourly. The EU's relations with its neighbourhood'
Location: Opening, Nieuwspoort, Den Haag

31 October 2008
J.J.A.M.(Jos) van Gennip (former CDA-senator, member advisory council of the scientific institute of the European People's Party)', What Kind of Europe do we want?'
Location: Nieuwspoort, Lange Poten 10

12 December 2008
Charlotte Wennekers (researcher Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau), ' The Dutch Press and Public Opinion concerning the EU'
Location: Nieuwspoort, Lange Poten 10

6 February 2009
Ieke van den Burg (Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament), 'De EU, het Europees Parlement en de recessie'
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Voorhout 44, room LV-1 

20 February 2009
Mr. Ate Oostra (Director-General at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality), 'Het Gemeenschappelijk Landbouwbeleid in de komende tijd'  
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room

13 March 2009
Dr. Nout Welling (President of the Dutch Central Bank), 'Europa en de financiele crisis'
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Voorhout 44, room LV-1

20 March 2009
Mr William Drozdiak (former chief  Europe correspondent for the Washington Post), '“Where we stand and where we are going” – New U.S. foreign policy under the Obama Administration'
Location: Lipsius Building, Leiden, Room 227

3 April 2009
Drs. Wepke Kingma (Drs. Wepke Kingma, director for European Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Small states in the European union
Location: Campus Den Haag - Lange Houtstraat 5-7, aula room