European Seminar
An overview of past and future European Seminars.
2011-2012
28 September 2011
Drs. Wepke Kingma, director for European Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Netherlands
The EU is a big fat success ... but it will be a long time before we feel European
5 October 2011
Mr. Hans van der Loo, Vice-President EU liaison Royal Dutch Shell
Energy, carbon, resources and security ... are we reaching a tipping point?
15 February 2012
Prof.mr. J.G. de Hoop Scheffer
EU and NATO
22 February 2012
Prof.dr.ir. R. Rabbinge
European agriculture and world food supply
29 February 2012
Prof.dr. J. de Haan
De Nederlandsche Bank and the crisis
7 March 2012
Drs. R.H. Cuperus
The Netherlands and Europe
11 April 2012
Mr. S. Gosses
Turkey and Europe
18 April 2012
Drs. M.B. Engwirda
The European Court of Auditors
2 May 2012
Prof.dr.ir. G. Meester
Agricultural Policy and rural development
2010-2011
29 September 2010
Drs. Wepke Kingma, Chief Director for European Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Current challenges in Dutch EU Policies
13 October 2010
Dr. Jan Werts, EU-Media correspondent in Brussels
The unstoppable advance of the European Council
3 November 2010
Prof. dr. Jan Jacob van Dijk, Professor at Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam
Will European integration always remain a project of the elite?
8 December 2010
Prof. dr. Wolfram Kaiser, professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Constructing Europe. Putting the European Union and its history in museaums
16 February 2011
Dr. Mendeltje van Keulen, Advisor to the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer) on CFSP and CSDP
The new role of national parliaments in the EU
23 February 2011
Prof. Dr. Lex Hoogduin, Executive Director, Dutch Central Bank
The crisis, the EU and the euro
16 March 2011
Mr. Arnout Molenaar, Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, former Dutch permanent representative in Brussels on CSDP
The Common Security and Defence Policy
30 March 2011
Mr. Ate Oostra, former deputy in the permanent representation in Brussels, former Director-General in the Minitry of Agriculture
The future of the Common Agricultural Policy
13 April 2011
Mr. Frans Timmermans, former State Secretary for European Affairs (2006-2010)
Attitude, Policies and Role of the Netherlands in the EU
2009-2010
9 September 2009
Prof.dr. Richard T. Griffiths,
History of establishing the European Space Agency (ESA)
23 September 2009
Mrs Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan, president of the International Institute of Space Law
The challenges of the European Space Agency
28 October 2009
Dr. Bernard Bot, Director of the Dutch Institute for International Affairs, former minister of foreign affairs
Future Enlargements and Neighbourhood Policy
18 November 2009
Prof.dr. Rob de Wijk, Director of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
European Security and Defence Policy
9 December 2009
Willem Post, Senior Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael
President Obama and Europe
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
EU and NATO
28 April 2010
Coby van der Linde, director Clingendael International Energy Programme
and professor in Groningen and Leiden
'EU energy policy'.
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
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
10-11 October 2008
Conference: Neighbours but not neighbourly. The EU's relations with its neighbourhood
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?
12 December 2008
Charlotte Wennekers, researcher Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau
The Dutch Press and Public Opinion concerning the EU
6 February 2009
Ieke van den Burg, Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament
Everything is changing: economy, politics and ideologies
20 February 2009
Mr. Ate Oostra, Director-General at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Het Gemeenschappelijk Landbouwbeleid in de komende tijd
13 March 2009
Dr. Nout Welling, President of the Dutch Central Bank
Europa en de financiele crisis
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
3 April 2009
Drs. Wepke Kingma, director for European Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Small states in the European Union