The TREUP project pursues interdisciplinary European studies from the enhanced perception of tensions at the fringes of the European Union, combining the empirical exploration of tensions with the EU’s purpose as a normative constitutional perspective. Its four research clusters focus on tensions between narrow economic perspectives on integration and the lives of Europe’s people in their diversity, between the EU’s external (trade) policy and its constitutional values, between different degrees of intensity of integration and different levels of governance, and between the two competing European human rights regimes.
At the EU referendum on 23 June, citizens poll whether the UK should remain a member of the EU or whether it should announce its intention to withdraw. This question clearly affects Northern Ireland just as other parts of the UK. Nevertheless, the term “Brexit” has become shorthand of the event – as if the decision is only about Britain (i.e. England, Wales and Scotland). … Continue reading
The anti-immigration rhetoric of the Leave campaign in the Brexit debate has brought to the fore the question of further enlargement of the European Union. Justice secretary Michael Gove recently raged at the amount of money being directed at the five current candidates – Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey – warning that “another 88m people will soon be eligible for NHS care and school places for their children”. … Continue reading
Academic seminar organised by JMCE TREUP, Queen’s University Belfast & the Royal Irish Academy
Time & place: 6 May, 10:30, Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
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On 1 April 2016, Professor Dagmar Schiek was a key-note speaker at the conference “‘Resistance, Backlash and Power: Gender Equality and Feminist New Practice in EU and Global Discourse’ International Symposium, staged by the European Union Centre Network New Zealand (EUCN NZ) and hosted by the University of Canterbury. A summary of the Symposium can be found here, and some more information can be downloadedhere.
Academic seminar: call for papers (now expired, but maintained for information)
Tuesday 7 June, 2016 – 13:00 – 16:00; Queen’s University Belfast 27 University Square 27:101
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – Tensions at the Fringes of the EU Stream
(Keynote speaker Prof. Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge)
