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Wednesday May 22, 2013
7:30-9:00 AM

Dr. Valerie Rouxel-Laxton

Sponsored by the French-American Chamber of Commerce and the European Union Center of Excellence

For more information, contact events@faccpnw.org

Join the French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest and University of Washington European Union Center of Excellence for this annual celebration of peace and unity in Europe, with an update of the Euro-zone: Looking Beyond the Euro Crisis, by Dr. Valerie Rouxel-Laxton.

Dr. Valerie Rouxel-Laxton is Head of Section, Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Union Delegation in Washington, D.C. Prior to this, she was an Economist in Employment Analysis for the EU from 2003 to 2005 and an Economist in Forecasts and Economic Situation in the EU from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010 she served as Deputy Head of Unit, Economics of America and Asia, IMF, G7/G8 of the European Commission. She was Head of Sector, Countries of the G20 of the European Commission. She was Head of Sector, Countries of the G20 of the EU from 2010 to 2011 subsequent to her current position.
She received her BA degree in Political Science and International Relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon in 1995 and her PhD in International Economics/International Relations at The Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) Geneva.

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Wednesday May 22, 2013
2:30-4:30 pm
Allen Auditorium, 181L Allen Library

Paolo Graziano

Sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence

For more information, email euc@uw.edu

Paolo R. Graziano is Associate Professor at Bocconi University, has been Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies, SciencesPo Paris (2004-2011), and currently is Research Fellow at the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Pavia, Italy.

How does European integration influence national social policies? What is the domestic use of EU social policies? This talk will focus on the relationship between European integration, domestic policy change and the usage of European resources at the national level. Recent studies have shown that the EU is an important variable to understand recent welfare state changes, but it remains relatively unclear on how precisely Europe does matter. The results of the research presented during the talk confirm that Europe matters, but in a very differentiated way both with respect to the usages of European resources and the intensity of welfare state change.