The Center for West European Studies and the EU Center are pleased to announce that five of our students participated in the Undergraduate Research Conference on the EU this April in Claremont, CA.  The conference is focused on EU-US relations, and is the largest undergraduate research conference of its kind. UW students Emma Delapré, Anna

“For more on all the questions surrounding this issue and the very latest, policy specialist John Koenig sat down with New Day NW. Koenig spent more than three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service and is currently a lecturer with the UW Center for West European Studies.”

“Despite face-to-face meetings between Russia and Ukraine, the fighting is intensifying. U.S. officials say Russia appears to be gaining ground in southern Ukraine.”

“Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so the U.S. is not required to provide help.”

“After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there are a lot of questions about why it happened and what the role of the United States will be in an imminent war. We break down three of the top questions people in Washington state are asking about the crisis in Eastern Europe.”

“John Koenig, University of Washington professor and ambassador, talks to FOX 13 Morning News about Russia invading Ukraine.”

“Director of the Center for West European Studies and Jackson School Professor Sabine Lang has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies by the European Commission in Brussels. Lang will specifically hold the Chair in Civil Society, Inclusion, and Diversity in the EU, or CIDEU, until 2024. The role is based in the Jackson

“A year can seem like a long time, especially if it is 2022. It is easy to forget that one of the Biden administration’s first foreign policy crisis was in the Eastern Mediterranean: the return of violence to the Israel–Palestine conflict in May 2021. Some saw in it a pattern indicating how President Biden and

“Whilst maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high and shows substantial progress since 2005. While this has gone mostly unnoticed, Germany has passed far-reaching legislation in major policy fields relevant for

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