March 1 | 6:30pm-8:00pm | University Bookstore RSVP to cweseuc@uw.edu Alexander Pantages was 13 when he arrived in the U.S. in the 1880’s, after contracting malaria in Panama. He opened his first motion picture theater in 1902 and went on to build one of the largest and most important independently-owned theater chains in the country.

On March 11, we partnered with the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, the Global Business Center, and the World Affairs Council to host the Washington State Regional Euro Challenge. Students from Inglemoor High School (Kenmore) and Newport High School (Bellevue) went head to head in what would become an extremely close

2017’s West Coast Model European was a success. Nearly 60 students from across the U.S. and Canada attended this year’s conference in Seattle and discussed the politics of Brexit and fiscal reform. Students acted as Finance Ministers and Heads of State for their perspective countries, engaging in upper-level negotiations. Special guest and Keynote, Ernesto Penas Lado,

On December 6, Professor Sabine Lang announced the winners of an exciting Op-Ed competition in the Euro 301 Class. Over the past weeks, the students had worked tirelessly to address the question “How has Merkel’s open doors policy affected Germany and migration?” The Op-Eds covered varying perspectives of Germany and Merkel’s “can do attitude”. The

Ernesto attended some of the sessions of the meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC), held in downtown Seattle from January 30 to February 2. “It was a very interesting experience, to compare this Council with Europe’s Advisory Councils established under the Common Fisheries Policy,” noted Ernesto. He was excited to see the ways

Austin Crane is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Geography Department at UW and the recipient of the EU Center’s esteemed Jean Monnet Chair EU Graduate Research Grant. With the help of the grant, Crane was able to travel to the UK in July 2016. Here, he dove head-first into research on Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR).