The Europa-Kolleg on the road in China
In view of the current global political upheavals, Europe is more than ever called upon to reassess its role as a global player. This process must also be accompanied by academic research. We are ...
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Veranstaltung Europawochen am 05. Mai
Die Europawochen 2025 stehen bevor, Hamburg begeht sie in diesem Jahr unter dem Motto „Europa – Hafen der Vielfalt“ und das Europa-Kolleg Hamburg freut sich, auch wieder bei einer ...
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Obituary for Ernst Axel August Horstmann
(July 26, 1945 † October 10, 2024) The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg mourns the loss of its long-standing board and advisory council member, Ernst Axel August Horstmann. Few individuals embody the ...
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Obituary for Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte (1975-2024)
by Prof. Dr. Armin Hatje On November 22, 2024, Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte passed away at the age of 49 after a long and serious illness. With his passing, European law has lost one of its ...
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New Doctoral Scholarships “Uncertainty” Announced by Zeit-Stiftung
The Zeit-Stiftung Bucerius has announced the interdisciplinary scholarship program “Uncertainty.” This program targets doctoral candidates in the humanities, social sciences, ...
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Obituary for Prof. Dr. Thomas Bruha
(*July 3, 1945 † July 14, 2024) Thomas Bruha was a legal cosmopolitan who passionately advocated throughout his life—and especially in his scholarly works—for a liberal, rules-based international ...
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Online-Discussion: “European Sovereignty”
The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg is continuing a series of online workshops in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the LUMSA University of Palermo entitled “Mediterranean ...
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CFA: FOTAR2024 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME
We are seeking passionate early career professionals for the #FOTAR2024 Scholarship Programme, hosted by Europa-Kolleg Hamburg and Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. As the 2024 US ...
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Celebrating Excellence: MEELS Graduation and Thesis Prize Winners
The MEELS Class of 2022/2023 recently concluded their academic journey with a graduation ceremony that acknowledged exceptional achievements and contributions. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. ...
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SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE 2023: PROF. DR. EVA G HEIDBREDER
The Stiftung Europa-Kolleg-Hamburg and the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation are pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Dr. Eva Gabriele Heidbreder as this year’s ...
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The first “Hamburg Speech on the Future of Europe” with H.E. Egils Levits
The first “Hamburg Speech on the Future of Europe” organized as part of the multi-year conference series “Hamburg-Vigoni Forum”, took place on Friday, April 28, 2023 in ...
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Hamburg-Vigoni Forum participates in panel discussion on policy paper
“30 Jahre Europaministerkonferenz – Handlungsoptionen und Visionen für die Zukunft” Source: Landesportal Sachsen-Anhalt On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the European ...
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Further Study Papers published
Study Paper No 01/23 and No 2/23 The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg is pleased to publish two more Study Papers. These are the very well rated theses of MEELS students Ibrahim Gündoğar and Meltem ...
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New Visiting Fellow at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg: Dr. Roberto Luppi
Europa-Kolleg Hamburg welcomes a new Visiting Fellow. The Italian Dr. Roberto Luppi will be working at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg during a three-month research stay starting in December 2022. Dr. ...
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FOTAR 2022 in Review
How can international trade be organized fairer and more climate-friendly while at the same time meeting competition policy requirements? The “Changing Politics of Transatlantic Trade ...
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FOTAR – Future of Transatlantic Relations
FOTAR (Future of Transatlantic Relations) is a conference format devised and run by Europa-Kolleg Hamburg and Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung and supported by generous funding from ...
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Start of the MEELS program at the Institute for European Integration
The new cohort of the Master’s program “European and European Legal Studies” (MEELS) started their studies at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg in September. The reason for the early start ...
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New Visiting Researcher investigates EU-China Relations
Dr. Chien-Huei Wu will become a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Integration starting in November 2022. Dr. Wu is an associate research professor at the Institute of European and ...
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Conference “Integration through Politics, Integration through Law?” at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg
On September 15 and 16, 2022, the annual conference of the Working Group on Politics and Law on the topic “Integration through Politics, Integration through Law?” took place at ...
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Big Data: New volume in the series published
A new volume entitled “Big Data and The Abuse of Dominance by Multi-Sided Platforms” has just been published in the EUROPA-KOLLEG HAMBURG series on Integration Research by Nomos ...
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Paul Nemitz Appointed Research Fellow
Paul Nemitz, Chief Advisor to the EU Commission on Justice and Consumers, has accepted an appointment as Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration. This means that the EU law ...
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New Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Integration
In August 2022, Italian PhD Riccardo Samperi will conduct research at the Institute for European Integration. The visiting fellow from University of Enna is currently writing his PhD thesis in ...
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Walter Grab and the European Democracy Movement
New Volume of the Publication Series on Integration Research What about the future of democracy in Europe? The new volume of the publication series of Europa-Kolleg Hamburg on integration ...
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Crisis of Democracy in Europe? Panel as part of the EuropaCamp at Kampnagel
The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg will again participate in this year’s EuropaCamp of the ZEIT-Stiftung with its own panel – again in cooperation with the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ...
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Statement on the war in Ukraine
“The armed attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine violates the fundamental principles of international law – first and foremost the prohibition of the use of force in Article 2 ...
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On Friday, January 28, 2022, the graduation ceremony of the Master’s Programme in European and European Legal Studies took place in a hybrid format. Some of the students received their ...
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Master students virtually visit the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt
On Wednesday, January 5th, our students of the Master’s Programme European and European Legal Studies attended a lecture on the “Current challenges for the monetary policy of the ...
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Conference: “Foreign Perspectives on European Identity”
We would like to cordially invite you to a two-day online conference from Monday, 29 November to Tuesday, 30 November 2021 on the topic: “Foreign Perspectives on European ...
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New study paper by Felix Toggi Sames
"The Principle of direct effect by the court of the Eurasian Economic Union – A Eurasian restatement of Van Gend en Loos in order to achieve further integration?"...
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Double Integration? The European Gap in the Debate on the State of German Unity
German unity and European unification have more in common than previously perceived. The 3rd October 1990 not only brought an end to the division of Germany. On this day, the territory of the ...
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Video blog: Worlds together, worlds apart?
The Scholar in residence conference from September 23 to 25 2021, assessed the intersection and interplay between the processes of European integration and German unification in the decade from ...
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“Forschen, Vernetzen, Verstehen” – The cooperation of EKH and BKHS
Since 2017, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg has been cooperating with the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. In this video, we present our joint activities. The core topics of our cooperation are ...
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NEW VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW: Paul Weismann
We are pleased to welcome Paul Weismann as a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Integration in August 2021. He studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg as well as at the ...
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Publication: Human Rights of Irregular Migrants in the European Union
As part of the publication series of the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg on integration research (Schriftenreihe des Europa-Kollegs Hamburg zur Integrationsforschung), the book “Human Rights of ...
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New study paper published
The Institute for European Integration is pleased to publish Lydia Chao’s study paper on the topic of “Veil-Piercing under American, German, and Taiwanese Company Law”. Lydia ...
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New Visiting Research Fellow
We are very pleased to welcome Alejandro Sánchez Frías as a visiting research fellow at the Institute for European Integration from June until August 2021. He studied law at the University of ...
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FROM CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: TRUMP, THE FAR RIGHT, AND THREATS TO DEMOCRACY
On Thursday, 21 January 2021 at 6pm (CET) David Abraham, Professor emeritus from the University of Miami, School of Law, will be joining Markus Kotzur for a very timely discussion on the topic ...
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NEW DISCUSSION PAPERS PUBLISHED
The Institute for European Integration is glad to publish the Discussion Papers of the visiting fellows Nataliya Stranadko and Nilyufar Abdulatova. Nataliya Stranadko is a doctoral candidate in ...
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Season’s Greetings from EKH-President Markus Kotzur
Dear Colleagues, Dear Staff, Dear Teachers, Dear Students, A year that was challenging in many respects lies behind us, and the Covid19 pandemic also overshadows this Christmas and holiday ...
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Obituary: Prof. Dr. Wolf Schäfer
On February 22, 2020 our colleague and friend Prof. em. Dr. sc. pol. Wolf Schäfer died unexpectedly after short but grave illness at the age of 78 years among his family in Kiel. The news of his ...
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Book Presentation: “Shaping Parliamentary Democracy”
On 20 February, the work “Shaping Parliamentary Democracy: Collected Memories from the European Parliament” was presented to an interested audience of almost 30 people in the Heinrich ...
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FOTAR2020 – The Transatlantic Security Partnership in Turbulent Times
The rules-based international order is increasingly under attack, and parties on both sides of the Atlantic are openly questioning multilateral norms and institutions. As the US national security ...
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Start for MEELS 2019/20
The new class of our Master’s Programme European and European Legal Studies (MEELS) commenced their course at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg this October. The students were greeted by our Director of ...
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Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur is travelling to Georgia to sign a Memorandum of Understanding negotiated with involvement of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). This MoU is ...
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Europe and Beyond Fellowships
As part of the guest researcher programme “Europe and Beyond”, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg is currently offering a range of research fellowships for doctoral students in the field of EU ...
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Conference: “Changing Arithmetics of the European Union”
On 28 June 2019, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, in cooperation with the Friedrich A. von Hayek Gesellschaft e.V., successfully hosted an interdisciplinary conference on questions of change in the ...
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Ceremony in celebration of the 85th birthday of Prof. Dr. Häberle
On 13 May 2019, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg celebrated the 85th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Häberle (Bayreuth/St. Gallen) with an international festive colloquium. In his welcome ...
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The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg at the Summer of Knowledge: “The European Union between Utopia and Reality”
The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg – Institute for European Integration will take part in the science festival “Summer of Knowledge” organised by the Hamburg Ministry of Science, ...
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Cooperation with GIZ: Workshops for Jurists of European Law
Invited by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg will participate in a workshop program starting in May 2019 to present teachers in Georgia different ...
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Panel Discussion: “Germany, France and Poland – How are the weights shifting in Europe?
The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg – Institute for European Integration successfully participated with a panel in the EuropaCamp of the ZEIT-Stiftung on 27 April. Under the title “Germany, ...
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Four new Study Papers from our class of 2018
We have added four publications of our class of 2018 to our series of Study Papers, in which we publish selected Master’s theses of graduates of the Master Programme in European and European ...
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Obituary: Dr. Konrad Lammers
On March 23, 2019, our long-time colleague Dr. Konrad Lammers died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 71. He was a foundational pillar of the Institute for European Integration of the ...
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As part of our research seminar, that was established in 2014, we regularly invite researchers affiliated with the Institute for academic talks on topics of European integration. Next seminar: ...
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Graduation ceremony 2018 MEELS
On Friday, 25 January 2019, the students of the 2017/2018 graduation class of the Master Programme of European and European Legal Studies were awarded their certificates in a ceremony at the ...
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New Discussion Paper: European External Action Service
The Institute for European Integration is glad to publish the Discussion Paper „Official communications of the European External Action Service with Russia: crafting the image of Normative Power ...
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Conference Review: FOTAR2018
In their discussion on Saturday afternoon, 17 November 2018, at the end of the two-day international transatlantic conference “FOTAR2018” in Hamburg, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz ...
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13th edition of the textbook “The European Union”: Conversation and discussion with the authors
On the occasion of the release of the 13th edition of the textbook “The European Union”, the authors Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur (1st person from right), Prof. Dr. Roland Bieber (2nd ...
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Welcome event for MEELS 2019/2019
The new class of our Master’s Programme in European and European Legal Studies (MEELS) commenced their course of study at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg at the 9th of October. The students were greeted by ...
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New Nomos release: “Peter Häberle on Constitutional Theory”
Nomos publishing house just released the title “Peter Häberle on Constitutional Theory”, edited by Professor Markus Kotzur. This release finally offers Peter Häberles most important ...
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Markus Kotzur erhält Hamburger Lehrpreis
Bei der 10. Verleihung des Hamburger Lehrpreises ist Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur für seine besonders innovativen Leistungen in der Lehre ausgezeichnet worden. Am 4. Juli bekam er bei einer ...
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We have added a publication to our series of Study Papers, in which we publish selected Master’s theses of graduates of the Master Programme in European and European Legal Studies. This paper was ...
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Welcome reception for MEELS class of 2018
The Class of 2018 of our Master’s Programme in European and European Legal Studies (MEELS) commenced their course of study at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg this October. At the welcome ceremony they were ...
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MEELS: Excursion to the european institutions
The students of our Master Programme European and European Legal Studies (MEELS) visited key European institutions and organisations on a study trip to Luxemburg and Brussels from June 12th to ...
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Peter Behrens Lectures in Budapest
Prof. Dr. Peter Behrens, Director at the Institute for European Integration, is currently and until the end of the month lecturing at the Central European University in Budapest. he is teaching ...
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Claudio Lombardi joins the Institute for European Integration as a Visiting Research Fellow at and will stay through December 2016. His research is financed by a grant of the German Academic ...
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Thomas Bruha to take part in Dublin conference
On September 13th Prof. Dr. Thomas Bruha will be attending a conference at University College Dublin titled „Agents of Coherence in EU Human Rights Policies“. The conference is organized by FP 7 ...
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Giovanni Zampetti is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration and will stay through July 2016. His research is financed by a grant of the German Academic Exchange ...
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A new discussion paper by Marko Milenkovic is online: EU integration and the introduction of State aid control in Serbia – institutional challenges and reform prospects. The paper examines the ...
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We are happy to announce the date for the next Europa-Kolleg Research Seminar: Tuesday, 9th June, 18-19:30h in the library room of the Europa-Kolleg (Windmühlenweg 27, 22607 Hamburg). This time, ...
+ moreAPPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE MASTER PROGRAMME “EUROPEAN AND EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIES” EXTENDED UNTIL 15 APRIL 2014.
The application deadline has been extended. Until the 15th of April interested students can still apply for the Master Programme “European and European Legal Studies”. Further information you can ...
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After a very successful continuation of the Europa-Kolleg Research Seminar in the past month, we are happy to announce that Dr. Dietmar Nickel, Director-General (ret.) of the European Parliament ...
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Konrad Lammers analyses the European elections 2014. His commentary “European elections: National instead of EU perspectives” has been published in the Wirtschaftsdienst 6/2014. +Link...
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