{"id":5638,"date":"2020-01-14T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:52:09","slug":"brussels-trip-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2020\/01\/14\/brussels-trip-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels Trip December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2020\/01\/group-photo-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2020\/01\/group-photo-for-blog.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2020\/01\/group-photo-for-blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the\n9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and 10<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;of December 2019, 35 students from\nour 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;year, together with our MSc\nstudents, went to Brussels to speak to representatives from the UK\nRepresentation in Brussels, EU institutions and to see how the EU works in\npractice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the\nfirst day we visited the Welsh Office in Brussels, where representatives from\nthe UK Representation welcomed us. We had further speakers from the European\nCommission, including DG Grow and DG Near dealing with EU space policy and the\nEU\u2019s enlargement and neighbourhood policy. Each speaker presented the area they\nwork in briefly, and what the EU is doing in terms of policies and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day\nconcluded with a city tour, starting at the Grand Place in the centre of\nBrussels, where we learnt more about the history of Brussels and how it has\nchanged over time, not least as a result of being the capital of the European\nUnion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the\nsecond day we welcomed Dr Tarik Meziani from the Council of the EU\u2019s Integrated\nPolitical Crisis Response team. He briefed the students on how the EU\u2019s crisis\nresponse works and what lessons have been learnt in recent years. After his\ntalk, we went to the European Parliament, where we visited the Parliamentarium,\nwhich is the documentation centre of the EP. We saw the original copy of the\nSchuman Declaration as well as other key documents of the EU. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ntrip was funded by our Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Policy, which is\npart of the Erasmus+ funding we have been awarded for 2017-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to thank the UK Representation to the EU, the Wales Office in Brussels, all of our speakers, and particularly John Maas for their contribution to the success of this study trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 9th&nbsp;and 10th&nbsp;of December 2019, 35 students from our 2nd&nbsp;and 3rd&nbsp;year, together with our MSc students, went to Brussels to speak to representatives from the UK Representation in Brussels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,33],"tags":[321,829,1277,1769,2350],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-teaching","tag-brussels","tag-european-union","tag-jean-monnet","tag-politics","tag-student-trips"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Laura Cashman","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"On the 9th&nbsp;and 10th&nbsp;of December 2019, 35 students from our 2nd&nbsp;and 3rd&nbsp;year, together with our MSc students, went to Brussels to speak to representatives from the UK Representation in Brussels, [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}