A New Agenda and a New Team: The EU After Elections and Commission Renewal

This talk will focus on the newly elected European Parliament and newly inaugurated Commission, as well as EU-US relations.

Joseph Dunne has served as director of the European parliament’s liaison office (EPLO) in Washington D.C. since October 2019. The EPLO was set up to foster and develop relations between the European Parliament (EP) and the United States Congress, from October 1, 2019. In 2018, Joseph was a Senior Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Up to that time, Joseph was a Director in the Directorate General for European Parliamentary Research Service. He was previously head of secretariat for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and deputy chef de cabinet for EP President Pat Cox. Before the Parliament, Joseph Dunne served in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. He edited the first edition of Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe in April 2014.

This event is co-sponsored by European Horizons at Carolina.

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