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Jean Monnet Chair Current Activities

Jean Monnet Chair Current Activities

 

Profile || Activities 2022-2025 || Activities 2016-2019

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Event Dates
Giacomo Benedetto has authored a briefing on the Crisis of the European Commission’s Audit in 1999 and presents this evidence to the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee

24 September, starting at 15h22

Giacomo Benedetto has co-authored an open-access article with David Moloney in West European Politics on the EU’s response to the pandemic and rule-of-law crisis of 2020 through functional spill-over

4 July 2025

Are they worth it? Democratic and audit-based accountabilities in the EU’s finances

19 June 2025, 10am - 3:30pm

Royal Holloway, University of London

11 Bedford Square,

London WC1B 3RB

EU Foreign and Security Policy, a view from the inside

4 April 2025, 11am - noon

Founders Lecture Theatre

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Europe and South Asia: challenges and political change

27 March 2025, 6–7 pm

Moore Annex Lecture Theatre

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Student visit to European Parliament Liaison Office of the UK

21 March 2025

European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom

32 Smith Square

Westminster

London SW1P 3EU

Students in Conversation with Lord Neil Kinnock, former Leader of the Labour Party and Vice President of the European Commission

18 February 2025, 5:10pm

Moore Auditorium

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Britain, Europe, and Global Security towards 2030

The Jean Monnet Annual Lecture by the Rt Hon. the Baroness Ashton of Upholland LG GCMG

4 February 2025, 5:10pm 

Moore Auditorium 

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Populism and the Elections of 2024 in Britain and Europe

15 October 2024

Founders Lecture Theatre

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Sixth-Form Event on Populism and the Elections of 2024 in Britain and Europe

4th October 2024

European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom

32 Smith Square

Westminster

London SW1P 3EU

Britain and the EU: Where did it all go wrong? A discussion with students led by Visiting Professor Robert Evans

Robert Evans is a Visiting Professor of Politics at RHUL. He also leads the Labour Group on Surrey County Council and was from 1994 until 2009, a Labour Member of the European Parliament for London. At this evening event, Robert will take questions and will reminisce about Britain’s membership of the EU and the factors that led to Brexit.

26 March 2024, 6.15pm

Moore Annex Lecture Theatre

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

The EU as a global actor in foreign policy and international security


The Jean Monnet Annual Lecture by His Excellency Pedro Serrano, the Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Jean Monnet Annual Lecture this year takes the form of a debate in which the ambassador will discuss with students international diplomacy and global challenges, including security, Ukraine and the Middle East, migration, AI, and climate change.

A reception will follow this lecture.

12 March 2024, 5:05pm

Shilling Building Auditorium

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Brexit and the UK’s future relationship with the European Union

The Jean Monnet Annual Lecture by the Rt Hon John Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons. The event is organised by the Jean Monnet Chair at Royal Holloway and is co-funded by the European Union. All welcome, admission is free, but booking is essential.

 

17 January 2023, 6pm

Windsor Auditorium

Royal Holloway, Egham campus

Martyn Bond: What is Europe For? Federalism and the Europe of Today

Martyn Bond’s career included periods as the BBC’s correspondent in Berlin during the Cold War in the 1980s and Head of the European Parliament’s Representation in London in the 1990s. Martyn is the biographer of one of the fathers of European federalism, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. In his talk, Martyn will offer insights from his career and from his own research into the movement for a federal Europe that began after the end of the First World War. After the talk, questions and answers will follow. This talk is organized for students and staff at Royal Holloway, University of London by the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Cred (Crisis, Recovery and European Democracy). It is co-funded by the European Union. 

 

1 December 2022, 6pm-7.30pm

MS Teams

Italy’s Elections, 2022: Perspectives and Challenges after the Victory of the Populist Right

In this online workshop, Giacomo Benedetto (Jean Monnet Chair, Royal Holloway), Marianna Griffini (King’s College London), and Marco Guglielmo (Royal Holloway) will discuss the implications of the recent elections in Italy. The event is chaired by Royal Holloway’s Laura Serra. It is open to students and staff at Royal Holloway.

18 October 2022, 6pm-7pm

 MS Teams

 

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