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The Centre for European Governance is an interdisciplinary research centre combining political science, legal, economic and historical approaches to the study of Europe and the European Union. Our aim is to provide usable knowledge for policy-makers and organisations; to engage citizens on the future of the UK in Europe as well as participating in academic debate. These workshops and seminars provide a series of discussions into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU.

23 - 25.06.2021 ECPR 8th Biennial Regulatory Governance Conference organised by the University of Exeter’s Centre for European Governance.

08.04.2021 Seminar on COVID and Euroscepticism

30.03.2021 Seminar on Democratic backsliding in Hungary

29/03/2021 Seminar on the EU’s democratic deficit on their Democracy in the European Union

08/03/2021 Seminar on the European Citizens' Initiative on their Democracy in the European Union

01/03/2021 Seminar on populism and national political parties including interviews with Ben Bradshaw and Alison Harcourt

15/02/2021 Seminar on Europarties on their Democracy in the European Union

26.10.2020 Alison Harcourt interviews Lord Andrew Adonis "Brexit: Will it ever get done?"

18.06.2020 Athanassios Gouglas: Party Change in Europe since 1945.

04.06.2020 Lamprini Rori: Mapping the European far right in Europe

07.05.2020 Sandra Kröger: Membership in the EU post Brexit

26.03.2020 Joasia Luzak: "Piercing the Internet's veil under the New Deal"

12.03.2020 Nicole Bolleyer: Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Europe? National Approaches to the Legal Regulation of Organized Civil Society

12.02.2020 Alison Harcourt: Brexit and the Single Digital Market.

29.01.2020 Michael Winter: The implications for CAP and the farming sector

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23 - 25 June 2021		The 8th Biennial Regulatory Governance Conference sponsored by the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance. The 8th Biennial Regulatory Governance Conference sponsored the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance taking place at the University of Exeter from June 23 until June 25, 2021 http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/research/centres/ceg/ecpr_2019/. Full details	Add event
18 June 2019	18:00	Athanassios Gouglas: Party Change in Europe since 1945 These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU.. Full details	Add event
4 June 2019	18:00	Lamprini Rori: Mapping the European far right in Europe. These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU.. Full details	Add event
7 May 2019	18:00	Sandra Kröger: Membership in the EU post Brexit These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU. Full details	Add event
26 March 2019	18:00	CEG Seminars: Joasia Luzak: Consumer Privacy and Data Protection in the EU (London) Associate Professor Joasia Luzak (University of Exeter) will discuss the New Deal package proposed by the European Commission in 2018 and its chances of increasing transparency in online marketplaces. Full details	Add event
12 March 2019	18:00	Nicole Bolleyer: Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Europe? National Approaches to the Legal Regulation of Organized Civil Society. Long considered a problem of ‘third countries’, concerns about ‘shrinking civil society space’ have moved to the heart of the European Union: confronted with the challenges of terrorism, financial crises and populist governments numerous member states have passed legislation constraining civil society organizations (e.g. EC 2018; CoE 2018; FRA 2018).. Full details	Add event
12 February 2019	18:00	Alison Harcourt: Brexit and the Single Digital Market. Professor Alison Harcourt (University of Exeter) will speak about the roadmap for the EU's Digital Single Market (DSM) outlining different scenarios for the UK’s trade in digital services post-Brexit including discussion of the EU’s recent copyright package, the GDPR, e-privacy revision and audio-visual media services.. Full details	Add event
29 January 2019	18:00	Michael Winter: The implications for CAP and the farming sector Professor Michael Winter (University of Exeter) will explain why CAP is featured as ripe for reform and change in the context of the UK’s Brexit plans. He will consider what that might mean for the future of UK agriculture and the likely divergence in agricultural policy between the UK and the EU post-Brexit.. Full details	Add event
6 June 2018	12:00	Public Policy Seminar Series: Oliver James and Duncan Russel Oliver James, Professor in Political Science: The Data Revolution in Government Performance Reporting: Evidence from Experiments with Citizens and Users. Duncan Russel, Associate Professor in Environmental Policy: The idea of valuing nature in policy making: reflections on 10 years of research. Full details	Add event
21 March 2018	12:30	Public Policy Seminar Series: Oliver James, Professor of Politics The Data Revolution in Government Performance Reporting: Evidence from Experiments with Citizens and Users. Full details	Add event
14 February 2018	12:30	Public Policy Seminar Series: Michael Winter, Professor of Land Economy and Society Agriculture and the Environment in Uncertain Times: Competing Positions in the Brexit Debate. Full details	Add event
7 February 2018	12:30	Public Policy Seminar Series: Sandra Kröger, Senior Lecturer in Politics The Legitimacy of the Brexit Referendum. Full details	Add event
17 January 2018	12:30	Public Policy Seminar Series: Alison Harcourt, Professor of Politics State Steer and IPR Policy in Standard Developing Organisations. Full details	Add event
22 November 2017	12:30	Public Policy Seminar Series: Roberto Baldoli and Claudio Radaelli What's Nonviolence to do with the European Union?. Full details	Add event
3 October 2016	6:45	Alison Harcourt - Global activism: A case study rights technologies The lecture shows a gradual move away from international treaties agreement to self-regulatory of copyright protection in standard developing organisations (SDOs). Full details	Add event
25 May 2016	19:00	The UK and the EU: Ask the Experts Take the opportunity to ask a leading panel of specialists about possible implications of the EU Referendum. Full details	Add event
25 April 2016	19:00	Ask the Experts: The UK and the EU Full details	Add event
9 February 2016	18:00	Ulrich Preuss @ Exeter to talk about Citizens in Europe: An interdisciplinary perspective. This workshop will examine issues of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe from legal, political and sociological perspectives. Professor Ulrich Preuss (Hertie) will discuss with us the themes explored in the new collection of his and Professor Claus Offe’s writings on: Citizens of Europe. Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration (ECPR Press, 2016). Full details	Add event
30 September 2015	14:00	Jean Monnet Chair seminar: Sonja Puntscher Riekmann Money, debt and democracy. How the Eurozone crisis management transforms the political economy and representative democracy of member. Full details	Add event
14 May 2015	16:00	(Guest Speaker) Claudio Radaelli, Editor of the European Journal of Political Research: Publication strategies for PhDs. We have the pleasure to welcome Claudio Radaelli, co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research, to present “Publishing in political science journals: why, how, when". He will tackle both the process and stages to succeed from writing up a dissertation to publishing. Full details	Add event
1 May 2015	8:30	SSIS Politics and International Relations Postgraduate Research Conference 2015 We are pleased to announce that the SSIS Politics & IR Postgraduate Research Conference will be held this year on Friday 1st May 2015.. Full details	Add event
30 April 2015	16:00	Raluca-Florica Popp: Tapping political representation in different electoral setting using VAA generated data. The aim of the paper is to inspect the relationship between institutional design settings and political representation at one hand, and the consequences of representation on European voters’ political behaviour on the other. Full details	Add event
29 April 2015	17:00	Lasok Law Lecture This year’s Lasok lecture will be given by Professor Norbert Reich and is entitled "EU Citizenship - Progressive Concept or Regressive Failure?”. Full details	Add event
2 March 2015	14:00	Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey): Greek Deal Explained We are delighted to welcome back Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey). He will explain the recent deal between the new Greek government and the EU in the context of the Greek political economy of the last decade. Fanis is a very knowledgeable scholar of European / comparative politics - and he is often on radio and TV commenting on Greek politics and the EU. Full details	Add event
25 February 2015	16:00	Dr Christel Koop (Kings College London): The accountability of Independent Regulatory Agencies Dr Koop has written on issues of public policy, democratic legitimacy, voting behaviour in the European parliament and electoral politics generally. Full details	Add event
28 January 2015	15:00	Dr. Raimondas Ibenskas (Exeter): The Effect of Europarties on Inter-Party Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe Full details	Add event
14 January 2015	17:00	Getting the Long View of Politics and Life In and After Parliament: Former MPs Talk and Wine Reception Alan Lee Williams and Sir John Hannam will share their views of politics past and present – both from inside the Westminster bubble and beyond it. They will also talk about the work of the Former MPs Outreach Association. The event will close with questions from the audience, and a wine reception. Full details	Add event
28 November 2014		Professor Claudio Radaelli presents to the Portuguese parliament The report on lawmaking and smart regulation, Feitura das Leis, was inspired by ground-breaking research by the Centre for European Governance. Full details	Add event
19 November 2014	15:00	Dr. Gregorio Bettiza (Exeter): America in a Post - Secular World. Understanding and Explaining the US Foreign Policy Regime Complex on Religion Politics seminar. Full details	Add event
13 November 2014	18:30	SWDTC Workshop: The 'constructivist turn' in the empirical and normative study of political representation Lisa Dish is Professor of Politics at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies. Full details	Add event