INSITER Coordinators at the SUMMIT Conference in Berlin

On January 16 and 17, 2017, the coordinators of INSITER, Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Turhan and Asst. Prof. Dr. Wulf Reiners, participated in the  dissemination conference of the Jean Monnet Project ‘SUMMIT’ in Berlin, Germany. The conference gathered leading EU-practitioners and academics, practitioners  producing study material, students and an interested public. Turhan acted as a panelist at the session “The European Council in times of crises“, while Reiners served as a discussant at the session “Teaching the European Council: Approaches and tools”.

Roundtable Discussion on the European Council and Turkey’s Accession Process

On November 22, 2016 the public roundtable discussion „Changing the Map. The European Council’s role in Turkey’s accession process and Brexit” took place at the Turkish-German University in cooperation with the SUMMIT Project of the University of Cologne. Moderated by Asst. Prof. Dr. Deniz Kuru, member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels (Senior INSITER Scholar, CETEUS / University of Cologne) and Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Turhan (INSITER academic co-coordinator) discussed the role of the European Council in view of both the enlargement of the European Union as well as the Brexit process. Read More