Rector Mogherini First Mandate Report
On September 1st, 2025, Rector Federica Mogherini started her second mandate as Rector of the College of Europe. Rector Mogherini's first mandate was marked by important new developments and projects...
Special lectures and events
2025
- European Neighbourhood Chair's Seminar: "Future Enlargements of the EU: Fast-track, Staged or the Usual?" with Prof. Steven BLOCKMANS, Prof. Roman PETROV and Prof. Adam ŁAZOWSKI (15/04/2025)
- Seminar on "Towards a Reset of EU-UK Relations?" with Prof. Catherine BARNARD and Prof. Adam ŁAZOWSKI (31/03/2025)
- Seminar on "International Criminal Justice and the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine" (18/03/2025)
- Discussion on "Georgia at the Crossroads: Will Democracy Prevail Over Authoritarianism?" (27/01/2025)
- Moderated Student Discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (17/01/2025)
- Lecture by Prof. David G. LEWIS: "Occupation: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine" (15/01/2025)
- Workshop: “The New Syria and the European Engagement” (13/01/2025)
- Special Lecture: "A Multilingual, Multicultural Court of Justice for the European Union: United in Diversity" by Prof. Eleanor SHARPSTON KC (10/01/2025)
- Fireside Chat: "A Life...A Journey... In Conversation with Eleanor SHARPSTON KC" (09/01/2025)
- Seminar: "In Search of a Way Forward: Negotiations of the New EU-Switzerland Agreement" with Prof. Christa TOBLER and Prof. Adam ŁAZOWSKI (08/01/2025)
2024
- ENP Debate: "Georgia and Moldova after the Elections: What’s Next for Democracy and European Integration?" (25/11/2024)
- Special Lecture with Prof. Dr Ivanka POPOVIĆ - Eyes Wide Shut: How EU Member States Reject Democracy in the Western Balkans in Favour of Geostrategy (09/10/2024)
- Special Lecture: "The Middle East after October 7th" by Dr Gudrun HARRER moderated by Ambassador Thomas MAYR-HARTING (28/02/2024)
- ENGAGE Stakeholder Workshop: 'Making the Enlargement Policy Credible' in partnership with the European Commission Representation in Warsaw (07/02/2024)
2023
- ENP-led special lecture: “Israel and Palestinian Conflict: Trajectory and Future Prospects” by Mr Marek MATUSIAK (06/12/2023)
- Fireside Chat with French Diplomats on “Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood” (08/11/2023)
- ENP-led special lecture: “Empowering Resilience: Enhancing Ukraine’s Economic Reconstruction and Relief Efforts” by Mr Pierre HEILBRONN, France’s Special Envoy for Ukraine’s Relief and Reconstruction (04/10/2023)
2022
- “Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space: Current Challenges and Future Prospects”, Guest Lecture by Dr Adam BOWER (26/04/2022)
- ENP Chair Round-table: "The EU and the Middle East and North Africa: Past, Present and Future Entanglements and Challenges" (25/04/2022)
- ENP Chair High-Level Lecture by Prof. Jamie SHEA: "Ukraine, Russia and NATO: War in Europe" (02/03/2022)
- “Ukraine Invaded: Context and Consequences - A Conversation with Natolin Professors” (28/02/2022)
2021
- Natolin Academy of Migration Roundtable: "The pandemic and its implications for migrants' access to rights" (23/3/2021)
- ENP Chair High-Level Talk with Mr Thomas de WAAL: "The Nagorny Karabakh Conflict. From Hot War to Cold Peace?" (9/2/2021)
- Natolin Academy of Migration Roundtable: "The New Strategy of the European Union on 'forced returns'" (27/1/2021)
- Débat – « 10 ans après la révolution en Tunisie : quel bilan ? » (14/1/2021)
2020
- ENP Chair High-Level Talk by Mr Vladislav KULMINSKI: "Quo vadis? Moldova after the 2020 Presidential Elections" (19/11/2020)
- Atelier sur la migration et l'asile par la Natolin Academy of Migration (9/11/2020)
2019
- Special Workshop: "Expulsion Under Scrutiny: Highlighting the Grey Zone" (22/11/2019)
- Special lecture by Dr Emile BADARIN: "Palestinian Political Discourse: Then and Now" (13/03/2019)
- Special lecture by Dr Emile BADARIN: "Politics of Resilience and its Disciplinary Power in the Context of EU Foreign Policy toward the Southern Neighbourhood" (19/02/2019)
- High-Level Lecture by Dr Anaïs MARIN entitled "Domestic drivers of Belarus' foreign policy balancing" (3/4/2019)
2018
- Special Lecture by Dr Adam BOWER: "Norms Without the Great Powers" (20/11/2018)
- Special Talk organised by the Natolin Academy of Migration with Mr Ryszard CHOLEWIŃSKI on "Labour Migration in the Middle East in light of the Global Compact on Migration" (13/11/2018)
- "Meet the Authors" with Dr Ostap KUSHNIR: "Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break" (17/04/2018)
2017
- ENP Chair Literary Talk on the Human(e) Dimension of the War in Ukraine: "AMOR[T]E: A Tale of Love in A Wartime Donetsk" (20/2/2017)
- Morning coffee with Mr Mario ABOU ZEID, Advisor to the Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon (20/1/2017)
2015
- ENP Chair Lecture by Prof. Merje KUUS: "How Do Diplomats Know What They Know? Expertise and Authority in Europe’s External Relations" (1/10/2015)
- ENP Chair Lecture by Prof. Andreas UMLAND: "Russian Foreign Policy, Ukraine's Europeanization and the EU's Eastern Partnership Program: Lost In Translation?" (15/4/2015)
- ENP Chair Lecture by Dr Sabine FREIZER: "The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Revisited?" (15/1/2015)
2014
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