Political Science

European Politics

patchung — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:09:41 +0000

On September 19, 2024, Glendon students had the opportunity to speak to the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luminita Odobescu in the context of the course “European Politics” taught by Prof. Dan Berbecel. Some of the topics of discussion included Romania’s membership in the EU and NATO, and the war in Ukraine. After a short lecture, students had the opportunity to interact with the Minister and ask questions. At the event were also present the Romanian Ambassador to Canada, as well as the Consul General of Romania in Toronto.

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Why we should care about this week’s European Parliament elections

pandassi — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:40:32 +0000

Read here.�ճ��European Parliament (EP) elections being held this week will likely alter the political orientation of the European Union’s main legislative and budgetary authority, the only directly elected EU body.

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Student Wins $700 Prize for Outstanding Academic Essay

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:55:10 +0000

Last year's winner was PoliSci major Zipporah Davis — read the whole story here.

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Political Science Social

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:25:55 +0000

An informal social gathering to welcome in the new year was held on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 in the Senior Common Room, 317 York Hall, Glendon Campus.

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30 Years of EU Citizenship and Free Movement for EU Citizens

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:05:09 +0000

Ferdinand Wollenschläger
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 11am-noon, Glendon College (Senior Common Room - Petit Salon, York Hall 310).

The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Union citizenship and the Union citizens’ right to free movement attached to it, both institutionalised with the Treaty of Maastricht which entered into force on 1 November 1993. In view of this occasion, the lecture will on the one hand explore the development of free movement of Union citizens in the last 30 years, a core guarantee of EU law, daily exercised by millions of EU citizens, but also subject to fierce legal and political debates, notably in view of migration of economically inactive Union citizens and their claim to social solidarity in other Member States. On the other hand, the lecture will put Union citizenship and the Union citizens’ right to free movement into the broader perspective of EU integration and explore this guarantee (i) as a new fundamental freedom beyond market integration (ii), in the wider context of free movement in Europe and with regard to its relationship (iii) with Union Citizenship and (iv) fundamental rights protection.

Professor Wollenschläger holds a chair for Public Law, European Law, and Public Economic Law at the University of Augsburg, where he also serves as Dean of the law school. He also acts as Director of the Institute of Public Law and as Co-Director of both the Institute for Bio, Health and Medical Law and of the ACELR (Augsburg Center for Global Economic Law and Regulation). He teaches courses on European Union, constitutional, and administrative law. Besides his dissertation (on EU citizenship and free movement) he has co-authored monographs on contracts in planning law and on same-sex marriage, co-edited books on Public Economic Law and on the Public Law of Bavaria, and published articles on EU Fundamental Rights, Union Citizenship, the Internal Market (Free Movement of Persons, Public Procurement) and further issues of EU and national economic law, European and national administrative law, federalism-related issues of German Constitutional Law, constitutional issues of Germany’s participation in European integration, health law and on the conflict of fundamental rights regimes in the European multilevel system.

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First-hand study of the Netherlands and the European Union

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:37:54 +0000

When you’re learning about the political, social and economic transformations in the European Union (EU), where better to do it than in the heart of the EU itself? A group of �첥��Ƶ students had that chance as part of a study abroad experience.

https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2022/11/30/students-study-netherlands-and-european-union-first-hand

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