European Studies Students Research Visit to the EU Institutions

Between 1-5 April 2013, organized by the Sabancı University Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (SUCEES), a group of European Studies MA students along with Political Science PhD and MA students visited Brussels and held meetings with officials from the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament. 

 In these meetings, the students were able to discuss such issues as the European Union’s foreign policy, human rights issues, development aid, enlargement, and the future of Turkey the European Union with high level EU officials, and were able to use and compare their theoretical knowledge vis-a-vis empirical realities of European integration.