Debate: Election year 2017: away with the status quo?
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The Council of the European Union
What changes in the European power balance after the 2017 elections in the Netherlands, France, Great Britain and Germany? How does the shifting powerbalance affect the course of events in the EU? And how do the Netherlands fit in the picture?
Mathieu Segers1, Michèle de Waard, and Kathalijne Buitenweg2 discussed these questions on 4 October 2017. Max van Weezel led the debate.
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- 1.Mathieu Segers is professor contemporaine Europese geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Maastricht. Zijn specialismen zijn de na-oorlogse betrekkingen tussen West-Duitsland en Frankrijk en de transatlantische verhoudingen in het licht van de Europese integratie. Voor zijn boek over Nederland en de Europese integratie ontving Segers in 2013 de prijs voor beste politieke boek. Er verschenen ook enkele artikelen van zijn hand in landelijke dagbladen over de euro en recente ontwikkelingen in de Europese integratie.
- 2.Kathalijne Buitenweg (1970) was a member of the European Parliament from 20 July 1999 to 14 July 2009 as an independent member, and was aligned with the Greens/European Free Alliance. She took seat in Parliament on behalf of the Netherlands.