HOW EUROPE WORKS FOR EaP COUNTRIES

HOW EUROPE WORKS:

A FIRST-HAND PERSPECTIVE ON EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS 2017

02-05 October (Monday-Thursday) in Budapest

The Robert Schuman Institute (RSI), with the support of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (WMCES) and the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s Party (PolAk) organised an introductory seminar (Budapest)  under the tile “How Europe Works: A First-Hand Perspective on EU Institutions” between 02-05 October, 2017. The  first part of the series of two events  provided a good basic of EU knowledge for a group of 15 people with relevant duties / functions in EPP sister parties in the following Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The group had the chance to learn in deep the decision makin mechanisms of the main European Institutions, met field experts on the Eastern Partnership and Neighbood Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, met Members of the Hungarian Parliament to discuss its relations with EaP. The same group will meet in early November in Brussels under a format of a study visit to experience everything by they own eyes they whitnessed in Budapest.