Practitioners
Since starting up in 2017, EUR105 has had the pleasure and privilege of inviting many relevant, highly interesting practitioners to hold guest lectures for our students. Below you’ll find a list of all the exciting guests we’ve entertained in this course.
List of invited practitioners
2021
- Federico Pancaldi (European Labour Authority): Labour Mobility in the EU: The Challenges of Enforcement
- Miles Perry (European Commission): Climate Action in the European Union
2020
Miles Perry
- DG Clima, European Commission
- «The EU’s Climate Policy»
(due to the Corona outbreak other scheduled practitioners this year unfortunately had to be cancelled)
2019
Dr. Krzysztof Nowaczek
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
- “The EU’s role in addressing employment and social challenges: a view from the European Commission”
Prof. Dr. Sacha Garben
- Permanent Professor of EU law, Legal Studies Department, College of Europe.
- On leave from the European Commission (Legal Services on EU Labour Law)
- “A Social Europe? A Constitutional and Substantive Assessment of the Balance Between ‘The Social’ and ‘The Economic’ in the European Union”
Dr. Walter Deffaa
- Former Director General of DG Regio
- “EU Cohesion Policy – Past, Present, Future”
2018
Dr. Krzysztof Nowaczek
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
- “The EU’s role in addressing employment and social challenges: a view from the European Commission”
Prof. Dr. Sacha Garben
- Permanent Professor of EU law, Legal Studies Department, College of Europe.
- On leave from the European Commission (Legal Services on EU Labour Law)
- “A Social Europe? A Constitutional and Substantive Assessment of the Balance Between ‘The Social’ and ‘The Economic’ in the European Union”
Dr. Walter Deffaa
- Former Director General of DG Regio
- “EU Cohesion Policy – Past, Present, Future”
2017
Dr. Stan Van Alphen
- Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
- “Soft Measures in Hard Times – Health Policy and the European Semester”
Dr. Krzysztof Nowaczek
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
- “Employment Policies in Turbulent Times”

Guest lecture given in March 2020 by Dr. Miles Perry, policy officer at the European Commission’s DG CLIMA on the topic of the EU climate policy and the EU Green Deal to our EUR105 (Jean Monnet Academic Module) course led by Dr. Raimondas Ibenskas.