THESEUS - establishing a European society

You want to get detailed infomation on single panels of the THESEUS Final Conference? Please visit our website for the now available detailed report.

It being the last publication of the successful nine year scientific programme THESEUS, we would like to thank you once again for your great engagement in more than 50 project activities! It have been very enriching debates on challenges of European integration and we would be delighted to see you in future events of THESEUS’ follow-up project Eucopas - Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence: Cologne - Paris.

Of course, you can still visit the THESEUS project website for all information on past seminars, conferences, workshops and lectures.

Home At the THESEUS Final Conference on 17 and 18 March 2016 at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne more than 100 international scientists, politicians, students and interested citizens have met to discuss past and expectable future developments of European integration and disintegration processes. T...

More than 100 international academics, politicians, young researchers, and the interested public have come together at the THESEUS Final Conference to discuss past and possible future developments of European integration and disintegration processes. At which conclusions did they arrive? Will the EU overcome current "crises"? http://theseus.uni-koeln.de/232.0.html

Rector of the renowned College of Europe Jörg Monar discusses the nature of the EU's inter-institutional dynamics with fellow scientific colleagues and an interested audience at the THESEUS Final Conference on 17 March 2016 at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne. Impressions of this and further panels shortly on www.theseus.uni-koeln.de.

The THESEUS Final Conference "The European Union between Integration and Disintegration – Reflections on the last decade and beyond" on 17 and 18 March 2016 at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne is about to get started. We are looking forward to two days of interesting debates with more than 100 international speakers and guests!

The time has come: After nine years of successful project work, the THESEUS programme is coming to an end. Look back with us on more than 50 activities and reflect on expectable future challenges of European integration at the THESEUS Final Conference on 17 and 18 March 2016. Apply now or follow the event on our website or Facebook. We thank you for having been part of this great project experience – let the network exist beyond THESEUS' project term! http://theseus.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=232.

The THESEUS team wishes you all nice holidays and a successful and happy new year. We thank you for the good cooperation in 2015 and are looking forward to continuing this within the framework of already planned activities and new initiatives in 2016. Please have a look at the fourth edition of our newsletter: http://theseus.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=216.

"The right of free movement is such a high good that we should not risk by starting to close borders again" – Prof Vassilios Skouris. http://theseus.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=229.

"For me ‘European’ means that – despite not agreeing in every detail – we can sit together and discuss peacefully, because in the end we share common values", said former President of the European Court of Justice Prof Vassilios Skouris at a THESEUS public lecture on 19 November 2015.
On the occasion of recent developments in the European Union such as the large refugee movement the lecture discussed the judicial and normative character of the European Union.

You are interested in discussing judicial and normative questions concerning the refugee movement to Europe with one of the leading experts in the field of EU law?
Do not miss your chance to register for tonight's lecture with former President of the European Court of Justice Prof Vassilios Skouris at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne: “Die Europäische Union als Rechts- und Wertegemeinschaft?”, http://fts.veranstaltungs-anmeldung.de/event.php?vnr=39-10a.

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The former President of the European Court of Justice Vassilios Skouris discusses judicial and normative questions concerning the large number of refugees coming to Europe:
“Die Europäische Union als Rechts- und Wertegemeinschaft?” on 19 November 2015, 7pm, at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne. Registration and further information: www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de. The lecture will be held in German.

Two highly renowned experts, two backgrounds and one opinion: The Eurozone is based on fundamental construction errors. Why explained Prof Tsoukalis, ELIAMEP, and Prof Streeck, former director of the MPIfG, at a THESEUS public lecture at the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne: http://theseus.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=228.