The European Parliament - An introduction

EU TO CAMPUS

EPLO Washington DC

Government

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The European Parliament may be obscure to many Americans, but it is one of the most important legislative institutions in the world, tasked with co-adopting EU laws, setting standards and promoting values that go well beyond the EU’s political borders. The embodiment of European style democracy, it is within the Parliament's chambers that European citizens from all the 27 EU Member States are represented. In this second episode we sat down with Kaitlin Alper, a lecturer and doctoral candidate in political science at the university of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She gives us a snapshot of this unique institution, outlining powers, development and structures often using useful comparisons with the US Congress which facilitates an easier understanding by US students.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to EU to Campus, a podcast by the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C.
0:18.6	I'm Joe Dunn. I'm the director, and the main mission of this office is to foster and build up relations
0:26.6	between the European Parliament and the US Congress.
0:29.6	At the same time, we're also providing information and building up awareness
0:33.6	in the US about the European Union,
0:36.6	especially in relation to democratic values and transatlantic
0:40.1	cooperation. This series of podcast is intended primarily to help you the students out there who are in
0:48.8	the US studying and following European Union affairs. So we hope we can help you by focusing on issues and events
0:56.7	that go into making our union one step at a time, one day at a time.
1:01.9	And to do that, we'll be talking to EU experts, EU parliamentarians and EU scholars.
1:08.1	We hope you'll find it useful.
1:09.9	Enjoy listening.
1:23.3	Hello listeners. My name is Ryan Mayluck and I'm Senior Outreach Advisor at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C. In this second episode of EU to campus, I will be talking with Caitlin Alper, who is a PhD student
1:33.1	and teaches undergraduates at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
1:38.2	Prior to coming to North Carolina, Caitlin received a BA from the University of Connecticut
1:43.4	and a Master of Science and Politics and Public Policy from the Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland.
1:50.0	Caitlin's research interests are in comparative political economy and welfare state politics in Western Europe,
1:57.0	and its intersection with multi-level governance and decentralization.
2:06.9	Any views or opinions expressed in the EU-to-campus podcast are the personal opinions of our guests and hosts
2:14.4	and do not necessarily reflect the position of the European Parliament, its members,
2:20.3	or its political groups.
2:26.3	Caitlin, welcome to our podcast.
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