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Hi listeners, my name is Alison Haskins and I am the International Education Program Coordinator for UNC Chapel Hill's Center for European Studies.

In this episode of EU today, I will be interviewing Joseph Dunn, Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C.

The European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C., also known as EPLO, is responsible for facilitating the development and strengthening of relations between the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament on issues calling for transatlantic legislative and political cooperation.

It contributes to the development of a transatlantic network of legislators

and legislative staffers focused on issues that require legislative and political cooperation.

Joseph Dunn is director of the Uplo office. In 2018, Joseph was a senior resident fellow at the

German Marshall Fund in D.C. and a visiting fellow at the Sharr School of Policy and

Government at George Mason University. Up to that time, Joseph was a director in the Directorate

General for European Parliamentary Research Service. He was previously head of Secretariat for the

Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and Deputy Chief to Cabinet for EP President

Pat Cox.

Before the Parliament, Joseph Dunn served in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.

He edited the first edition of mapping the Today podcast with UNC Center for European Studies.

My name is Alison Haskins and I'm the International Education Program Coordinator for the Center.

And today I'm joined by Joseph Dunn, Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C. Welcome, Joe.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Alison, thank you for having me today. Yeah, you're so welcome. We're thrilled to have you. I think I'll go ahead and jump into the conversation here just by asking you if you could tell us a little bit about the European Parliament Liaison Office and its work.

Sure, Alison, thank you. Yes, we call ourselves EPLO, which is the abbreviation for European Parliament Liaison Office.

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