Hello, welcome to EU to Campus, a podcast by the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C.

I'm Joe Dunn. I'm the director, and the main mission of this office is to foster and build up relations

between the European Parliament and the US Congress.

At the same time, we're also providing information and building up awareness

in the US about the European Union,

especially in relation to democratic values and transatlantic

cooperation. This series of podcast is intended primarily to help you the students out there who are in the US

studying and following European Union affairs. So we hope we can help you by focusing on issues and events

that go into making our union one step at a time, one day at a time.

And to do that, we'll be talking to EU experts, EU parliamentarians and EU scholars.

We hope you'll find it useful.

Enjoy listening.

Thank you. EU scholars. We hope you'll find it useful. Enjoy listening. Hi listeners. My name is Ryan Meilak and I'm Senior Outreach Advisor at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, DC. In this first episode of EU to campus, I would be talking with Professor Desmond Dynan,

who is a professor of public policy and Jean Monnet Chair at the Scarce School of Policy

and Government of George Mason University.

Professor Dynan is known by European studies, students and scholars around the world

for his research and number of publications on European integration and its history.

He has been an advisor to the European Commission in Brussels,

a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations in The Hague,

and he was also a visiting professor at the College of Europe.

His research interests include the historiography of European integration,

the history of the European Union, institutions and governance of the EU,

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