G|M|F Webinar: Webinar: Team Europe Working Around the Clock
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The European & Eurasian Studies Program, and the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence would like to share this upcoming webinar on "Team Europe Working Around the Clock: How the EU and Its Member States Are Supporting the Global Fight against the Coronavirus" organized by the Marshall Fund of the United States.
WEBINAR
Wednesday June 10, 2020 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. EDT | 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. CEST
Team Europe Working Around the Clock: How the EU and Its Member States Are Supporting the Global Fight against the Coronavirus
- Christian Danielsson
Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), European Commission
- Koen Doens
Director-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), European Commission
- Paraskevi Michou
Director-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), European Commission
- Stavros Lambrinidis
Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, European External Action Service
- Karen Donfried
President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Jonathan Katz
Senior Fellow, Frontlines of Democracy Initiative, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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The German Marshall Fund of the United States invites you to a timely virtual conversation focused on "Team Europe," the European Union’s global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Since the beginning of this crisis, the EU has been a leader at the forefront in its neighborhood and internationally, providing humanitarian assistance, supporting partners, and addressing the serious challenges posed by the pandemic. The EU's coordinated approach as "Team Europe" has also led efforts to create international solidarity and strengthen global cooperation to address instability and insecurity created by the pandemic. Our conversation with the EU’s director-general for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO), director-general for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), and the director-general for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR) will focus on the EU’s far-reaching global efforts in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East to provide critical coronavirus related assistance. Join us to learn more about Team Europe and the EU’s global coronavirus strategy going forward and how coordinated EU assistance efforts are having an immediate impact, including saving lives, protecting populations, and addressing the economic fallout of the pandemic.
If you have any questions, please contact John Alexander at jalexander@gmfus.org.
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The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) strengthens transatlantic cooperation on regional, national, and global challenges and opportunities in the spirit of the Marshall Plan.
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Christian Danielsson Christian Danielsson has led the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations since 2013. Since 1995, he has served in the European Institutions in roles as the Deputy Secretary-General or the Secretariat-General, Head of Unit managing the accession process with Turkey, Deputy Head of Cabinet to Commission Vice-President Verheugen, and as a Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Grading. He was also the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the EU from 2008 to 2010 and filled various roles in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs before join the EU institutions.
Koen Doens Koen Doens has been the Director-General for International Cooperation and Development since October, 2019. He has previously served in the Directorate-General as the Deputy Director-General for Africa, Asia, Middle East/Gulf, Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Director for EU-Africa Relations, East and Southern Africa. He first joined the European Instituions in 2004, serving in that time as Head of Cabinet first to Commisioner Louis Michel and then to Commissioner Karel de Gucht. He previously served int he Belgian diplomatic service and as a professor of Latin and Greek at the beginning of his career.
Paraskevi Michou Paraskevi Michou has been Director-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations since January, 2020, previously serving as Director-General Migration and Home Affairs from 2018. She joined the European Insitutions in 1995, holding several posts, including those working on migration and security, the Digital Single Market, Transport and Mobility, and Institutional and Administrative Policies within the Commission. She has also held positions within the Directorate-General Communication Networks, Content, and Technology and several other agencies of the Commission.
Stavros Lambrinidis Stavros Lambrinidis has been the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March, 2019, having previously served as the EU's Special Repesentative for Human Rights. Prior joining the EEAS, he was the Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece in 2011. He was also twice elected as a Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2011. He began his career in Washington, DC, going on to fill various posts at the Greek Foreign Ministry and serving from 2000 to 2004 as the Director-General of the International Olympic Truce Centre.
