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14 Temmuz 2016

IKV SECRETARY-GENERAL PARTICIPATED IN JEAN MONNET SEMINAR AT BILGI UNIVERSITY

The seminar titled “European Governance after Brexit” organized by Istanbul Bilgi University’s Jean Monnet Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Senem Aydin Duzgit on 14 July 2016, aimed to tackle the condition of EU integration in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

IKV Secretary-General Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Nas made a presentation during the Jean Monnet seminar about the issue of EU’s migration governance and effects of the Brexit vote. She argued that with increasing levels of migration towards the EU, it became much more challenging for EU institutions to govern this area within the framework of a proper balance between security and freedom. The right-wing, anti-EU and anti-immigration rhetoric that determined the result of the British referendum on EU membership constitutes a limiting factor in the formulation of a progressive migration policy.

Other speakers at the seminar were Prof. Thomas Diez from Tubingen University and Assist. Prof. Dr. Başak Alpan from Middle East Technical University. Prof. Diez explained how the Brexit referendum took place, which factors were important factors in the vote to leave the EU and the probable effects of Brexit on EU governance. Assist. Prof. Dr. Alpan analysed the Brexit process in terms of European identity and concluded that this may be an opportunity for Europe to reassert itself and place the EU project on a stronger basis.