Ulrike Guérot, “The German Presidency of the EU at Mid-Point”

Sponsored by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism and the Center for German and European Studies in coordination with the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence as part of the #JMintheUS collaborative lecture series.

Dr. Ulrike Guérot is professor at the Danube University in Krems, Austria and head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. Moreover, she is the founder of the European Democracy Lab in Berlin, a think-tank generating innovative ideas for Europe. Besides working and teaching at universities in Europe and the United States, Ulrike Guérot has worked at and directed several European research institutes and think tanks. Her books (“Why Europe Must Become a Republic” in 2016 and “The New Civil War – the Open Europe and its Enemies” in 2017) hit best-selling marks in Germany and beyond. Her work has been widely translated and published throughout Europe.