What Every American Should Know About the EU
The Policy and Administration Graduate Council is pleased to invite faculty and students to the presentation "What Every American Should Know About the EU," presented by Marco Fantini, the representative of the European Commission. The presentation will touch upon the most pressing problems of the European integration processes and discuss the perspectives of the US-EU cooperation.
Marco Fantini is currently a visiting fellow at Yale and works at the European Commission in Brussels. After completing his studies in international economics at Bocconi University in Milan, where he also worked at the Institute for Stock Exchange Studies, Mr. Fantini was recruited by the Barclays Bank industrial credit department. In 1994, he joined the European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where he was responsible for the economic analysis of Germany (1994-1999) and subsequently of Russia, Moldova and Belarus (1999-2004). Since 2005, he has been working on EU tax policy at the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs, where he is head of the sector dealing with quantitative analysis. Mr. Fantini has published a book on the interplay of national strategies, alliances and interests within the EU and papers on the Russian economy, on EU-Russia relations and on EU relations with neighboring countries (the EU Neighborhood Policy). He has taught courses on EU policy at various Moscow universities.
This event is free and open to all.
Questions? Please contact Elena Kvochko at ekvochko@pubpol.umass.edu, or Anna Tomaskovic-Devey at annatomaskovicdevey@gmail.com.