{"id":488465,"date":"2025-10-10T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488465\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:48:18","slug":"ukice-lunch-hour-the-state-of-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488465\/","title":{"rendered":"UKICE Lunch Hour: the state of the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year into Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s second term, the European Union is (as so often in recent times) confronting profound economic, political, security and social challenges.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the key challenges ? Are EU plans to face them fit for purpose? What impact will domestic crises \u2013 such as that unfolding in France \u2013 have? And how will developments within the EU impact relations with the UK and other European partners?<\/p>\n<p>Join our expert panel as they assess the state of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anand Menon, UK in a Changing Europe (chair)<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Zuleeg, European Policy Centre<\/li>\n<li>Christine Reh, Hertie School<\/li>\n<li>More speakers to be announced!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can sign up via Eventbrite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/ukice-lunch-hour-the-state-of-the-european-union-tickets-1777346343759?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"button button--shadow button--shadow--blue\" href=\"https:\/\/ukandeu.ac.uk\/event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BACK TO ALL EVENTS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year into Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s second term, the European Union is (as so often in recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-488465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350189295621291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}