The Treaty on European Union (2007) is one of the primary Treaties of the European Union,alongside the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The TEU forms the basis of EU law,by setting out general principles of the EU's purpose,the governance of its central institutions,as well as the rules on external,foreign and security policy.
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is the organised,agreed foreign policy of the European Union (EU) for mainly security and defence diplomacy and actions. CFSP deals only with a specific part of the EU's external relations,which domains include mainly Trade and Commercial Policy and other areas such as funding to third countries,etc. Decisions require unanimity among member states in the Council of the European Union,but once agreed,certain aspects can be further decided by qualified majority voting. Foreign policy is chaired and represented by the EU's High Representative,currently Josep Borrell.
Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician who has been the ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. He was previously the European Union special representative for human rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Greece from June 2011 to November 2011.
Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. He is a Professor of international human rights law,European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium,as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He is the first chair of the Belgian Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development and he co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food),a group of experts from various disciplines and regions who work together towards developing proposals for food systems reform. A Member of the UN Committee on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and 2020,he was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,and took up his functions on May 1,2020.
Maria Renske "Marietje" Schaake is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. She is a member of Democrats 66,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
European Union–Pakistan relations are the international relations between the common foreign policy and trade relations of the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium.
Annemie Turtelboom is a former Belgian minister,who is currently serving as the Belgian Member of The European Court of Auditors since 2018.
The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies is an interfaculty interdisciplinary research centre of the Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven,Belgium. It carries out and supports interdisciplinary research on topics related to globalization,global governance processes and multilateralism,and has been recognized as a KU Leuven Centre of Excellence.
Reinhilde Veugelers is a Belgian economist and Professor of Managerial Economics,Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium,known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.
Geert Van Calster is a Belgian lawyer and legal scholar,focusing on conflict of laws,international trade law,EU and international environmental law,and EU economic law. He is full professor of Law at KU Leuven,was the head of its department of European and International Law for 11 years between 2009 and 2020,and is a senior fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies. He is a former director of the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at KU Leuven and former program director for the Master of Energy and Environmental Law (2002-2012). He is also a visiting professor at Monash University (Melbourne),the China-EU School of Law in Beijing,and at King's College London. He is adjunct professor at American University and a former visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford. Between 1994 and 2015,he was affiliated as of counsel (practising) with international law firms,respectively SJ Berwin;Andersen Legal;Dibb,Lupton,Alsop;and DLA Piper. He now runs his own,independent legal practice. He was called to the bar in 1999.
Hans Emiel Aloysius Bruyninckx is a Belgian political scientist and international relations scholar specialized in international environmental governance and European environmental politics. He has headed the European Environment Agency since 2013. While in this position,he is on leave from his posts as Professor of International Relations and Global Environmental Governance,Institute for International and European Policy;and Director,Research Institute for Work and Society,both at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Christophe Crombez is a political economist at KU Leuven and Stanford University.
Raffaele Marchetti is an Italian political scientist and editorialist.
Angelina Julietta Francisca Eichhorst is a Dutch diplomat and European civil servant,currently the managing director for Europe and Central Asia at the European External Action Service in Brussels,Belgium.
François Crépeau,is a Canadian lawyer and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University,as well as a former Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
Erik Duval was a Belgian computer scientist. Duval chaired the informatics section of the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,where he also chaired the research unit on human-computer interaction. His research tried to augment the human intellect.
Conny Clara Aerts,born 26 January 1966,is a Belgian (Flemish) professor in astrophysics. She specialises in asteroseismology. She is associated with KU Leuven and Radboud University,where she leads the Chair in the Astroseismology group. In 2012,she became the first woman to be awarded the Francqui Prize in the category of Science &Technology. In 2022,she became the third woman to be awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her work in asteroseismology.
Valeria Pulignano is an Italian-born sociologist,full Professor of Sociology at the University of Leuven,Belgium,and author of numerous publications on comparative industrial relations,labour markets and employment in Europe. She was formerly (2013–2017) scientific director of the Center for Social Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven. She is Specialty Chief Editor of the "Work,Employment and Organization" section of Frontiers in Sociology,co-coordinator of the RN17 Work,Employment and Industrial Relations at the European Sociological Association (ESA) and principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Research Project “Revolving Precariousness:Advancing the Theory and Measurement of Precariousness Across the Paid/Unpaid Continuum”(ResPecTMe).
Heather Grabbe is Senior Fellow at the think-tank Bruegel in Brussels,Belgium. Since 2021,she is Visiting Professor at University College London and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She was previously the director of the Open Society European Policy Institute.
