{"id":8993,"date":"2016-10-03T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:08:37","slug":"eu-views-gerry-alons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2016\/10\/03\/eu-views-gerry-alons\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Views: Gerry Alons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/politicologie\/koppeling\/kamp-alons\/\">Gerry Alons<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Nationality:<\/strong> Greek<br \/>\n<strong>Occupation(s): <\/strong>Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Political Science Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen; Visiting Researcher, Boston University Center for the Study of Europe (2016-2018)<br \/>\n<strong>Connection to Europe:<\/strong> Dutch citizen; Expertise in European agriculture and trade policy<\/p>\n<p><em>Date of interview: September 22, 2016<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/286192531&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"\/eufutures\/files\/2017\/09\/van-der-Kamp-Alons-Transcript.pdf\">van der Kamp-Alons Transcript<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toria Rainy talks with Dr. Gerry Alons about direct vs. representative democracy in the European Union and her changed expectations with regard to Europe&#8217;s future. She stresses the need to ask realistic questions when considering where do we go from here and the need to put national differences aside in the search for common solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Gerry Alons Nationality: Greek Occupation(s): Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Political Science Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen; Visiting Researcher, Boston University Center for the Study of Europe (2016-2018) Connection to Europe: Dutch citizen; Expertise in European agriculture and trade policy Date of interview: September 22, 2016 van der Kamp-Alons Transcript Toria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}