{"id":49236,"date":"2021-05-06T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=49236"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:11:43","slug":"schmidt-comments-on-challenges-facing-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/05\/06\/schmidt-comments-on-challenges-facing-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Comments on Challenges Facing EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/04\/Schmidt-e1612208558792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/04\/Schmidt-e1612208558792.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/04\/Schmidt-e1612208558792-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vivien-a-schmidt\/\">Vivien Schmidt<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span>Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, appeared in an International Institute of Peace (IIP) video commenting on challenges facing the European Union (EU).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the context of the Conference on The Future of Europe, planned for the next two years, the IIP asked experts would to take a deeper look on the main challenges, domestically and internationally, for the EU in the next four years. In her remarks, Schmidt notes that an issue facing the EU is Eurozone Crisis governance, how this lack of governance during the crisis gave rise to populist political parties, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed the economic of austerity in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s remarks can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Europe\u2018s crisis of legitimacy: Future of EU economic governance and foreign policy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5sOhIztacY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vivien-a-schmidt\/\">Vivien Schmidt<\/a><span>\u00a0is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and was the first Director of BU\u2019s Center for the Study of Europe, housed at the Pardee School.\u00a0<\/span><span>Schmidt\u2019s research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory\u2014in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis. Read more about Professor Schmidt on her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vivien-a-schmidt\/\">faculty profile<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the Conference on The Future of Europe, Schmidt noted that an issue facing the EU is Eurozone Crisis governance and mentioned how the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed the economic of austerity in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":32796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411,8434],"tags":[11784,8439,10891,8361,8363,4076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49242,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236\/revisions\/49242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}