Research Group Changing Role of Europe
Europe needs change. Working with Europe implies change. But how to get a grip on European developments? For example: which consequences does ‘Brexit’ have for your organisation? How to organise a European lobby, and influence European Union decision making? And which historical and political developments can explain how Europe works today? These questions fall within the realm of the research group Changing role of Europe at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
The research group Changing role of Europe (est. January 2018) focuses on current and topical questions related to European cooperation at the global, regional, national and organisational level. It functions in a wide (inter-)national professional network with governments, think tanks and profit and not for profit organisations.
Lecturers, students and staff of the The Hague University are invited to develop and to share European knowledge. The lectorate involves individual and common research development, a reading circle and regular events.
Team
Chris Aalberts
Mária Éva Földes, PhD
Rosa Groen
Stefania Marassi
Tolgan Raben
Paul Shotton
Ruud Schapenk
Chris Aalberts
Chris Aalberts has written books on right wing populist parties, the European Union, social media, media relations and young people's political engagement. Chris is a political reporter for ThePostOnline and a columnist at Noordhollands Dagblad, Haarlems Dagblad en de Gooi- en Eemlander (e.a.). He also writes for De Kanttekening. He is senior lecturer at THUAS Graduate School.
The objective of Chris’ research work is to develop a study book that can be used in parallel to introductory books about the EU for students and professionals so as to illustrate what happens within European political structures - organizations and institutions whose tasks and powers are explained in detail elsewhere - with stories from those involved in European politics. What do they do every day, what are their experiences, insights and lessons during their careers in Brussels? Research focuses on everyday work processes as they occur around certain political issues.
Mária Éva Földes, PhD
Éva Mária’s research project explores the very timely topic of ‘Healthcare governance in times of the Corona pandemic: new actors, new solutions, long-term impact?’. Cross-country differences in responses to the pandemic illustrate that health is largely about the political choices that determine regulatory action. Efforts to fight the pandemic have also shown that non-state actors (professional networks, corporations, civil society) can influence healthcare governance and promote novel solutions with possible long-term impact. The research will have apply a two-fold focus: on the one hand, it will focus on EU law perspective and, on the other, on human rights and technology perspective.
Rosa Groen
Stefania Marassi
Stefania Marassi has a Master Degree in European and International Law from the University of Trento (Italy) and an LL.M. in International and European Labour Law from the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands). She is a lecturer and researcher in international and European labour law in the LL.B. Programme International and European Law.
As a researcher, she is a member of the lectorate ‘Multilevel Regulation’ where she acts as the managing editor of the International Labor Rights Case Law journal (ILaRC) and she carries out research on transnational industrial relations and compliance with labour rights in the global supply chain.
Stefania is also part of the lectorate ‘Changing Role of Europe’ where she conducts research on the use of new technologies (e.g. people analytics and wearables) in the workplace and the privacy-related implications under the GDPR.
In 2015, she published a book, “Globalization and Transnational Collective Labour Relations”. In 2017-2018 she worked as an independent expert in a European project led by ETUC and BusinessEurope on transnational company negotiations.
Tolgan Raben
Paul Shotton
Dr Paul Shotton is Principal Lecturer in European Public Policy within the European Studies Programme at THUAS. Prior to working at THUAS Paul worked in Brussels as a Public Affairs Practitioner (lobbyist) for a number of blue chip companies. Paul lectures in European Public Policy with notable courses simulating EU decision-making and lobbying campaign design. Paul’s research focuses on defining a body of knowledge for public affairs and developing and disseminating knowledge, skills and competences needed for effective lobbying. Connecting to education, Paul will develop scenario planning exercise for Public Affairs students and professionals.
p.shotton@hhs.nlRuud Schapenk
About the professor
dr. Mendeltje van Keulen
Mendeltje van Keulen is lector Changing role of Europe since 1 January 2018. She has a PhD and MA European Public Administration (College of Europe, Bruges; EUI Florence, University of Twente). Her dissertation focused on the effects of EU policy shaping by the Dutch government in the field of natural gas and biotechnology. She worked as a (senior) research fellow for the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘ Clingendael’, the WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) and various ministries. As team leader of the parliamentary EU staff in the Dutch parliament, she gained abundant practical experience in processes of Europeanisation and change management. Mendeltje van Keulen regularly publishes and teaches on European policy making for students and professionals.
m.vankeulen@hhs.nlProjects
EU Impact-scan
Cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Since April 2020, dr Mendeltje van Keulen, lector at the Changing role of Europe research group has been part-time guest researcher at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate Research and International policy-evaluation.
In this capacity she carries out research and advises on modalities of effective governmental coordination of the country’s position feeding into EU policy-making as well as the implications of EU legislation for domestic actors and policies. Her work enhances CREU’s cooperation with the professional field and contributes to capacity-building in a policy area that is evidently crucial for interacting with the EU.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal article; dec. 2020
The Role of Constitutional Courts in Promoting Healthcare Equity: Lessons from Hungary
Article
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic: Are the EU’s current competences used to their full potential?
Book
What do they actually do there? Interviews with Dutch members of the European Parliament
Peer-reviewed journal article; dec. 2020
The Role of Constitutional Courts in Promoting Healthcare Equity: Lessons from Hungary
This paper explores whether constitutional litigation contributes to sustaining the equity element of the right to health. Equity entails a fair distribution of the burden of healthcare financing across the different socio-economic groups of the population. A shift towards uncontrolled private healthcare provision and financing raises equity challenges by disproportionately benefitting those who are able to afford such services.
See full PDF text on: https://doi.org/10.31078/consrev624
Constitutional Review, Volume 6, Number 2, December 2020, , P-ISSN: 2460-0016 (print), E-ISSN: 2548-3870 (online)Book
What do they actually do there? Interviews with Dutch members of the European Parliament
Every five years, elections for the European Parliament are held in the Netherlands. However, it is difficult for citizens to cast a substantiated vote. Newspapers and television pay relatively little attention to European politics. As a result, citizens have little insight into what Dutch politicians do on their behalf in Brussels, Strasbourg and in their work in the Netherlands.
This book describes the work of Dutch members of the European Parliament since 2014. They discuss their activities, the results they are proud of and how they stay in touch with their supporters. This makes it a must-read for every European voter.Read more >