Unit 3 - European Policies

The European Policies Unit is EIPA's centre of expertise on the internal market, public procurement, competition and state aid, structural funds and regional policy, external relations (CFSP/ENP) and trade, environmental policy and climate change and migration.

This Unit has a broad range of activities which can be divided into the following categories: seminars organised in Maastricht, seminars organised in the Member States that request them, advisory and consultancy services, research and publications.

Core Modules
The main modules of the European Policies Unit are the following:

European Public Procurement: We offer general seminars for practitioners and special seminars on topics such as the Remedies Directive, recent legislative initiatives and defence procurement.
Cohesion Policy and Structural Funds: Our activities cover the programming and management of Structural Funds and the application of the relevant regulations.
State Aid: We provide a variety of seminars ranging from basic training on State Aid rules to specialised master classes based on analysis of important Commission decisions and Court rulings.
Environmental Policy: Our seminars explain the management and coordination of European Environmental Policy within national administrations.
External Relations (CFSP/ENP): We organise training for diplomats and other EU officials covering various aspects of diplomatic practice, regional challenges and horizontal issues such as counter-terrorism and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
Migration: Our seminars explain EU rules and their implementation and assess the major policy challenges on management of migrants.

Dr Phedon Nicolaides (CY)

Professor of Economics - Head of Unit European Policies

Fields of Specialisation: Economic integration; competition policy (anti-trust and state aid)

Rita Beuter (DE) Senior Expert Fields of Specialisation: European integration and policy-making; trade policy; public procurement; external relations of the EU, particularly EU-Asian relations.	Dr Simon Duke (UK) Professor Fields of Specialisation: Common Foreign and Security Policy; EU defence budgets and procurement; EU-US security relations; EU relations with WEU and NATO.
Robin Smail (UK) Expert Fields of Specialisation: Structural and cohesion policy; EU economy; innovation policy.	Martin Unfried (DE) Expert Fields of Specialisation: Environmental policy; climate change; integration of environmental policies into other sectors.
Wolfgang Koeth (DE) Senior Lecturer Fields of Specialisation: EU External Relations, Enlargement Policies and CFSP	Marco Lopriore (IT) Senior Lecturer Fields of Specialisation: European Social Fund (ESF); Lisbon Agenda; enterprise policy and SME aspects of the Structural Funds.
Jérôme Boniface (FR) Seconded National Expert Fields of Specialisation: Public administration issues; European neighbourhood policy; the enlargement process; Common Foreign and Security Policy; external aspects of energy policy.	Adriana Holtslag-Alvarez (MX/NL) Visiting Senior Lecturer Fields of Specialisation: Financial Services
Dr Mihalis Kekelekis (EL) Senior Lecturer Fields of Specialisation: EC competition law (state aid, antitrust law and mergers) and regulation.	Dr Katerina-Marina Kyrieri (EL) Lecturer Fields of Specialisation: EU law (institutional developments, multilevel governance); European Parliament; legislative procedures (co-decision); immigration; employment; labour market trends and SMEs policies
Maria Kleis (DE) Researcher Fields of Specialisation: Environmental policy & climate change, State aid.	Aurélie Courtier (FR) Research Assistant Fields of Specialisation: EU external relations; EU peace building.
Dr Ioana Eleonora Rusu (RO) Research Assistant Fields of Specialisation: Competition law and state aid

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