The 2016 Session of the West Coast Model European Union will take place on February 26th and 27th at the University of Washington. Come join us!
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The Model European Union is a simulation of a European Council Summit.
The European Union Center of Excellence hosted the 2015 West Coast Model EU on Friday, February 20 and Saturday, February 21, 2015 at the University of Washington.
Teams made up of two current undergraduate students play the roles of representatives of EU member state delegations, the European Commission,and the European Parliament. The 2015 Model EU featured two concurrent summit negotiation sessions focusing on the following issues: Common Foreign and Security Policy: Towards a more effective Crisis Response System and Fighting Youth Unemployment in Europe.
The 2015 keynote speaker was Ms. Yasmina Sioud, Second Secretary, Deputy Head of Press and Public Diplomacy Section at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, who spoke at the plenary session of the 2015 West Coast Model European Union. Ms. Sioud has a background working at the European Commission, the European External Action Service in Brussels, and the Delegation of the European Commission in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
For more information about the annual West Coast Model European Union, click here.
For more information about the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, visit their site here.