The European Company We Keep

The following are among the European political leaders, diplomats, and EU officials who have visited Pitt’s European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center:
1992—Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, foreign minister of Denmark
Peter Dyvig, Danish ambassador to the United States

1995—Michael Tappin and Edith Müller, members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
Andreas van Agt, ambassador and head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States in Washington, D.C.

1996—Manfred Zuleeg, former judge on the European Court of Justice
Jürgen Chrobog, German ambassador to the United States

1997—Laurence Brinkhorst, MEP

1998—Helmut Tuerk, Austria’s ambassador to the United States representing the Austrian EU Presidency
Tom Garvey, former deputy director-general for environment, nuclear safety, and civil protection, European Commission (Garvey revisits Pitt in 1999, 2000, and 2003.)

1999—Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States
Marcel Haag, director-general, competition, European Commission
Hugo Paeman, ambassador and head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States
Manfred Dammeyer, president of the Committee of the Regions
Peter Moser, Austrian ambassador to the United States
Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg
Arlette Conzemius, ambassador of Luxembourg to the United States
Gilles de Kerchove, director, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU
Emmanuel Marotta, deputy director, Europol

2000—Fernand Sauer, executive director of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products
Michel Ayral, director for Air Transport, DG Transport, European Commission

2002—Ambassador Philippe De Schoutheete, special advisor to European Commissioner Michel Barnier and the former Belgian permanent representative to the EU

2004—Sylvie Goulard, member of the Group of Policy Advisors for the President of the European Commission
Eva Nowotny—Austrian ambassador to the United States (Nowotny makes a return visit in 2007.)

2006—José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission
Andras Simonyi, Hungarian ambassador to the United States
MEPs Lena Ek, Alexander Lambsdorff, and Helmut Kuhne

In addition, the following officials have visited Pitt’s Russian and East European Studies Center (REES) and Center for International Legal Education (CILE,) cosponsored by EUCE/ESC:

1999—Martin Butora, ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States (REES)

2000—Fidelma O’Kelly Macken, the first woman judge on the European Court of Justice (CILE)

2001—Ivan Grdesic, Croatian ambassador to the United States (REES)
Fausto Pocar, judge and vice president, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (CILE)
Lawrence Rossin, U.S. ambassador to Croatia (REES)

2002—Sorin Dumitru Ducau, Romanian ambassador to the United States (REES)