REPORT: North Korea and the Escalation of a Global Crisis: Any Role for the European Union?

Our Tereza Novotna currently embarks on her new Korea Foundation-funded research project on the EU-(North) Korea at Seoul National University.

On 10 October 2017, the GEM STONES Ph.D. School at the Institute for European Studies at Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) hosted a seminar on “North Korea and the Escalation of a Global Crisis: Any Role for the European Union?” The event marked the start of the new academic year as well as bid a farewell to Dr. Tereza Novotna, previously an FNRS Post-doctoral Researcher at REPI, IEE-ULB and current Senior Associate Research Fellow at EUROPEUM, Institute for European Policy whose post-doctoral fellowship in Brussels came to an end while she embarks on her new Korea Foundation-funded research project on the EU-(North) Korea at Seoul National University. The two-hour seminar was co-organized by various units at ULB (GEM-STONES, REPI and EaST) and EUROPEUM Brussels Office.

Confirmed speakers: 

• Mr. Willy Fautré (director of Human Rights Without Frontiers)
• Dr. Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (political advisor at the European Parliament and a member of Group of Experts on North Korea and China at HRWF)
• Mr. Glyn Ford (founder and executive director of POLINT and former Labour MEP)
• Dr. Tereza Novotna (IEE-ULB and EUROPEUM) 

The debate was moderated by Prof. Mario Telò (IEE-ULB, LUISS Guido Carli and the Belgian Royal Academy).

Together we discussed what can be done about the situation in North Korea from a short- and long-term perspective and reflected on any potential solutions to the exacerbating global crisis, including various roles for the EU.

You can download the report through the PDF button on the right.

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Tereza Novotná
Senior Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: EU foreign policy, North and South Korea and NE Asia; European External Action Service, EU Delegations; transatlantic relations and trade; EU enlargement and EU institutions; Germany (foreign and domestic politics, particularly in the Eastern parts of Germany).