The UNI-ETC, the Institute for Public International Law and International Relations and the Institute for European Law are pleased to welcome Engelbert Theuermann to a brown bag lunch on the topic “The EU as Global Actor of (Human Rights) External Policy: Does the EU punch below its weight?”.
Engelbert Theuermann was the head of the EU Council Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) until September 2015. Before he was the director of human rights in the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is one of the leading experts on human rights globally and in the EU. At the brown bag lunch, he will talk about the developments since the Lisbon Treaty and examine if the changes to the contract have been used to strengthen the EU human rights policy.