On the eve of the German Federal Elections, our panel of experts will explore the issues concerning German voters, the legacy of outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the potential impacts of this election on transatlantic relations and the European Union. Panelists: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh; Marcel Lewandowsky, University of Florida; Kai Arzheimer, University of Mainz; and Jana Puglierin, European Council on Foreign Relations. Moderator: Steve Sokol, American Council on Germany.

The 2020 NCSS Virtual Conference is taking place December 4-6, 2020. Exhibitor booths are available to participants from November 30, 2020, until April 30, 2021. The European Studies booth is shared by Pitt's ESC and UNC's CES. NCSS attendees can visit our virtual booth to learn more about the resources offered by our centers, including our annual Brussels-Lux Study Tour for educators.

A presentation, conducted in fully in French, for an advanced high school French class. The presentation addresses Pitt students' experiences in France and studying French as well as French pop culture and slang.

The Euro Challenge is a national competition for cash prizes where 9th and 10th grade high school students test their knowledge and understanding of the European economy and the Euro, the currency shared by many of the 28 countries of the European Union. The European Studies Center is proud to host the Western Pennsylvania regional competition for Euro Challenge at the University of Pittsburgh.

This year's competitions will be held virtually. The top team(s) from the regional competition will advance to the national competition.

In the past thirty years, Poland has been taken as a bellwether for the political direction of East Central Europe. A country whose Solidarity movement, roundtable about a peaceful transition to multi-party rule, and elections in June 1989 helped end decades of Communist rule in the region, it was heralded as one of a small number of countries at the vanguard of an imagined inevitable transition to liberal democracy and a market economy. Indeed, Poland was part of the first wave of post-Communist countries to join the EU, and Poles quickly made themselves present in EU institutions (e.g.

UF Jean Monnet Chair Series - Pandemics in Europe: Political and Social Responses