International Relations Office and the Francophone Center Varna invite You on public lecture "The European Union 10 years after the 2004 enlargment". The event will take place on 14.11.2014 (Friday) at Conference hall of University of Economics - Varna (room 446) at 11:00 a.m. The lecturer will be Mr. Lukas Macek. The lecture will be in English.

Short biography of the guest:
Born in Prague in 1976, Lukáš Macek studied in France between 1992 and 1999. He graduated at Science Po Paris with specialization for European affairs. Since 2004 he has been the director of European undergraduate program at Science Po Paris in Dijon. His teaching experience includes Charles University in Prague, New York University in Prague and Sciences Po. His publishing activity is focused on the EU institutional affairs and the Enlargement policy (papers for various think-tanks, contribution to Czech and French media, a book on the EU enlargements published by La Documentation française in 2011).
Previously he worked as assistant and advisor to several Czech politicians, especially to senator Josef Zieleniec, former Foreign affairs minister, and Jan Švejnar, presidential candidate in 2008. He served also as secretary of the Czech Senate delegation to the European Convention (2002-03). He was actively involved in several political campaigns, as an advisor or as a candidate (Senate elections 2000; referendum on the EU accession 2003, European elections 2004 and 2009, presidential election 2008).