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On the Occasion of the Inauguration of the EU Center of Excellence Washington DC

Th e Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations
Invites you to an address by

José Manuel Barroso
President of the European Commission

President Barroso will discuss the role of the European Union in the world.   His SAIS address will follow his meeting with President Bush earlier that day.
 
President Barroso's address celebrates the designation of   the American Consortium on EU Studies (ACES), a partnership between Johns Hopkins, Georgetown , George Washington, George Mason and American Universities , as the EU Center of Excellence Washington DC . The Center has received a European Commission award of more than $350,000 to support programming, research, media and outreach activities. The Center's activities are coordinated by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and directed by SAIS Professor Daniel Hamilton See www.american.edu/aces or www.transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu .   
 
José Manuel Barroso was confirmed as European Commission President in November 2004, after serving as Prime Minister of Portugal, where he had introduced a far reaching program of financial and economic reforms. He was appointed President of the Social Democratic Party in 1999, and has served as Member of the Portuguese Parliament, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and as State Secretary for both Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University , headed the International Relations Department at Lusíada University . He studied law at the University of Lisbon and earned a Masters in Political Science at the University of Geneva , where he has also taught.
 
If you wish to attend, Please RSVP to Jeanette Murphy at the Center for Transatlantic Relations by telephone at 202-663-5730 or by email at transatlanticRSVP@jhu.edu . If you e-mail please put RSVP October 18 in the subject line.