On 8-18 July 2024, in collaboration with the LEPL International Education Center of Georgia, the Agency of the EPLO – European Public Law Organization – the European Law and Governance University (ELGU) organized a Qualification Enhancement Program on “EU Fundamentals” for the representatives of 15 municipalities of Georgia.
The program which took place at the EPLO headquarters in Athens and the ELGU campus in Legrena, Greece, offered an intensive study process composed of theoretical discussions and practical exercises. The participants took part in a set of lectures, practical simulations and discussions. The participants also had an opportunity to discuss various EU-related topics with the Greek Ombudsman Mr. Andreas Pottakis, the Dean of the ELGU – Judge of the Supreme Court of Spain Honorable Luis María Díez-Picazo, the President of the EPLO Board of Directors Prof. Spyridon Flogaitis, as well as Greek and Italian professors of law and international relations, and the Director of the EPLO Branch for South Caucasus Amb. Ioseb Nanobashvili.
In the end of the program, the participants passed comprehensive tests and earned certificates of competence in the EU study module: “EU Fundamentals
The program encompassed topics such as: The EU decision-making procedures and an institutional chain of the EU decision-making; The EU unique institutional set-up; European Elections; EU law-making, its implementation and monitoring; legislative competence-sharing between the EU and its member states; EU Judiciary system; EU Enlargement; EU membership criteria and accession stages; Georgia on its path toward the EU membership: 1991-2024; EU and its neighborhood after the EU “Big Bang” enlargement of 2004-2007 – Western Balkans vs Post-soviet countries, etc.
The Program included site-seeing tours as well as educational activities specially organized for the program participants.
