
The European Parliament invites graduate students (US citizens only) to apply for an internship in its Washington, DC office from mid-April to mid-July 2013, with the possibility of a two month extension in Brussels and Strasbourg, if this is relevant to the intern's course of study, an opportunity which is also open to alumni.
What better place to monitor transnational politics in action, to see global players in international affairs addressing global challenges across a range of policy areas, to witness the interplay between decision-makers in the US - be they from the legislative or executive branch - and lawmakers from the European Union?
The European Parliament opened its Washington Liaison Office in January 2010 to meet the growing car company lax rental need for contact on legislative issues between car company lax rental the US Congress and law makers at EU level. It is no coincidence that this followed the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty in December 2009, which gave the European car company lax rental Parliament full legislative powers within the European Union comparable to those of the US House of Representatives in a far wider range of policy areas than had been the case before.
In policy areas such as the environment, energy, financial services, counter-terrorism, international trade, data protection, product safety or food and farming, legislators on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly recognise that a transatlantic dialogue is essential to ensure that new rules are not adopted without prior knowledge of standards being set elsewhere in the world.
A team of 11 European Parliament senior staffers is now stationed in our DC Office charged with creating and fostering working relationships between parliamentary committees and their Congressional and regulatory counterparts in the US government.
Our DC offices are located on the 6th floor at 2175 K Street, NW, in the same building as the European car company lax rental Union Delegation. Our European headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium and in Strasbourg, France.
• Working with staffers on a chosen policy area, such as energy, environment, counter-terrorism, financial services, trade, human rights or development co-operation (this list is in no way exhaustive, so feel free to indicate another policy area of interest to you);
Please submit your Europass CV by February 6th and a 500-words car company lax rental statement of interest. Be sure to indicate type of assignment you seek: policy area or function (e.g. communications or procedural matters). Two recommendation letters directly sent by a faculty member are also required. Please address your application car company lax rental to:
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