Conference on Rule of law, liberal democracy & economic governance in the EU

Discover the objectifs of the conference and a detailed list of spekers here:

Programme of the day 1

Core questions of the conference:

The questions at the core of the two panels outlined below are as follows:

  • How have EU institutions responded over the past decades to increased dissensus over liberal democracy and its core values, as well as the rule of law and respect for human rights including the rights of persons belonging to minorities?
  • How does dissensus reshape EU’s internal policies and instruments such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Semester, the Regulation on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the EU budget or Cohesion Policy? What is the impact?
  • What are the implications of dissensus for the EU’s capacity to act?

Format: 

The half-a-day conference includes two panels:

  • The first panel brings together practitioners from across four main EU institutions – i.e. the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Council, and the European Court of Auditors. Panelists are invited to share their views on the aforementioned transversal questions.
  • The second panel features several academics from within and beyond the RED-SPINEL project. They will present and discuss their research findings on the different issues raised by the aforementioned transversal questions.

Practical information

When: March 17th, 14:00 – 17:30 

Registration:


About RED-SPINEL

RED-SPINEL analyses the changing nature of dissensus surrounding liberal democracy and its implications for EU supranational policy instruments.

It is a 36-month long, 3.2 million euro, interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral Horizon Europe project involving seven higher education institutions: Université libre de Bruxelles, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, HEC Paris, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu and the University of Warwick. They are joined in the consortium by four non-academic partners: Peace Action, Training and Research Institute in Romania, Milieu Consulting, Magyar Helsinki Bizottság / Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael across eight European countries.

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