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The Academy of European Law celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2022.
To mark the event, we have the pleasure and honour to invite you to a congress entitled
European Sovereignty: The Legal Dimension – A Union in Control of its own Destiny
Trier & online, 13-14 October 2022
1992 – the year when ERA was established – was important in the history of European integration: it was the year of the signing of the founding treaty of the European Union, the Maastricht Treaty. Sovereignty was already a highly controversial topic in those days, but it has recently become of even more critical relevance.
Our congress will deal with sovereignty both of and in the Union. It will explore the legal challenges arising from new concepts that have moved to the centre of public debate in recent years, including ‘budgetary sovereignty’, ‘strategic sovereignity’ and ‘digital sovereignty’.
Against a backdrop of great (geo)political and economic challenges for the Union, the congress will be an example of ERA’s calling to provide an interface and forum for exchange among legal practitioners, lawmakers, and policymakers.
It will also be an opportunity to recognise and thank all those, both institutions and individuals, who have enabled ERA to carry out its mission over the last 30 years and who will continue to support us in the years to come.
| Thursday, 13 October 2022 |
| Plenary session | Building B - Room K1/K2 Languages: English, French and German (with simultaneous interpretation) |
| 12:45 | Registration of participants |
| 13:30 | Opening ceremony – Introductory speeches |
| Chair: | Jean-Philippe Rageade, Director of the Academy of European Law, Trier |
| Jean-Claude Juncker, former President of the European Commission, Luxembourg; President of the Governing Board of the Academy of European Law (ERA) | |
| Malu Dreyer, Minister President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz (video message) | |
| Sabine Verheyen, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), Strasbourg/Brussels; Chair of the Executive Board of ERA | |
| Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg | |
| Part 1 – Prolegomena |
| Building B - Room K1/K2 |
| Chair: | Julia Laffranque, Judge at the Supreme Court of Estonia, Tartu |
| 14:45 | The Janus of European sovereignty – What does it mean within and without? |
| Iris Goldner Lang, Professor at the University of Zagreb | |
| Ulla Neergaard, Professor at the University of Copenhagen | |
| Daniel Sarmiento, Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid | |
| Discussion/Questions | |
| 15:45 | Break |
| Part 2 – Judicial sovereignty |
| Building B - Room K1/K2 |
| Chair: | Irēna Kucina, Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia, Riga |
| 16:15 | Keynote address: |
| The extension of the competences of the Union through the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice: myth or reality? | |
| Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg | |
| 16:45 | Panel discussion: |
| National and European sovereignty in the EU: an irresolvable conflict? – The position of the national constitutional courts | |
| Andreas L. Paulus, Former Judge of the German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe | |
| Elena-Simina Tănăsescu, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania, Bucharest | |
| Jiří Zemánek, Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Brno | |
| 18:30 | End of the first day |
| 19:00 | Social programme |
| Dresscode: Business Casual | |
| Friday, 14 October 2022 |
| 08:30 | Arrival of participants |
| Part 3 – European sovereignty in specific areas |
| Parallel working sessions in the morning |
| Topic 1 – Strategic Sovereignty |
| Language: English | Building B - Room K1/K2 |
| Chair: | Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg |
| 09:00 | Keynote address: |
| Strategic sovereignty of the Union: realistic chance or wishful thinking? | |
| Bruno Dupré, Secretariat-General of the European External Action Service, Policy Planning and Strategic Foresight, Brussels | |
| Discussion/Questions | |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Panel Discussion on different dimension of European Strategic Sovereignty: |
| • the Energy Dimension of Sovereignty | |
| • the Trade and Development Assistance Dimension of Sovereignty (Global Gateway) | |
| • the Defence Dimension of Sovereignty | |
| • the Political Aspects of Strategic Sovereignty | |
| Dirk Buschle, Deputy Director and Legal Counsel at the Energy Community Secretariat, Vienna | |
| Inge Govaere, Professor at Ghent University | |
| Panos Koutrakos, Professor at City, University of London | |
| Elena Yoncheva, Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussel | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Topic 2 – Budgetary and fiscal Sovereignty |
| Languages: English and French (with simultaneous interpretation) | Building A - Helena & Gratianus |
| Chair: | Gavin Barrett, Professor at the University College Dublin |
| 09:00 | Keynote address: |
| A New Budgetary Regime for Europe | |
| Thomas Piketty, Professor at the Paris School of Economics | |
| Discussion/Questions | |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Panel Discussion on the recovery plan NextGenerationEU: |
| • Does the approach taken to financing NextGenerationEU constitute a once-off initiative or will it constitute a precedent to be followed? | |
| • The economic and constitutional impact of NextGenerationEU | |
| • EU budgetary sovereignty and Member State budgetary sovereignty | |
| Fabian Amtenbrink, Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
| Alicia Hinarejos, Professor at McGill University, Montreal | |
| Anna Jarosz-Friis, Head of Unit in the Directorate-General for Budget (DG BUDG), Strategic Coordination and Communication, at the European Commission, Brussels | |
| Margarida Marques, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG), Strasbourg/Brussels | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Topic 3 – Digital Sovereignty |
| Languages: English and German (with simultaneous interpretation) | Building A - Ausonius |
| Chair: | Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg |
| 09:00 | Keynote address: |
| Digital sovereignty in technology and rule-setting: why (not) and how? | |
| Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel | |
| Discussion/Questions | |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Panel Discussion on the EU’s digital policy: |
| • Privacy and data protection – How to reconcile trends towards the free flow of data with data sovereignty | |
| • DMA and DSA as policy projects leading to European digital sovereignty | |
| • Implementing EU’s cybersecurity strategy – Building resilience and technical sovereignty | |
| Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, Responsible Tech & Competition, European Government Affairs, Microsoft, Brussels | |
| Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission, Brussels | |
| Nathalie Smuha, Assistant Lecturer & Researcher, KU Leuven | |
| Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Part 4 – the European Union as a sovereign global player? |
| Plenary session | Building B - Room K1/K2 Languages: English, French and German (with simultaneous interpretation) |
| 14:00 | Keynote address: |
| “The Brussels Effect” and the European Sovereignty | |
| Anu Bradford, Professor at Columbia Law School, New York City | |
| Discussion/Questions | |
| 14:45 | Break |
| Part 5 – Democratic organisation of European sovereignty: shared tasks of the Member States and the Union? |
| Building B - Room K1/K2 |
| Chair: | Stefan Lehne, Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, Vienna |
| 15:15 | Panel discussion |
| Christophe Hansen, Member and Quaestor of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels | |
| Vera Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission, Brussels | |
| Jean-Claude Juncker, former President of the European Commission, Luxembourg; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg | |
| Egils Levits, President of the Republic of Latvia, Riga | |
| Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development and EU Funds, Budapest | |
| Marian-Cătălin Predoiu, Minister of justice of Romania, Bucharest | |
| 17:00 | Prospective closing lecture: |
| A federal future for the European Union? | |
| Christine Landfried, Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Hamburg | |
| 18:00 | End of the congress |
| 20:00 | Dinner and Jubilee party |
| Dresscode: Cocktail Attire |
List of speakers:
Fabian Amtenbrink, Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Gavin Barrett, Professor at the University College Dublin
Anu Bradford, Professor at Columbia Law School, New York City
Dirk Buschle, Deputy Director and Legal Counsel at the Energy Community Secretariat, Vienna
Malu Dreyer, Minister President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz
Bruno Dupré, Secretariat-General of the European External Action Service, Policy Planning and Strategic Foresight, Brussels
Iris Goldner Lang, Professor at the University of Zagreb
Inge Govaere, Professor at Ghent University
Christophe Hansen, Member and Quaestor of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels
Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Alicia Hinarejos, Professor at McGill University, Montreal
Anna Jarosz-Friis, Head of Unit in the Directorate-General for Budget (DG BUDG), Strategic Coordination and Communication, at the European Commission, Brussels
Vera Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission, Brussels
Jean-Claude Juncker, former President of the European Commission, Luxembourg
Panos Koutrakos, Professor at City, University of London
Irēna Kucina, Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia, Riga
Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, Responsible Tech & Competition, European Government Affairs, Microsoft, Brussels
Julia Laffranque, Judge at the Supreme Court of Estonia, Tartu
Christine Landfried, Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Hamburg
Stefan Lehne, Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, Vienna
Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Egils Levits, President of the Republic of Latvia, Riga
Margarida Marques, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG), Strasbourg/Brussels
Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg
Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development and EU Funds, Budapest
Ulla Neergaard, Professor at the University of Copenhagen
Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission, Brussels
Andreas L. Paulus, Former Judge of the German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe
Thomas Piketty, Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Paris
Marian-Cătălin Predoiu, Minister of justice of Romania, Bucharest
Jean-Philippe Rageade, Director of the Academy of European Law (ERA), Trier
Daniel Sarmiento, Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid
Nathalie Smuha, Assistant Lecturer & Researcher, KU Leuven
Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Elena-Simina Tănăsescu, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania, Bucharest
Sabine Verheyen, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), Strasbourg/Brussels
Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
Elena Yoncheva, Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels
Jiří Zemánek, Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Brno
Please contact one of the following hotels to take advantage of one of the pre-booked rooms available for you at preferential rates:
Best Western Hotel Trier City
Kaiserstraße 29 · 54290 Trier
Tel. +49 (0)651 9495-806 · Fax +49 (0)651 9495-666
reservierung@trier-city.bestwestern.de
www.bestwestern-trier-city.de
Booking reference: 022C01
Availabe periods:
12.-14.10.2022
13.-14.10.2022
Price per night: 85 EUR(single room)/110 EUR (double room)
The rooms are available until 19.09.2022.
Hotel Deutscher Hof
Südallee 25 | 54290 Trier
Tel: +49-651–9778-0 | Fax: +49-651-9778-400
info@hotel-deutscher-hof.de
www.hotel-deutscher-hof.de
Booking reference: ERAs 30-Jahr-Feier
Please use the reservation form
Available period:
13.-15.10.2022
Price per night: 110 EUR (single room)
The rooms are available until 30.07.2022.
ibis Styles Trier
Metzelstraße 12 · 54290 Trier · Deutschland
T +49 651 994 92-010 · F +49 651 994 92-100
Markus.Lais@ibisstyles-trier.com
Booking reference: ERAs 30 Jahr – Feier 022C01
Available period:
13.-15.10.2022
Price per night: 109,50 EUR (single room)
The rooms are available until 01.09.
Partner hotels without pre-booked rooms:
Vienna House Easy Trier
Metzer Allee 6
54295 Trier
Tel: +49 (0) 651 9377-0
Fax: +49 (0) 651 9377-333
info.easy-trier@viennahouse.com
www.viennahouse.com
Hotel Villa Hügel Trier ****S
Bernhardstr. 14
54295 Trier
Tel: (+49) 651 937100
Fax: (+49) 651 9371070
info@hotel-villa-huegel.de
www.hotel-villa-huegel.de