The EU’s response to internal crises and emergencies: transforming competences, institutional balance, and policy directions?

The second workshop of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Crises and Emergencies in EU Integration (EmergEU) explores the EU responses to recent internal crises and emergencies and their impact on the EU constitutional and political order. Following our first workshop, in which we reflected on the notions of ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ in the EU system, and on how the EU defines and governs crises andemergencies, we now zoom in on three case studies: health and internal market; economic and monetary union; values and the rule of law.

For each of these three policy areas, the workshop seeks to map the EU reaction to the crises and emergencies that have tested the integration process and the framework created by the Lisbon Treaty. In particular, we are interested in studying the tools that the EU has used and developed to tackle these challenges, and in assessing the impact of the EU legal and policy measures on core elements of the EU constitutional framework such as the division of competences between the Union and the Member States, and the principle of institutional balance. The workshop also aims at analysing whether crisis and emergency responses have structurally changed the EU policy directions in the selected areas. Ultimately, has the crisis and emergency response re-shaped, or even transformed, the Union’s constitutional and political order?

12.30	Lunch & Registration
13.30	PANEL 1: Economic and Monetary Union
	Ana Bobić (Hertie School), The Lore of ECB Independence and Neutrality
	Mattia Gaetano Caruso (European Commission/Maastricht University), Beyond Emergency: The Constitutional Challenge of Common EU Debt Sustainability After NextGenerationEU
	Julien Debande (Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB), Crisis-driven Innovation in EU budgetary Governance: The 2028–2034 Own Resources Decision and the New Crisis Mechanism
	Menelaos Markakis (Erasmus University Rotterdam), ReArm Europe and Its Implications for EU Fiscal and Economic Governance
	Marijn van der Sluis (Maastricht University), The stability of the Stability and Growth Pact: how Article 126 TFEU withstood crises
16.00	Coffee Break
16.30	PANEL 2: Values and the Rule of Law
	Franca Maria Feisel (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg), The 'Internal Market Detour' for Defending Democracy
	Marco Fisicaro (Sapienza University of Rome), The Legislative Turn in the Protection of EU Values: Positioning Article 2 TEU in the System of EU Competences
	Miriana Lanotte (University of Bologna), Constraining the Discretion of the Commission: An Antidote to the EU’s Values Crisis
	Renata Uitz and Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis (Royal Holloway, University of London), From the EU’s rule of law crisis to the values crisis? The CJEU’s varied responses to big and small claims on EU values
18.30	End of day 1

09.00	Panel 3: Health and Internal market
	Samuele Barbieri (University of Ferrara), Between Treaties’ serendipity and legislative creativity. The interplay between the IMERA, Article 122(1) TFEU and Article 36 TFEU in tackling emergency of the supply chains
	Vincent Delhomme (Leiden University), Covid-19 and EU health governance: much ado about Nothing?
	Francesco Saverio Della Corte (European University Institute), Resilience in the EU Internal Market: The Promise and Perils of a New Governance Paradigm
	Alexandra Molitorisová (University of Bayreuth / University of Passau), Grandfathering biological and chemical crises: Institutional responses of EFSA and ECHA
11.00	Coffee Break
11.30	PANEL4: Horizontal reflections
	Annegret Engel (Lund University), Emergency Laws as the New Normal: Stress-Testing the Outer Boundaries of EU Competences and the Institutional Balance
	Klaus Tuori and Fernando Losada Fraga (University of Luxembourg), Assessing the Impact of Environmental Emergency on the EU Economic-Constitutional Framework – an Environmental Constitution in the Making?
	Maria Patrin (Hertie School), Residual Executive Power in the EU - Institutional balance and regulatory patterns after the pandemic
13.00	Lunch & End of day

Programme on 30 March:

Programme on 31 March

Also read

Data Protection Officer (DPO) Certification