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

2nd EmergEU Workshop:
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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?

 

Programme on 30 March:

12.30Lunch & Registration
13.15Opening by the organizers
13.30PANEL 1: Economic and Monetary Union
Chair: Aneta Spendzharova
Discussants: Alessandro Cuomo and Phedon Nicolaides
 

  • Mattia Gaetano Caruso (European Commission/Maastricht University), Beyond Emergency: The Constitutional Challenge of Common EU Debt Sustainability After NextGenerationEU

 

  • Menelaos Markakis (Erasmus University Rotterdam), ReArm Europe and Its Implications for EU Fiscal and Economic Governance

 
  • 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
 

  • Marijn van der Sluis (Maastricht University), The stability of the Stability and Growth Pact: how Article 126 TFEU withstood crises

 
  • Ana Bobić (Hertie School), The Lore of ECB Independence and Neutrality
16.00Coffee Break
16.30PANEL 2: Values and the Rule of Law 
Chair and discussant: Monica Claes
 
  • Marco Fisicaro (Sapienza University of Rome), The Rise of Values-Oriented Legislation in the EU: Positioning Article 2 TEU in the System of EU Competences
 
  • Franca Maria Feisel (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg), The 'Internal Market Detour' for Defending Democracy
 

  • 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

18.30End of day 1

Programme on 31 March

09.00Panel 3: Health and Internal market
Chair and discussant: Ellen Vos
 

  • 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

 

  • Francesco Saverio Della Corte (European University Institute), The Regulation of Resilience in the EU Internal Market: Safeguard or Risk to EU Emergency Law?

 

  • Vincent Delhomme (Leiden University), Covid-19 and EU health governance: much ado about Nothing?

 

  • Alexandra Molitorisová (University of Bayreuth / University of Passau), Grandfathering biological and chemical crises: Institutional responses of EFSA and ECHA

11.00Coffee Break
11.30

PANEL 4: Horizontal reflections
Chair: Matteo Bonelli
Discussant: Guido Bellenghi

 

  • Annegret Engel (Lund University), Emergency Laws as the New Normal: Stress-Testing the Outer Boundaries of EU Competences and the Institutional Balance

 
  • Maria Patrin (Hertie School), Residual Executive Power in the EU - Institutional balance and regulatory patterns after the pandemic
 
  • 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?
13.00Lunch & End of day 

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