Governing through Funding in the EU: Constitutional and Normative Perspectives

• Chair: Ellen Vos, University of Maastricht 
• Governing through Funding in the EU: A Research Agenda by Lilian Tsourdi, University of Maastricht & Marijn van der Sluis, University of Maastricht  
• Governing through Funding in the EU: A Constitutional Law Perspective by Bruno de Witte, University of Maastricht & European University Institute

13:45-14:15

Governing Crisis or a New Era of EU Financial Governance? Scrutinising the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan:

• Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker, University of Maastricht
• Governing the EU Resilience and Recovery Facility: Formulating, Implementing, and Monitoring National Plans as an Interactive Multi-Level Process by Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Amsterdam & European University Institute and David Bokhorst, European University Institute

• The new EU Cohesion - Achieving Solidarity and Compliance through EU Funding by Maria Patrin, University of Florence
• Next Generation EU and the European Union’s System of Government by Vestert Borger, Leiden University

Financial Governance through EU Institutions and Bodies (I): Enforcing EU Policy through Funding

• Chair: Monica Claes, University of Maastricht 
• Governing through Funding: A European Parliament Perspective by Richard Crowe, European Parliament

• Filling the Enforcement Gap: Protecting the Rule of Law Through Funding Conditionality by Antonia Baraggia, University of Milan and Matteo Bonelli, University of Maastricht
• Disentangling Parliament’s Budgetary Control: Which Role for Financial Accountability? by Michele Gigli, European University Institute 

Financial Governance through EU Institutions and Bodies (II): Shifting Roles for Financial Accountability Bodies

• Chair: Andrea Ott, Maastricht University  
• New Frontiers in Financial Accountability: The Evolution of the Role of the European Court of Auditors by Nikos Voyiatzis, University of Essex
• Safeguarding Fundamental Rights through Financial Accountability: OLAF and EU AFSJ agencies by Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary University of London and Andreas Karapatakis, Queen Mary University of London

Steering Potential of EU Funding: Sectoral Approaches (I)

• Chair: Bruno De Witte, University of Maastricht & European University Institute

• Structural Fund Conditionality: Does the Commission Ask Member States to Do What they Ought to Do Anyway? by Phedon Nicolaides, University of Maastricht

• Migration Financial Governance: Policy Implementation and Solidarity through EU Funding by Lilian Tsourdi, University of Maastricht 
• The EU’s Just Transition Fund: Legal Basis, Objectives, Implementation and Control by Mariolina Eliantonio, University of Maastricht and Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland
• Cultural governance through funding: The making and evolution of EU cultural policy by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, University of of Peloponnese and Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

12:45
13:45

Steering Potential of EU Funding: Sectoral Approaches (I)

• Chair: Anne Pieter van der Mei, Maastricht University
• Funding the Green Transition - Opportunities and Challenges for Supporting Climate Change Mitigation Through Public Funding in the EU by Marijn van der Sluis, University of Maastricht   

• Governance through Funding’ Under the EU’s Recovery Plan – a Next Stage for the Union’s Economic Policy? by Paul Dermine, Université libre de Bruxelles
• Disputed Environmental Protection: Dynamics of Steering and Resistance in the Common Agricultural Policy by Leticia Díez Sánchez, University of Maastricht and Annalisa Volpato, University of Padova

• Accelerating the Green Transition: Governance through Funding and the RePowerEU Instrument by Lucas Schramm, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Chiara Terranova, Europa-University Flensburg

Lilian Tsourdi and Marijn van der Sluis, University of Maastricht