Jean Monnet Lecture by EmergEU

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Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen - Lecture Title : "Emergency politics, democracy, and constitutionalism in Europe."

This is the first Guest Lecture organised by the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence on Crises and Emergencies in EU Integration (EmergEU). EmergEU is embedded within the existing interdisciplinary Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM).  

In the upcoming three years (2024-2027), EmergEU will explore crises and emergencies in EU integration from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Centre seeks to illuminate the evolving discourse surrounding the multifaceted challenges related to the responses to crises and emergencies that have threatened the EU’s foundations. Recent examples include issues related to the rule of law, the COVID-19 pandemic, energy security, environmental crises, and the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. Addressing such challenges demands responses that may reshape the EU’s institutional structures and policymaking processes.

In its first year (2024-2025), the Centre will address the conceptualisation of crises and emergencies in the EU context from a multidisciplinary (law and political science) and multilevel (supranational and national) perspective.

These lectures will take place physically and online. 

We cordially invite you to the upcoming lecture of 5 February with Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and European University Institute (EUI) Florence.

Discussant: Bruno De Witte, Maastricht University

Lecture Title : Emergency politics, democracy, and constitutionalism in Europe

Abstract: 
The long decade of crises in the European Union (EU) has ushered in a distinct mode of transnational rule by emergency. Breaking with established norms and constraints on authority, emergency politics is characterized by decision-makers’ recourse to justifications of political necessity under conditions of threat and urgency. The lecture problematizes this novel form of ‘integration-through-crisis’ in Europe. It discusses its democratic as well as constitutional implications and makes the case for an “Emergency Constitution” for the EU to alleviate some of its normative downsides.  

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