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Workshop "EU Crises and Emergencies: What’s in a name?"

by EmergEU
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This interdisciplinary workshop explores the conceptualization of crises and emergencies in the European Union. Contributions from political science and legal scholars will examine the evolving notions of ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency,’ highlighting potential disciplinary differences in terminology, interpretation, and practice. What can we learn from these variegated approaches in order to jointly critically assess the EU’s capacity to respond to, and learn from, crises?

Programme on Monday 16 June:

13.00Registration and welcome coffee
13.30Welcome & keynote by Bruno De Witte (Maastricht University)
14.30Panel 1: How many shades of crisis and emergency? Towards a European definitional framework
 Chair: Guido Bellinghi (Maastricht University)
 

Jan Hupkens (Maastricht University) – Has crisis reshuffled the cards of EU governance? A comparative case study of the Euro and migration crisis

 

Anna Pau (University of Bologna) – ‘Crisis’ and ‘emergency’ in EU law: The new paradigm of supranational emergencies as threats to EU values

 

Teresa Cabrita (UCLouvain) – Untangling family bonds: natural disasters and EU emergency law

 

Thijs de Boer & Lars Brummel (Leiden University) – Refining the framework of transboundary crisis: What the concept means and how it links t particular capacity and legitimacy challenges in crisis governance

16.00Coffee Break
16.30Panel 2: Crises and emergencies uniquely shaping the EU’s internal and external structures 
 Chair: Giselle Bosse (Maastricht University)
 Cristian Nitoiu (Utrecht University) – The EU’s crisis-led geopolitical awakening 
 

Dato Shakarishvili (Klaipeda University) – EU strategic autonomy: Crisis-driven or long-term vision?

 

Massimo Fichera (Maastricht University) – Security as a meta-constitutional rationale of the European project

 

Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos (Panteion University) – Emergency politics and intergovernmental drift in the European Union

18.00End of day 1

 

Programme on Tuesday 17 June:

09.00

Panel 3: Multilevel crisis governance in the EU: emergency powers with(out) a sovereign? 

 Chair: Andrea Ott (Maastricht University)
 

Lydie Cabane (Leiden University) & Martin Lodge (LSE) – Europeanising crisis management: The regulation of multi-level crisis management in the European Union

 

Maria Antonia Panascì (Bocconi University) – Rethinking EU’s financial autonomy beyond emergency

 

Przemyslaw Tacik (Jagiellonian University Kraków) – European exceptionalism and tacit states of exception 

 

Federica Velli – An analysis of joint purchasing as an EU tool for crisis response 

10.30Coffee Break
11.00

Panel 4: (Un)known unknowns: crises and emergencies from an epistemic perspective  

 Chair: Esther Versluis (Maastricht University)
 

Neil Mortimer (Loughborough University London) – Crisis learning in multi-level governance: Lessons from Australia, the UK and the EU’s COVID-19 response 

 

Chiara Russo (University of Antwerp) – Knowledge inclusion in crisis governance: Going beyond expert knowledge through a power perspective 

 Mark Sanders & Giulia Piccillo (Maastricht University) – Economic resilience and entrepreneruship
 

Aline Bartenstein & Moniek de Jong (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – Sense-making pre- and post-crisis: How do security of supply scenarios guide energy governance?

12.30Lunch
13.30End of the workshop

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