*CANCELLED* Workshop Institutional balance in turbulent times; a Jean Monnet event
Location: TBD
May 7 and 8, 2020
The institutional balance is both a legal and political concept that despite being well-established in the vocabulary of academics and practitioners remains elusive. The multiple crises that have hit the EU have also put the inter-institutional relations under pressure, possibly changing the different positions and roles which the EU institutions play vis-à-vis each other. How these relations legally ought to be, how they politically are in reality, or how they could be in an optimal system of governance is thus subject to evolution and mutation. The workshop will bring together political scientists, legal scholars, economists and practitioners. It aims to map out and analyse how the turbulent times which the EU has weathered since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty have had an impact on the institutional balance. Should the institutional balance be recalibrated to ensure the legitimacy of EU governance?
For the panels focusing on policy fields, presenters are invited to reflect on the following questions:
How have the inter-institutional relations in your field evolved through the Lisbon Treaty and following the Lisbon Treaty?
Is there a discrepancy between the de facto/informal and de iure/formal institutional balance?
Has your field seen institutional turf wars (whether or not before the Court) between the institutions?
If so, have these turf wars changed the institutional balance?
If inter-institutional relations have changed (whether or not following turf wars), can we speak in terms of winners and losers?
How do you assess this change?
Has this change had an impact on the substance of the policy itself?
Preliminary programme
TBD
Contact: Chantal Meertens
The Research Support Office is organising this Jean Monnet Workshop for the Centre of European Research in Maastricht (CERiM).
Organisers: Merijn Chamon, Assistant Professor EU Law at Maastricht University and Dr. Giselle Bosse, Associate Professor, Director of Studies MSc European Studies, Co-Director Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM), Political Science Department at Maastricht University.
Thursday 7 May |
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| 14.15-14.30 |
Registration and welcome |
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| 14.30-16.00 |
Panel I Institutional balance – a legal, political and governance principle? Merijn Chamon: Institutional balance – a legal principle? |
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 16.30-18.15 |
Panel II Policies – EU external relations |
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Friday 8 May |
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| 09.30-11.15 | Panel III Policies - EU Energy and climate policies
Chair: Giselle Bosse Climate |
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| 11.15-11.45 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.45-13.30 |
Panel IV Policies - EU Economic and Monetary Union |
Registration
Participation is free of charge.
The registrationlink will be available soon on this page.
Partly financed by CERIM budget Jean Monnet.
Jean Monnet Projects support innovation, cross-fertilisation and the spread of European Union content.
Partly financed by Maastricht, Working on Europe.
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