XXX Fide Congress Sofia 2023

The topics and the titles of the panel discussions, chosen taking into consideration their general interest, topicality and relevance for the process of European integration, will be as follows: 

•  TOPIC I - MUTUAL TRUST, MUTUAL RECOGNITION AND THE RULE OF LAW

Panels discussions : 

1. Mutual Trust, Rule of Law, Constitutional Identities of the EU and of its Member States: normative foundations - Moderator: Paul Craig, Emeritus Professor of English law, University of Oxford
2. Instruments and Mechanisms for Protecting the Rule of Law in the Member States. Litigating Rule of Law in national courts - Moderator: Carsten Zatschler, SC, The Bar of Ireland
3. The Rule of Law at the EU level and with regard to EU institutions - Moderator: Richard Crowe, Head of Unit, Legal Service, European Parliament
4. Is Primacy of EU Law a Rule of Law Requirement? - Moderator: Allan Rosas, Professor, College of Europe, Former Judge at the Cour of Justice of the EU
5. The principle of Mutual Trust and its values-related limits, in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and beyond - Moderator: Corinna Wissels, State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction division of the Council of State of the Netherlands
6. The interaction between the Rule of Law, Democracy and Fundamental Rights in EU law - Moderator: Panagiotis Perakis, President of the CCBE

•  TOPIC II - THE NEW GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSION OF THE EU COMPETITION AND TRADE POLICIES 

Panel discussions :

1. The design of the European Union’s   search for strategic autonomy: blurring the lines between its internal market, competition, industrial and trade policies and laws - Moderator: Laurence Gormley, Professor, College of Europe, University of Gronningen
2. From ‘invisible hand’ to overt industrial policy: EU merger control, State aid, and regulating foreign subsidies - Moderator: Kate McKenna, Partner at Matheson LLP, Dublin
3. Sustainability agreements and Article 101 TFEU: Thinking outside the market, quantifying efficiency gains, and including more consumers - Moderator: Mario Siragusa, Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb, Professor, College of Europe
4. Building European Champions through competition law - Moderator: Savvas Papasavvas, Vice-President of the General Court of the EU
5. The geopolitics of regulating supply chains and corporate sustainability - Moderator: Ekaterina Rousseva, Legal Service, European Commission
6. The future of FDI control: balancing EU and Member States’ competences - Moderator: Frank Hoffmeister, Director for General Affairs and Chief Legal Officer of the European External Action Service

•  TOPIC III - EUROPEAN SOCIAL UNION

Panels discussions:

1. Enduring discrimination against mobile workers: assessment and perspectives - Moderator: András Tamás, Head of Unit, Legal Service, European Parliament
2. Demographic Challenges and Brain Drain as a Result of Free Movement - Moderator: Damjan Kukovec, Judge at the General Court of the EU
3. Exploitation of posted workers: should there be new restrictions to posting of workers within the framework of free provision of services in the name of European social Union? - Moderator: Luca Visaggio, Director of the Legal Service, European Parliament
4. The European Pillar of Social Rights and the renaissance of EU social law-making: analysis of the state of play -  too fragmented or too broad? - Moderator: Eugenia Dumitriu-Segnana, Director, Legal Service, Council of the EU
5. The “socialization” of the European semester: what does it mean for national and EU social policies? - Catherine Jacqueson, Professor in EU law, University of Copenhagen
6. Taking the notion of “fair transition” seriously: what transformation of EU social policy is needed? - Moderator: Sacha Prechal, Judge, President of the Second Chamber, Court of Justice of the EU