XXX Fide Congress Sofia 2023

Topic I - Mutual Trust, Mutual Recognition and the Rule of Law

Panels : 

1. Mutual Trust, Rule of Law, Constitutional Identities of the EU and of its Member States: normative foundations
2. Instruments and Mechanisms for Protecting the Rule of Law in the Member States. Litigating Rule of Law in national courts
3. The Rule of Law at the EU level and with regard to EU institutions
4.  Is Primacy of EU Law a Rule of Law Requirement?
5.  The principle of Mutual Trust and its values-related limits, in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and beyond
6.  The interaction between the Rule of Law, Democracy and Fundamental Rights in EU law

 Topic II - The new geopolitical dimension of the   EU competition and trade policies  

 Panels :

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 
2. From ‘invisible hand’ to overt industrial policy: EU merger control, State aid, and regulating foreign subsidies 
3. Sustainability agreements and Article 101 TFEU: Thinking outside the market, quantifying efficiency gains, and including more consumers 
4. Building European Champions through competition law 
5. The geopolitics of regulating supply chains and corporate sustainability 
6. The future of FDI control: balancing EU and Member States’ competences

 Topic III - European Social Union

Panels :

1.  Enduring discrimination against mobile workers: assessment and perspectives
2. Demographic Challenges and Brain Drain as a Result of Free Movement 
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?
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?
5. The “socialization” of the European semester: what does it mean for national and EU social policies?
6. Taking the notion of “fair transition” seriously: what transformation of EU social policy is needed?