Integration Through Law and the European Union

We will organize a one-day international conference on the study of European Union law with a focus on integration through law both from a perspective of long-term integration development and crisis management in recent years.

The European Union is powerful with its exclusive competence for the functioning of internal market competition rules combined with the effective design of the internal market by way of secondary law. The power of the EU is reinforced by the directly applicable law that cannot be discarded by Member States, while the institutional position of the Court of Justice of the EU is continuously reinforced.

We want to start a self-critical discourse with this conference. Several crucial cross-sectional themes relevant for a resilient democratic community will be addressed in several panels, such as legitimacy, representation, populism, as well as European integration path dependencies.