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| Date: Wednesday, 21/May/2025 | ||||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration and welcome coffee |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Panel 273: Competition in the Digital Era (CODE): Competition in the Digital Age: Geopolitics, Technology and Implications for Europe Location: Room A.0.03, Building A Chair: Antonio Calcara Discussant: Paul Timmers Discussant: Jaša Veselinovič Competition in the Digital Age: Geopolitics, Technology and Implications for Europe Presentations of the Symposium The Paradox of Data Localization: How Europe's Digital Sovereignty Strategy Empowers Non-European Cloud Providers EU-Africa Space Technology Cooperation in the Shadow of Chinese Influence Getting Firms on Board: State-Business Relations and Economic Statecraft Public-Private (mis)alignment: A “Personal” Account |
Panel 152: Cultural governance and EU external relations: The case of European film Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Evangelia Psychogiopoulou Discussant: Caterina Carta Cultural governance and EU external relations: The case of European film Presentations of the Symposium Governing Culture through Enlargement: Audiovisual Cooperation in the EU Enlargement Agenda EU Film Festivals - Balancing the Ambiguity of Competitiveness and Public Diplomacy International promotion of the European film industry: National institutional practices in an evolving policy and technological architecture The EU’s Audiovisual Trade Policy: Audiovisual cooperation and a global trend towards protectionism |
Panel 213: Between norms and strategy: the EP's role in EU's international affairs Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Bruno Luciano Discussant: Bruno Luciano “Between norms and strategy: the EP’s role in EU’s international affairs” Presentations of the Symposium EU-Africa relations and the European Parliament’s pursuit of parliamentary diplomacy Politicization of the European Parliament´s democracy promotion vis-à-vis Venezuela: The recognitions of Juan Guaidó and Edmundo González The European Parliament and Asia: The Case of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) The European Parliament as an international moral actor in the Mediterranean: comparing and contrasting the EP´s reactions to the war in Gaza and the Western Sahara conflict |
Panel Y: EU Trade Regulations in a Fragmented World: Navigating Sustainability and Global Impact Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Salih Işık Bora Discussant: Nidhi Nagabhatla BEYOND MIRROR MECHANISMS, AVENUES FOR A EU FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE TRADE POLICY TO ADDRESS REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS 1: Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament; 2: Rud Pedersen Public Affairs, Belgium Hardening Environmental Instruments towards a ‘Flexilateral’ EU Trade Policy: The Case of Aviation Fuels Brussels School of Governance, Belgium Navigating dissensus beyond borders: The case of deforestation-free supply chains University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Domestic discourse coalitions and international package agreements: Bootleggers, Baptists and policymakers in EU-Mercosur negotiations. Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium |
| Panel 212: The EU as a negotiator of international agreements Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Marine Bardou Discussant: Marine Bardou The EU as a negotiator of international agreements Presentations of the Symposium A shifting cooperation landscape in the context of the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation “It’s not you, it’s the norm”: The role of EU – Brazil relations in the EU – Mercosur negotiations Narrative-based policymaking, after all? Mapping the policy narratives and policy outcomes of the Trade-Development-Migration nexus in the EU "Tackling Turbulence: Unraveling Sino-European Trade Relations and the Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union" Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic |
Panel D: Frictions in EU international affairs: liberalism, borders and sovereignty Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Julien Jeandesboz Discussant: Julien Jeandesboz Fostering Trust Beyond the EU´s Borders in the Era of EU Internal Distrust – A case study of the EU- Mercosur relations. ULB, Belgium (MSCA Phd Student) The narrative of European food sovereignty: a new (hi)story? ULB, Belgium Borders and liberal political communities: the EU at the test of time 1: University of Bologna; 2: University of Bologna Reconfiguring Migration Governance: The EU's External Engagement and Informal Coalition Dynamics Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Panel 205: Author meets critics: EU and Russian Hegemony in the "Shared Naighbourhood" Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Gergana Noutcheva Discussant: Isabell Burmester Author meets critics: EU and Russian Hegemony in the “Shared Neighbourhood” Presentations of the Symposium EU and Russian Hegemony in the “Shared Neighbourhood”: Between Coercion, Prescription, and Co-optation Cultural Ties and Competing Values: EU and Russian Co-optation in Moldova and Armenia Evolving Strategies: EU and Russia's Hegemonic Mechanisms in Moldova and Armenia Imperial Legacies and Modern Hegemony: Comparing EU and Russian Influence |
Panel 300: Into the Crossfire: the role of the EU in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker Discussant: Gustavo Müller Into the Crossfire: The role of the EU in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition Presentations of the Symposium Shielding Strategy: How Member States Navigate External Influences Resorting to the European Union Balancing the Franco-German Duo: The Role of Second-tier Member States and Great Power Patronage in Shaping the European Strategic Autonomy The Strategic Role of the Digital Euro: EU's Policy Evolution in the Face of Global Geopolitical Competition An embedded Superpower? An ontological perspective on EU’s interest and geopolitics |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Panel B: EU-Africa Relations: Power, Partnerships, and Perspective Location: Room A.0.03, Building A Chair: Frank Mattheis Discussant: Frank Mattheis Decentring EU Foreign Policy: Assessing the Influence of African Union Perspectives on EU Conflict Prevention Strategies University of Bologna, Italy Investigating the One Thousand and One directions of the EU-Sahel Interregional Partnership University of Urbino, Italy Navigating Power: China and the EU's Divergent Paths in African Military Aid and Arms Exports University Gent, Belgium EU-Africa Relations and the Coloniality of Money: Analysing funding and financing 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Panel 216: Liminality and ontological security of the in-between countries since Russia's invasion of Ukraine Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Olga Burlyuk Discussant: Fabienne Bossuyt Liminality and ontological security of the in-between countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Presentations of the Symposium Living in the split - The agency of the shared neighbourhood in-between Russia and the EU Managing existential anxiety: Armenia's ontological security since the 2020 war Navigating liminality in International Relations: The EU's neighbours and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine |
Panel G: The European Parliament in Global Affairs: Geopolitics, Agency and Influence Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Gustavo Müller Discussant: Gustavo Müller A Geopolitical Parliament?: An evolutionary analysis of the EP’s response to the Commission’s Geopolitical turn. University of Salzburg, Austria Statehood Conflict, Recognition, and the Agency of Regional Parliaments: The European Parliament and Kosovo 1: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: University of Birmingham, UK From activities to influence? Mechanisms of European Parliament influence on international agreements 1: UCLouvain; 2: F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium |
Panel 142: The Ukraine effect in European security and defence: lessons after three years of war Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Yf Reykers Discussant: Yf Reykers The Ukraine effect in European security and defence: lessons after three years of war Presentations of the Symposium Pacifism, Isolationism or Anti-Americanism? Explaining Public Opposition to Supporting Ukraine against Russia’s War of Aggression European Defence Policy Changes after Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine: a ‘Wake-Up Call’ in Practice? The EU’s Competing Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Defence Innovation and Industry NATO’s return to collective defence (2014-2024): an analysis of the politics of allied military planning |
| Panel 230: Reflecting the external dimensions of EU's global green leadership with comparative research Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Sebastian Oberthür Discussant: Jan Orbie Reflecting the external dimensions of EU’s global green leadership with comparative research Presentations of the Symposium Comparing policy frameworks for the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries Beyond economics: understanding the political opposition to the EU’s autonomous trade- sustainability policies Governing environmental practices through EU trade agreements – a comparative assessment of conditions of effectiveness Climate Leadership or Green Protectionism? The External Dimension of the European Green Deal: Examining the case of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) College of Europe |
Panel 140: ENP in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Georges Masse Discussant: Ibrahim Jouhari Discussant: Paul Nabil Assaf ENP in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities Presentations of the Symposium Analyzing the European Neighbourhood Policy's Human Rights Support in Lebanon: A 2015-2023 Assessment Irregular migration from Lebanon to Europe |
Panel 350: The EU as in/external social policy actor Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Ine Lietaert Chair: Karolina Kluczewska Discussant: Ine Lietaert Discussant: Karolina Kluczewska The EU as in/external social policy actor Presentations of the Symposium The framing of EU social policy initiatives – what drives the agendas? From active learning to a postcolonial frame: the changing role of the EU in Polish family policymaking Outsourcing, marketizing and migrant labour: how EU policy addresses the crisis of social reproduction EU funded youth work on mobility: recreation, regulation or emancipation |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Panel 445: The EU-China Relations in a Changing Global Order Location: Room A.0.03, Building A Chair: Laia Comerma Discussant: Laia Comerma The EU-China Relations in a Changing Global Order Presentations of the Symposium The European Union and the Governance of Strategic Technologies: Between Geopolitical Competition and Multilateral Cooperation Shaping Sustainable Finance? European Engagement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Energy Strategy Understanding The EU’s Securitisation of Critical Raw Materials in the Context of EU-China Relationship A Place in the Sun? the evolving role of the European Parliament in China-EU economic relations Beijing Eyes Brussels: Chinese perceptions of the European tilt to the Indo-Pacific |
Panel 272: Depoliticising EU Migration Policies in Times of Heightened National Politicisation Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Agathe Piquet Chair: Denis Duez Discussant: Florian Trauner Depoliticising EU Migration Policies in Times of Heightened National Politicisation Presentations of the Symposium From the ‘Hotspot Approach’ to the Pact on Migration and Asylum: Agencification and (De-)Politicisation of the New Border Procedure’ The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a Shifting Political Context: Depoliticisation and Repoliticization in EU External Migration Policy Protecting Borders or Protecting Users? Politicization and Depoliticization of the Visa Code reform (2014-2019) Here, Far, Wherever You Are: The EU’s Institutional Communication on Migration Policies |
Panel 380: Trading Green: Sectoral Applications and Policy Mechanisms in the Evolving EU Environmental Trade Policy Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Scott Michael Hamilton Discussant: Teresa Cabrita Discussant: Scott Michael Hamilton Trading Green (Panel 2 of 2): Sectoral Applications and Policy Mechanisms in the Evolving EU Environmental Trade Policy Presentations of the Symposium From Co-Existence to Reinforcement in Trade and Sustainability Nexus: Example of Complementary Jurisdiction for the Multilateral Agreements in EU FTAs A political economy approach to new genomic techniques in plant breeding in the European Union Regulatory Barriers to Scaling SAFs: Safeguarding EU Technological Leadership and Decarbonization Targets in the Context of an Increasingly Interconnected World Structural Barriers to a Green Paradigm Shift in EU Trade Policy?: confronting the ‘scale’, ‘growth imperative’ and ‘power’ challenges accompanying contemporary intra-industry trade, intra-firm trade and common ownership trends |
Panel 279: Securing Europe: Institutional Challenges and Strategic Responses in Defence Policy Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Fernando Moreno Discussant: Fernando Moreno SECURING EUROPE: INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIC RESPONSES IN DEFENCE POLICY Presentations of the Symposium European Global Security & Defence Capabilities: Synergies between CSDP and Multilateral Innovation Partnerships European folk, investment on future defence and institutional governance One more expectation capability gap: An analysis of EU defence financing in the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis The European Union’s Crisis Management Discourse: from the Common Security and Defence Policy to strategic crisis management? 1: University of Stavanger, Norway; 2: VUB, Brussels, Belgium |
| Panel M: Europe in the Geoeconomic Era: Strategies, Risks, and Political Dynamics Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Philippe De Lombaerde Discussant: Philippe De Lombaerde From a Geopolitical Commission to a Geoeconomic Strategy: The risks of de-risking" National School of Political Sciences and Administration, Romania The European Union’s ‘memberness’ in fora of global economic governance: Beyond the membership myth in external representation College of Europe, Belgium The national security implications of inward foreign direct investment Royal Military Academy, Belgium Geopoliticisation meets politicisation: Party-political cleavages on EU geoeconomic trade instruments 1: Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Maastricht University |
Panel 220: Bridging emotions and memory politics in European Foreign Policy Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Heidi Maurer Discussant: Heidi Maurer Bridging emotions and memory politics in European Foreign Policy Presentations of the Symposium How Emotional Memories of Peace and War Shape European Defense Policy A comparative study of memory and emotion in the EU and NATO enlargement decisions after the war in Ukraine Colonial Shame and Imperial Pride: Memory Frames and Emotional Diplomacy between Europe and Turkey EU Foreign Policy faced with its colonial past: Emotion Regulation and Status in International Relations |
Panel 255: European Union external relations towards South America: environmental policies versus trade? Location: Room Bruges, Building PL5 Chair: Bruno Luciano Discussant: Gustavo Müller European Union external relations towards South America: environmental policies versus trade? Presentations of the Symposium Climate policy and climate obstructionism in the stalled EU - Mercosur agreement European Union-Mercosur: The Gordian knots of an inconclusive negotiation The Implications of EU Strategic Partnerships for Regional Roles: The Case of Brazil Talking Through Our Differences: EU – Brazil cooperation in climate change negotiations The European Union, Chile and Lithium: value-based agreements or simply competing against China? |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:00pm - 4:20pm |
Welcome remarks Location: Building M Welcome remarks from the President of Brussels School of Governance, Karel De Gucht |
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| 4:20pm - 5:00pm |
Keynote speech: Marta Kos - EU Commissioner for Enlargement Location: Building M Keynote speech followed by a Q&A session |
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| 5:00pm - 5:15pm |
Coffee break |
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| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
UNU-CRIS 25th Anniversary Roundtable: Past, Present and Future of Regionalism Studies Location: Building M Chair: Frank Mattheis Chair: Philippe De Lombaerde Introductory remarks: Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General.
Speakers:
Frederik Söderbaum, University of Gothenburg;
Luk van Langenhove, UNU-CRIS/VUB;
Louise Fawcett, University of Oxford;
Beatrix Futák-Campbell, University of Leiden;
Adebayo Olukoshi, Wits University;
Gaëlle Le Pavic, UNU-CRIS |
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| 6:45pm - 8:30pm |
Reception sponsored by UNUCRIS and EFAR Location: Building M |
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| Date: Thursday, 22/May/2025 | |||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration and welcome coffee |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Panel T: Challenges and Dilemma in EU Enlargement and Integration Location: Room A.0.03, Building A Chair: Serafine Dinkel Discussant: Serafine Dinkel The Strained Dialogue on Normalization Between Kosovo and Serbia, and Challenges to Further Their EU Integrations Institute for Political Studies, Serbia The Hobbesian Trap in EU Enlargement Leiden university, Netherlands, The Enlargement without Europeanisation? Is the “new” EU enlargement methodology already obsolete? Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” The Weak Link’s Power of Annoyance: Hungary in the Euro-Atlantic System of Alliances Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, Andrássy Universität Budapest The EU’s Political Conditionality for Ukraine and Western Balkan Countries – Comparative Analysis European Humanities University, Ukraine |
Panel 136: The EU's Evolving Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Caroline Bertram Discussant: Caroline Bertram The EU’s Evolving Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus Presentations of the Symposium Striking a Balance? How the European Union Manages the Environment-Trade Nexus The European Union’s Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus at the World Trade Organization and the Impact of the European Green Deal Implementation of Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in EU Free Trade Agreements: Promoting Environmental Reforms? The European Union’s Directive on Corporate Sustainable Development Due Diligence: An Institutional Design Effectiveness Analysis Beyond Economics: Understanding the Political Contestation of the EU’s Unilateral Trade-Environmental Policies |
Panel 287: Outsourced empire? Questioning norms and values of EU external relations Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Vjosa Musliu Discussant: Laura Luciani "Outsourced empire? Questioning norms and values of EU external relations" Presentations of the Symposium Targeted sanctions: thinking EU's engagement with Belarus after the 2020 civic protests Between a rock and a wet place: Diverging values in discussions about deep-sea mining in Northern Europe Green washing authoritarianism? The case of the lithium deal between EU and Serbia Outsourcing 'unwanted' migrants. Mapping out the migration deal between Italy and Albania |
| Panel 288: Protean and Control Power and EU's Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Olga Burlyuk Discussant: Olga Burlyuk Protean and Control Power and EU’s Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood Presentations of the Symposium EU’s Protean and Control Power in times of uncertainty: Russia’s war against Ukraine Inauguration of the EU’s Protean Power: Radical Innovation and Improvisation in the EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 Redefining Control and Protean Power: The EU's Security Responses through Missions and the European Peace Facility in Armenia and Moldova The Limits of EU Protean Power: Why New Strategies Fall Short in the South Caucasus How Certain the Uncertainty Is? The EU-Ukraine relation and cooperation after the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: the limits of control power and the (re)definition of uncertainty |
Panel 448: Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU's role as a Global Actor I Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Kateryna Pishchikova Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU’s role as a Global Actor I Presentations of the Symposium Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union’s Role as a Global Actor The Return of the Repressed: The Colonial History of the EU’s Geopolitical Turn Europe and the Rest’ in Official EU Discourse: Legitimizing ‘Geopolitical Europe’ through the ‘Jungle’ Analogy and Beyond Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in times of Dissensus over LGBT equality Queering European Union Security Policy: invisibility, heteronormativity and binaries in the EU’s approach to Women, Peace and Security Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a paradigmatic shift |
Panel 326: Between Rebordering and Fragmentation: Revisiting the External Dimension of the EU Migration Policy Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Marie-Laure BASILIEN-GAINCHE Discussant: Thomas Spijkerboer Between Rebordering and Fragmentation: Revisiting the External Dimension of the EU Migration Policy Presentations of the Symposium The EU and The (Re)exporting of Borders: Formal and Informal Mode of Externalisation in Migration Matters The EU promoting international migration law or pursuing self-interest? Soft Law in Migration Management: The Risks of Fragmentation in EU’s External Action Hard Borders and Weak Safeguards: Frontex and the Future of EU Externalisation in the Sahel The EU-Turkey Cooperation in the Field of Migration and Asylum. What is Wrong with it and How to Fix it? |
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| Panel 360: Constructing Sovereignty in Cyberspace: the EU's Approach Location: Room A.1.23, Building A Chair: Jamal Shahin Discussant: Jamal Shahin Constructing Sovereignty in Cyberspace: the EU’s approach Presentations of the Symposium Digital Sovereignty in the Euro-Mediterranean Region Altercasting and the EU’s role in digital policy Towards a more “sovereign” EU in technology standard-setting? The EU’s Strategic Pursuit in Space and Cyberspace: Establishing Sovereignty and Security through Mega-Constellations in NGSO |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Panel 411: Fragmentation vs Plurality? The EU as an actor in global digital government Location: Room A.0.03, Building A Chair: Jamal Shahin Discussant: Jamal Shahin Fragmentation vs plurality? The EU as an actor in global digital governance Presentations of the Symposium The future of the Internet: unity or fragmentation? Internet from Space. The Impact of LEO Satellite Constellations on the Technopolitical Configuration of the Internet and the role of the EU Sovereignty and Plurality in the EU's digital development strategy The Digital Fortress Europe and Its Critics: Civil Society Perspectives on EU Border Governance Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany |
Panel 428: EU Pharmaceutical Regulation goes global: Pathways of Influence, role of EU agencies, and non-European perspectives Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Philippe Mongrain Discussant: Philippe Mongrain EU Pharmaceutical Regulation goes global: Pathways of influence, role of EU agencies, and non-European perspectives Presentations of the Symposium From Brussels to the World: The Diffusion of EU Pharmaceutical Legislation towards Developing Economies Borrowing Regulatory Capacity in Middle-Income Countries during Public Health Crises: Brazil, Regulatory Reliance, and the Politics of COVD-19 Vaccine Regulation The Making of Pharmaceutical Business Power in Crisis: State-Led Selection and Vaccine Politics in Argentina Contested unilateralism: The Brazilian normative reception of the European Union Deforestation Regulation Brasilia University, Brazil |
Panel U: Practices and practitioners of EU external action Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Ariadna Ripoll Servent Discussant: Ariadna Ripoll Servent Who are Europe’s Top Diplomats? Towards a Political Sociology of the European External Action Service’s Leadership 1: College of Europe, Belgium, University Paris1 - Panthéon Sorbonne; 2: College of Europe, Belgium, Maastricht University; 3: College of Europe, Belgium; 4: College of Europe, Belgium; 5: College of Europe, Belgium, KU Leuven Economic Sanctions and the Geopolitical Commission: Evaluating the Effects of Decentralised Sanctions Enforcement on the EU’s Global Actorness King's College London, United Kingdom Localising the aid: tension between occidental values and promises to third countries ISPOLE, UCLouvain |
| Panel 218: EU Readmission and return: Towards a normative approach Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Florian Trauner Chair: Philipp Stutz Discussant: TBC To Be Confirmed EU Readmission and return: Towards a normative approach Presentations of the Symposium Changing norms in EU return policy? An analysis of EU documents over four decades EU return and readmission policies and the international refugee regime: From normative constraint to normative complaisance? ‘Do it right, if you must!’ Horn of Africa’s hegemon contest emerging “norms” of return migration When host states oppose to deport: Human rights’ norms and Greek non-deportations to Turkey Negotiating ‘legitimate’ violence in deportation: A bottom-up relational approach to EU policy norms in practice |
Panel 449: Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU's role as a Global Actor II Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Dimitris Bouris Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU’s role as a Global Actor II Presentations of the Symposium EUropean Identity Construction after the Russian Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of EU (Global) Gender Agendas Geopolitics, (in)security and resilience. A feminist critique of the EU’s engagement in Armenia after the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war Aid as pacification. The encroachment of counterterrorism clauses into the aid regime of the European Union in the Occupied Palestinian Territories |
Panel L: EU Trade and Green Policies: Balancing Values and Interests Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Laia Comerma Towards a Hybrid Model: Social Clauses in EU and US Trade Agreements University of Florence, Department of Legal Sciences, Italy Principle or Pragmatism? Geoeconomics and Social Standards in Free Trade Agreements between EU and Southeast Asia University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Technology transfer: a discussion of value and regionalism. The case of the European Union, Colombia, and Peru RTA 1: Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores, Bogota-Colombia; 2: Bocconi University Greening EU foreign policy? Making sense of the incorporation of climate objectives in the EU’s foreign policy 1: Stockholm University; 2: Catholic University Lille; 3: KU Leuven |
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| Panel 285: Roundtable: Beware, the EU might get what is wished for: the discursive pitfalls of a "mature" and "geopolitical" EU Location: Room A.1.23, Building A Chair: Heidi Maurer Discussant: Kolja Raube Roundtable: Beware, the EU might get what it wished for: the discursive pitfalls of a “mature” and “geopolitical” EU Presentations of the Symposium “Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace The (not so) unintended consequences of geopolitics, geoeconomics and maturation The Union's Westphalian Mirage (Not) Coming of age? Unpacking the European Union’s quest for strategic autonomy in security and defence The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market |
Panel 351: Green transition for whom? A critical examination of the EU's critical raw materials supply chains and their implications for human rights and environmental justice Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez Discussant: Alberto Pecoraro Green transition for whom? A critical examination of the EU's critical raw material supply chains and their implications for human rights and environmental justice Presentations of the Symposium Bringing conflict to the table: Critical Raw Materials and Corporate Due diligence for a Just Energy Transition Between safeguarding supply and promoting sustainable development: which role for the EU in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’? The Ethics of Environmental Upgrading in the aftermath of the European Green Deal Ghent University, UNU-CRIS, Belgium |
Panel 215: Georgia-EU relation: a multi-scalar and multi-actors analysis of current trends Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Gaëlle Le Pavic Discussant: Kornely Kakachia Georgia-EU relation: a multi-scalar and multi-actors analysis of current trends Presentations of the Symposium Georgia's Departure from Europe ‘Civil society’ in EU-Georgia relations: different volumes, dissonant voices, harmonious choir? Title: Hierarchical relations at various geographical scales, a structuring factor in EU-Georgian cooperation programmes Declining the Carrot: Why EU Conditionality Didn’t Stick in Georgia |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch break |
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Panel 187: The EU's Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda Reasserted: Navigating Unilateralism, Geopolization and Legitimacy Concerns Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Caroline Bertram Discussant: Jan Orbie The EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda Reasserted: Navigating Unilateralism, Geopolitization and Legitimacy Concerns Presentations of the Symposium Co-Power Europe Of Carrots and Sticks in Clubs: How CBAM Influences EU Trade Partners’ Climate Policies Exporting, Protecting or Transforming the European Model? The Transformation of EU Trade and Industrial Policy over the Past Three Decades EU Trade Policy in Flux: Navigating the Trade-Sustainability-Security Trilemma |
Panel 305: Structural Shifts in Sino-EU Relations: Cooperation, Divergences, and Future Prospects Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Lilei Song Discussant: Tian Gao Discussant: Uli Brückner Structural Shifts in Sino-EU Relations: Cooperation, Divergences, and Future Prospects Presentations of the Symposium Complements or Competitors? Global Gateway vs. BRI from a Strategic Perspective Decoupling, De-risking, and Reconnecting China? Epistemic Communities, Knowledge Production, and Reframing of EU Foreign Policy Open Strategic Autonomy and Its Impact on EU-China Trade: A Case Study of the EU Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles |
Panel 425: The European Peace facility's serendipitous success: geopolitics, partnerships, defence Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Ueli Staeger Discussant: Marijn Hoijtink The European Peace Facility’s serendipitous success: Geopolitics, partnerships, defence Presentations of the Symposium The transformation of the EPF during the Russian geopolitical crisis in Eastern Europe The EPF: the changing locus of justification to EU’s implication in military capacity-building, from security assistance to militarization at home The European Peace Facility and African Agency: How the EU’s changing foreign policy doctrine affects African security Aiming high or settling for “good enough”? The challenges and opportunities of reforming the decision-making in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy European Parliament, Belgium |
| Roundtable on Perspectives for Early Career Scholars Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Julien Jeandesboz Speakers: Ozlem Atikcan, Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University; Antonio Calcara, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB); |
Panel F: The EU's Role in Shaping Technology Governance, Diplomacy and Actorness Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Jamal Shahin Discussant: Jamal Shahin EU Actorness in Global AI Governance: Examining its Influence and Impact in the Council of Europe’s AI Framework Convention University of Amsterdam, Netherlands The digitalisation of European diplomacy: chacun pour soi or collaborative integration in the use of AI? 1: London School of Economic and Political Science, UK; 2: University for Continuous Education, Austria The EU as a Global Space Actor in Times of Increasing Contestation and International Competence Universidad de Granada, Spain |
Panel 407: Transgovernmental Gateways: The Role of EU Agencies and Networks in Shaping EU external governance Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Ellen Vos Discussant: Ellen Vos Transgovernmental Gateways: The Role of EU Agencies and Networks in shaping EU external governance Presentations of the Symposium Patterns of openness in European Administrative Networks: the case of non-EU countries Engagement of EU Agencies with Candidate Countries – Laying the Ground for Future EU Membership The international behavior of EU regulatory agencies: cooperation with candidate countries Improving Consistency and Coordination in EU Agencies’ External Relations |
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| Panel 313: European Security and Defence in Times of War: Responding to Traditional and Emerging Threats Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Daniel Fiott Discussant: Daniel Fiott European Security and Defence in Times of War: Responding to Traditional and Emerging Threats Presentations of the Symposium The EU and Collective Defence: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Article 42.7 TEU in Light of the War in Ukraine The EU fighting terrorist recruiting in gaming environments Information War, Digital Lawfare and Safeguards to Protect Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law The Transformation of the EU Defence Industrial Base after the War in Ukraine |
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Coffee break |
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Panel A: Questioning Externalization: The adaptation of the EU's Migration Governance Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Ine Lietaert Discussant: Ine Lietaert Externalisation of migration management In Europe: Mapping actor coalitions and policy frames University of Warwick, United Kingdom Turning a blind eye: The EU, migration policy and Tunisia’s re-autocratisation under President Kais Saied Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Migration diplomacy in times of crisis: how violent conflict dynamics shape migration governance between the EU, Ukraine, and Moldova Osnabrück University, Germany A new model for the EU? The Italian Cooperation with Albania on migration: between Externalization and the “Internalization” of Borders University of Bologna, Italy |
Panel R: EU Neighbourhood Policy Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Kornely Kakachia Discussant: Tom Casier The EU’s Framing Power : Shaping Policy Debates and (In-) Visibilising Actors in the Neighbourhood? 1: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; 2: BOKU, Austria A Changing Geopolitical Context: A Window of Opportunity for EU Enlargement? University of Westminster, United Kingdom Theorizing European Union Enlargement: An In-Depth Literature Review Lund University, Sweden Mapping Multilevel Dissensus on EU Enlargement Policy: Perspectives from the EU, Georgia, and Serbia Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Warwick & University of Amsterdam |
Panel C: Voices of Influence: Civil Society, Advocacy and Media in the EU's Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods Location: Room F-1.A, Building F Chair: Gaëlle Le Pavic Discussant: Gaëlle Le Pavic Advocacy and Epistemic Communities in the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation. The Role of Expertise University of Catania (Sicily), Italy Europeanization as a subject of political and media polarization in Georgia 1: Center for Social Sciences; 2: Tbilisi State University, Georgia; 3: Georigan Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) Navigating Weaponized History in Moldova: The EU and Russia's Clashing Strategies 1: College of Europe; 2: Maastricht University Civil society as a battleground? A multi-scalar perspective on the 2024 mass mobilisation against the Georgian ‘Foreign Agents Law’ 1: Ghent University & VUB; 2: Sorbonne Nouvelle University & BOKU, Vienna |
| Panel 343: The EU's Geo-Economic Turn: Implications for EU Policy-making Location: Room F-1.B, Building F Chair: Clara Weinhardt Discussant: Thomas Conzelmann The EU’s Geo-Economic Turn: Implications for EU Policy-making Presentations of the Symposium Varieties of Geoeconomics in the Age of Economic Security The European Commission’s Geoeconomic Expert Groups: Crafting New Spaces for Geoeconomic Policymaking Horizontal coordination and locus of power in the geopolitical European Commission European Union support for the World Trade Organization in an age of geopolitics |
Panel 369: Investors, Sustainable Finance, and Global Value Chains Location: Room F-1.C, Building F Chair: Maria Gabriela Ramos-Barrera Discussant: Maria Gabriela Ramos-Barrera Investors, Sustainable Finance, and Global Value Chains Presentations of the Symposium Green Bonds or Green Chains? Assessing Financial Subordination in the Green Finance Transition The Responsibility of Financial and Banking Sector Actors under Value Chain Due Diligence Norms According to OECD NCP Case Law The EU and Central Asia’s Critical Raw Materials: mining companies, their Social License to Operate, and international law Responsible finance for a just green transition: challenges, practices and drivers of cascading human rights due diligence into investment chains The Multiple Roles of Investors in Transnational Ecological Conflicts and Litigation |
Panel 270: Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU's global influence Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Alister Miskimmon Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU’s global influence Presentations of the Symposium Shaping a new order? The EU’s strategic narrative of change and continuity in international order Secular Power Europe vs. the Religious Middle East and North Africa? Narrating EU’s identity in a Multiplex World Order Narratives of EU trade and development policies and how coloniality has shaped EU integration theories Exporting the “European third way”: the EU narrative of a value-based digital order and its global impact The EU: Searching for a New Strategic Narrative |
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| Panel 423: the EU's ambitions in the geopolitics of technology Location: Room Bruges, Building PL5 Chair: Antonio Calcara Discussant: Antonio Calcara The EU’s ambitions in the geopolitics of technology Presentations of the Symposium The Grand Illusion: The EU’s High-Tech Spectacle in Security and Defence The emergence of a transatlantic technology ecosystem: a new driver in EU-NATO relations Emergence of a European digital territoriality: from supply chain security to the promotion of a European model on digital technologies Embracing Techcraft? An Assessment of Secondary Implications of the European shift towards Software-Defined Defence |
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Egmont Policy Panel: Is Europe really rearming? Location: Auditorium, Building A Chairs: Sven Biscop, Egmont Institute & Ghent University Speakers: Inge Ceuppens, Defence Project Manager - DG DEFIS; Lieutenant-General Pierre Gérard, Military Representative of Belgium to NATO and the EU; Vassilis Theodosopoulos, Senior Manager Security anf Defence - ASD;
Alexander Mattelaer, Associate Professor at CSDS-VUB and Senior Research Fellow at Egmont |
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Coffee break |
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ETH Zurich Panel: Strategic Trends in 2025 and their implications for Europe Location: Building M Chair: Giulia Tercovich Presenters:
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| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Reception sponsored by ETH Zurich Location: Building M |
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Registration and welcome coffee |
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Panel N: The Dynamics of EU Enlargement: Framing, Opportunity and Contestation Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Louise Amoris Discussant: Louise Amoris The EU’s Policy in the South Caucasus: Balancing Normative Values and Geopolitical Interests Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France How Russia’s war in Ukraine shifted protean power in EU-Russian relations University of Groningen The European Union’s role in the production of space along and within the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian ‘administrative boundary lines’ 1: United Nations University - Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Mater dolorosa Europe: EU’s memory politics in Bucha, Ukraine Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Global perspective of how to contain or resolve the conflict in Ukraine after the third anniversary of the Russian invasion UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, Mexico |
Panel V: Resource Geopolitics: The EU's Role in Energy Security and Critical Supply Chains Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Kevin Le Merle Discussant: Kevin Le Merle EU Enlargement Policy to the Western Balkans in the Context of Ensuring Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) Supply Chain Resilience Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), Serbia Africa’s Critical Materials: Geopolitical Dynamics and Strategic Implications for the European Union 1: University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hydrogen-fuelled Geopolitics? The Securitization of Energy Cooperation between the EU and Southern Africa Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Mapping EU member state preferences on European strategic autonomy: a three dimensional framework 1: CSDS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
Panel E: Redefining European Security between Fragmentation and Adaptation Location: Room C.1.05, Building A Chair: Antonio Calcara Discussant: Jonata Anicetti The Sources of a Changing European Security Architecture: the Symbolising, Hedging, Offsetting and Bridging Functions of New Security Guarantees in Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium The EU’s fragmented defence governance: Different rationales, different logics 1: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland; 2: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland Reshaping (Dis)Unity: How Internal Dissent Fuels the European Union’s Global Engagement The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom |
Panel P: Addressing China: The EU's Economic and Geopolitical responses Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Thomas Christiansen Discussant: Lilei Song China's influence over the policy design of the EU's new trade defence instruments Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium De-Europeanisation or business as usual?: The effects of Chinese ideational power on Germany and European solidarity Northumbria University, Netherlands, The “Among the Giants: the European Union and its Indo-Pacific Cooperation Strategy against China and the United States in a Geopolitically Fragmented World” Shanghai University, China, People's Republic of |
| Panel Z: Soft Power in Flux: EU Strategies, Global Narratives, and the Dynamics of International Influence Location: Room A.1.23, Building A Chair: Nicole Marie Ostrand Discussant: TBC To Be Confirmed The weakness of the EU soft power strategy 1: Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Hungary; 2: International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina Thinking Out Loud: Exploring Best Practices in Soft Power. A Comparative Analysis between the UK and Other Nations UCL Narrative Empire: The EU’s Discursive Hegemony and Its Imperial Power Beyond Borders UNU-CRIS, Belgium Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a filter and amplifier of the soft power of Russia, China and the EU in Kazakhstan 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: University of Canterbury, New Zealand The role of regions and cities in relations between the EU and US. University of Lodz, Poland |
Panel S: The EU and Democracy Promotion: Elections, Human Rights, and Political Discourse Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Ozlem Atikcan Discussant: Ozlem Atikcan EU missions of election observation and their impact on democracy Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Why Does the European Parliament Promote Human Rights? Emotional Dynamics in Plenary Debates on Turkey and Hungary (2014-2019) Leiden University Populist groups in the European Parliament and Venezuela: navigating political and democratic turmoil in the first quarter of the 21st century 1: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain The (gendered) dehumanisation of Palestinians by European Commission President von der Leyen: A decolonial feminist discourse analysis 1: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNED); 3: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
Panel 362: Green Thinking, Green Teaching: New frontiers in European Studies Education (Roundtable) Location: Room Bruges, Building PL5 Chair: Franziska Petri Discussant: Heidi Maurer speakers:
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Keynote Lecture: European Foreign Affairs Review (EFAR) - The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics Location: Building M Ian Manners
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Best Paper Award for early-career scholars Location: Building M |
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Lunch Break |
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Panel I: EU Development Fragmentation and the Future of Global Gateway Location: Room A.0.05, Building A Chair: Jan Orbie Discussant: TBC To Be Confirmed The Global Gateway and the EU’s Evolving Discourse on Development University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Global Gateway as the future or as the end of the EU's development policy? Emerging evidence from the EU-Africa Green Energy Initiative German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) EU donors in a fragmented aid system: The path to specialisation and division of labour 1: Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; 2: University of Szczecin, Poland Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization Ghent University, Belgium |
Panel Q: The EU and the Future of Inter-regional Cooperation Location: Room Lisbon, Building PL5 Chair: Arantza Gomez Arana Discussant: Arantza Gomez Arana Regional organizations and climate security: communities of practice in EU, NATO and OSCE Stockholm University, Sweden The EU’s role towards other regional organisations in their fight against terrorism Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique The European Union’s Inter-Regional Strategy Making: A Co-Direction Approach to Engaging with Latin America KU Leuven The EU-LAC agenda: (un)balancing between reality and normativity NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Roundtable with Journal Editors Location: Auditorium, Building A Chair: Frank Mattheis Conversation with Journal Editors:
Thomas Christiansen & Anna Herranz Surralles (Journal of European Integration);
Paul James Cardwell (Journal of Common Market Studies);
Yf Reykers (Contemporary Security Policy);
Jocelyn Mawdsley & Bouris Dimitris (European Security Journal);
Natalia Chaban (European Foreign Affairs Review);
Maria Koinova (Migration Studies Journal)
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Panel O: Navigating the Indo-Pacific: The EU's Evolving Security Role and Strategic Ambitions Location: Room A.1.23, Building A Chair: Giulia Tercovich Discussant: Giulia Tercovich The European Union as a Maritime Security Actor in the Indo-Pacific: From ambition to reality? Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden Shifting Leadership in Brussels: Implications for EU Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific Free University Berlin, Germany The EU’s Engagement with the Indo-Pacific: Examining the EU’s Unique Actorness in the Region German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany Crafting a Geopolitical EU Strategy for the Korean Peninsula Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) |
| Panel H: The EU's Climate Diplomacy: Leadership, Partnerships, and External Perspectives Location: Room Rome, Building PL5 Chair: Sebastian Oberthür Discussant: Brendan Moore Partners for the climate? How EU Delegations and CSOs interact in climate diplomacy 1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: Maastricht University, Netherlands How Green is the European Neighbourhood Policy? The Case Study of Climate Change Radboud University, Netherlands, The The European Union’s Global Climate Leadership in a Turbulent World: Between Ambition and Achievement 1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Stockholm University, Sweden Outer dimensions of EU policy coherence: Assessing LULUCF policy interactions and leakage effects of EU with Brazil and Indonesia 1: Thuenen institute, Germany; 2: Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil; 3: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, IPAM, Brazil; 4: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia |
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