Conditionality and the Rule of Law in the European Union - Seminar

Department: Law & Tax Department

Organizers: Louise FROMONT & Arnaud VAN WAEYENBERGE

Location: Le Château HEC Paris

The seminar aims to explore the use of conditionality to ensure the respect for the Rule of Law through economic and budgetary instruments. It will bring together researchers and experts in the area of European economic governance and values of the European Union. Participants will discuss several challenges raised by economic and budgetary instruments in the fight for the Rule of Law: the links between budgetary conditionality and fundamental rights, the process by which the Rule of Law is protected by economic and budgetary instruments – that can be described as “economization” of the Rule of law – and finally the politicisation and democratisation of European economic governance.

09:30 - 10:00    Welcome Coffee

10:00 - 10:10    Opening Remarks
                            Arnaud Van Waeyenberge - Associate professor at HEC Paris and lecturer at ULB

10:10 - 11:30    Opening keynote - Economic Conditionality and the Rule of Law in the European Union
                            Saskia Hollander - Clingendael Institute

11:30 - 12:30    Roundtable 1 - Fundamental Rights in Economic and Budgetary Instruments
                           Keynote: Cécilia Rizcallah - Professor at UCLouvain, research associate at F.R.S.-FNRS & visiting professor at ULB

12:30-13:30      Lunch break

13:30-14:30      Roundtable 2 - The “economisation” of the Rule of Law
                            Keynote: Roïla Mavrouli - Postdoctoral research fellow at CNRS/EUI
                            Moderator: Pauline Thinus - Doctoral researcher at IEE-CEVIPOL, U LB

14:30 - 14:45    Coffee break

14:45 - 15:45    Roundtable 3 - Politicisation and Democratisation of the European Economic Governance
                            Keynote: Amandine Crespy - Professor at IEE-CEVIPOL, ULB
                            Keynote & moderator: Dimitrios Argyroulis - Postdoctoral research fellow at IEE-CEVIPOL, ULB

15:45 - 16:00    Concluding remarks
                            Arnaud Van Waeyenberge - Associate Professor at HEC Paris & lecturer at ULB
                            Louise Fromont - Research associate at HEC Paris, research associate at F.R.S.-FNR S & lecturer at ULB

Learn more:

Find #HECRuleofLaw on X.

Learn about the research in this article here.

Watch the video on the past conference on the Rule of Law here (November 16 and 17 in Brussels).