CES 2023 : Symposium on Dissensus & the Rule of Law
Centered on the theme “Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias”, The 29th International conference of Europeanists will be hosted in Reykjavik by the University of Iceland, from the 27th to the 29th of June 2023.
RED-SPINEL will be represented in CES after a successful submission of the symposium entitled “Understanding growing dissensus over liberal democracy and the rule of law”, composed of 19 papers divided into 4 panels.
This submission marks the first milestone of RED-SPINEL, and it was prepared by the team involved in work package 1.
Chaired by Ramona Coman and Nathalie Brack the discussions will address the following questions:
- What is the nature of the current dissensus and how disruptive is it to the EU?
- How have EU institutional actors and instruments contributed and responded to this increased dissensus?
- What are the implications of this dissensus for policy instruments at EU and Member State levels.
Panel 1: Debating the Concept of Dissensus over Liberal Democracy and the Rule of Law
Discussant : Luca Tomini (IEE-ULB, CEVIPOL)
- Understanding dissensus in the age of crises: theoretical reflexions by Nathalie Brack and Ramona Coman (IEE-ULB, CEVIPOL)
- Constitutional dissensus: constitutional deconstruction or new constitutionalism? The Polish case by Dr Wojciech Włoch and Dr hab. Maciej Serowaniec (NCU)
- The Dissensus by which a (European) People Becomes a People by Martin Deleixhe (ULB, Centre de Théorie Politique)
- Dissensus or consensus of narratives? ‘Rule of law’ versus ‘European way of life’ as masterframes of Europeanness by François Foret (IEE-ULB, CEVIPOL)
Panel 2 : Dissensus & the Rule of Law - EU instruments Discussant : Thomas Christiansen (LUISS)
- Domestic factors and compliance in the case of the CVM in Bulgaria and Romania by Ruth Ferrero(UCM) & Gisela Hernández (IPP-CSIC)
- Rule of Law Regulation: a Game-Changing Mechanism? by Prof. dr. Aleksandra Maatsch (Jean Monnet Chair, University of Wroclaw)
- Dealing with the rule of law dissensus in the Council of the EU. Insights from Article 7 TEU hearings by Ramona Coman and Pauline Thinus (IEE-ULB, CEVIPOL)
- National governments and the enforcement of rule of law by Carlos Closa (IPP-CSIC, STG-EUI) & Gisela Hernández (IPP-CSIC)
- The EU budget and the use of conditionality: A case of mounting dissensus? by Cristina Fasone and Marta Simoncini (LUISS)
Panel 3 : Dissensus & the Rule of Law - The managerial turn of EU's Rule of Law Policy
Discussant: Cristina Fasone (LUISS)
- The Challenge of Legitimising Economic Governance in the EU: The Case of the European Semester by Andrea Capati and Thomas Christiansen (LUISS)
- The paradoxes of EU’s fight for the rule of law by Louise Fromont (IEE-ULB)
- EU responses to the democratic deficit and the rule of law crisis: European exceptionalism under the managerial turn by Roïla Mavrouli (HEC Paris)
- National resistance to the new management tool by Ioannis Michalis (Paris 1)
- United in diversity: The margin of appreciation doctrine in times of rule of law crisis by Cecilia Rizcallah, (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, KU Leuven, ULB)
Panel 4 : Who is contesting the Rule of Law in Europe Today? Actors of Dissensus
Discussant : Akif Cem Ozkardes (IEE-ULB, CEVIPOL)
- Opposing liberal democracy: discursive strategies of populist radical right parties in the EP on the rule of law by Nathalie Brack, Ramona Coman (IEE-ULB)
- Crises, Political Attitudes and Values: Understanding a Fundamental Dissensus about the EU by Sergiu Gherghina (University of Glasgow, UBB) & Sergiu Miscoiu (UBB)
- Informal Control of Legislative Networks in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova by Marta Matrakova (IEE-ULB)
- Reluctant Actors of Democracy: European Trade Policy and the Democratic Imperative by Frederik Ponjaert (IEE-ULB)
- Illiberal Networks in Hungary, Poland and Romania: exploring their influence on party elites by Leonardo Puleo, Emilien Paulis & Noemi Trino (IEE-ULB)
