Past Speakers

The European Union East Enlargement

Issues of Transition, New Migratory Patterns, Side Effects for the Internal Market

The series of talks we are proposing aims to highlight contrasting patterns of Europhilia and resistance to integration in Eastern Europe. We wish to invite members of the European Court of Justice and of the Commission, as well as scholars who have been working on the subject of Eastern accession.

The enlargement framework offers room for ample perspectives and for several themes. The primary focus will be the role of the European economic constitution after May 2004. Ideally, the talks will explore the effects of an enlarged space of free movement for social policy-makers, for economic actors in the new member states, for migrants, and for receiving institutions in the older member states.

Issues of transition, including the evolution of democratic mechanisms, the activation of new chains of decision making, and the constitutional implications of accession, will provide a valuable framework for revisiting the meaning of market freedom in the context of enlargement.

Planned Events

Wednesday, February 13, 2008: "Democracy and Supremacy: Central and Eastern European Constitutional Courts vis-a-vis the Principle of Supremacy of EU Law", a Talk by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, European University Institute/University of Sydney

Previous Events

Friday, November 2, 2007, 2.30 p.m., Austin West: "European Constitutionalism after the Enlargement: A Crisis of Passion or of Reason?" A Talk by Advocate General Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro, European Court of Justice. Discussant: Professor Daniela Caruso, Boston University