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5 July 2018, 12:30 – 7 p.m.
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Join us for the RECONNECT Kick-off Conference at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels. We are honored to present Dr. Adam Bodnar, Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland and H.E. Didier Reynders, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgium as keynote speakers. We will also share key messages from Emily O’Reilly, European Ombudsman, and Sophie in’t Veld, MEP.
You are invited to take part in two Policy Roundtables with representatives from the EU institutions, civil society organizations and academia concerned with the state of democracy and the rule of law in the EU.
Policy Roundtable: Strengthening Democracy in the European Union
Chair: Prof. Dr. Julie Smith, Baroness of Newnham (Director of the European Centre, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University; Member of the House of Lords)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Alemanno (Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Risk Regulation at HEC Paris, Director and Co-founder of ‘The Good Lobby’)
Dr. Richard Youngs (Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe)
Ms. Zselyke Csaky (Senior Researcher at Freedom House)
Prof. Dr. Vivien Schmidt (Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Professor of Political Science, Boston University)
Prof. Dr. Carlos Closa Montero (Professor, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council)
Policy Roundtable: Addressing Rule of Law Challenges in the EU
Chair: Prof. Dr. Laurent Pech (Jean Monnet Chair of European Public Law, Middlesex University London)
Mr. Emmanuel Crabit (Director for Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law, DG Justice and Consumers)
Ms. Marie-Helene Boulanger (Head of Unit for Union Citizenship and Free Movement, DG Justice and Consumers)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mattelaer (Director of the European Affairs programme at Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations; Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Prof. Dr. Petra Bárd (Lecturer, Central European University)
Prof. Dr. Dimitry Kochenov (Professor of EU Constitutional Law, Department of European and Economic Law, University of Groningen)
Programme:
12:30 Registration and lunch
13:15 – 18:00 Keynote addresses and policy roundtables
18:10 Reception