Friday 8 December 2023
Centre Panthéon, Salle 216, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris
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Programme

9:15      Welcome by Nicholas Sowels, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The challenges of the war in Ukraine

9:30       Interparliamentary cooperation in the EU in the face of the war in Ukraine
Michał Dulak, Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University

9:50       Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of rule of law backsliding on the EU’s response to the Russo-Ukrainian war
Benedetta Lobina, PhD candidate, University College Dublin

10:10    How the Western capital markets and investors have financed or otherwise contributed to the war machine of Russia in the last decade
Bahram Soltani, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

10:30    Discussion and break

EU relations with the United States and United Kingdom

11:00    Governance and policy implications of the Inflation Reduction Act and its European response
Maria Latorre, Professor, and David Suarez Cuesta, PhD student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (online communication)

11:20    The changing relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom after Brexit
Nicholas Sowels, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The international order and geoeconomics

11:40    The European Union’s efforts to uphold the international rules-based order: a mission impossible?
Jan Wouters, Full Professor, KU Leuven

12:00    The European Union’s geoeconomics tools in an Multi Polar World
Unai Gómez-Hernández, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven

12:20    Discussion then lunch break

Climate, migration and the Artic

2:15        The European Union in its pursuit of being a global leader in the area of climate neutrality and renewable energy development
Olesia Tkachuk, Assistant Lecturer, Jagiellonian University

2:40       European Union water diplomacy: a tool to strengthen the EU’s soft power on environmental governance
Ignacio Álvarez Arcá, Lecturer, Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Madrid 

3:00       A safer and more sustainable Artic: how the European Union can underpin governance and international law

Elena Conde Pérez, Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

3:20       The European Union on the Arctic chessboard: the potential key role of the EU to defuse tensions in the Arctic through science diplomacy
Irene Ballesteros, lawyer and PhD candidate, Institute of Peace and Conflict (IPAZ), University of Granada (online communication)

3:40       Discussion & Break

Peace and defence

4:30     European Union peace capacities and mediation: an analysis of EU’s integration of the Women, Peace, and Security and Youth, Peace, and Security Agendas
Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina, Researcher, University of Granada and University of Salamanca (online communication)

4:50       Towards autonomous defence capacities of the European Union: upgrading the cyberspace policy
Eimys Ortiz-Hernandez, Lecturer, University of Lleida

5:10       Discussion and conclusion of the conference