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RECON Baltic Expert WorkshopEuropean Integration – Challenges and Visions from the Baltic Perspective: Debates on the Future of Europe from the Constitutional to the Lisbon Treaty and beyondWP 2 - Constitutional politicsRiga, 20-21 November 2008
Venue: Riga Graduate School of Law, Strēlnieku ielā 4 k-2
Workshop summary (D25) (pdf)
The workshop will bring together leading scholars from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania exploring the EU's constitutional future and the prospects for supranational democracy in the EU from multidisciplinary perspectives. The main goal of the workshop is to map priorities, visions and discourses of various actors from three post-Soviet member states of the EU on the constitutionalization and the directions of the development of the supranational democracy in the context of the enlarged Union. Through analyzing constitutional and legal-institutional adaptations at the national levels as well as the role of intermediary organizations and mass media in each country the workshop seeks to explain and compare the prospects for supranational democracy in Europe as conceptualized by three RECON models among three selected Baltic countries.
Online registration form (deadline 7 November 2008) More information on the RGSL's website
Conference materials (download pdf - login required)
Some of the contributions to the workshop are published in the RECON Research Report WP 2: 'European Integration from the Baltic Perspective: Constitutional Challenges, Conflicting Interests and Eastern Neighbours of the EU', edited by Tatjana Evas (University of Bremen), December 2011.
Programme
Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:30 Registration and coffee Opening of the workshop Prof. Dr. iur. Lesley Jane Smith, Rector, Riga Graduate School of Law 10:15 Reconstituting democracy in Europe 10:45 Discussion 11:00-12:45 Panel I: Challenges from national Constitutions and legal dilemmas in the process of debates on European Union reforms Moderator: Prof. Dr. iur. Thomass Schmitz, Guest lecturer of the DAAD, University of Latvia 11:10 The EU Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty: the matrix reloaded? Dr. Irmantas Jarukaitis, Researcher, University of Vilnius 11:35 Legal scholarship in the Baltic states: Prospects for effective participation in European governance discourse Dr. Anneli Albi, Lecturer, University of Kent 12:00 Collisions between the European Union and national legal norms; and the general principles of law Dr. Daiga Iljanova, Associate professor, University of Latvia 12:25 Comments and discussion 12:45-13:30 Lunch buffet Panel II: Intermediaries in the political process: role, structure and positions of interest groups in deliberations on Europe Moderator: Dr. Elmar Römpczyk, Coordinator of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung for Baltic countries 13:40 Title tba Dr. Irena Kalnina, Legal Counsel, Latvian Telecommunications and Post Office, Worker's Trade Union 14:05 Overcome the gap in social trust Peep Peterson, Chairman of the Board, Estonian Trade Union of Transport Workers 14:30 Title tba Alda Ozola-Matule, Chairwoman, Latvian Green Movement NGO 14:55 Collision of interests over the North Stream: the policy means to manage the divergence of corporate, national, regional and European perspectives within the Union Dr. Csaba Törö 15:20 Comments and Discussion Coffee break 16:00-18:10 Panel III: Eastern boarders and the enlarging EU: the current situation and future perspectives Moderator tba 16:10 Future of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the first generation of “enhanced agreements” with the neighbouring countries: Cases of Ukraine and Russia Prof. Dr. Roman Petrov, Professor, Donetsk National University and Chairman of the Ukrainian European Studies Association 16:35 EU Neighbourhood Policy towards Belarus: challenges and future prospective 17:00 Comparative-legal analysis of European and Belorusian conflict-of-laws provisions Dr. Alena Babkina, Head of the Department of International Private and European Law, Belarusian State University 17:25 European Union and Belarus: Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Dr. Vadzim Samarin, Associate Professor, Chair of Criminal Procedure, Belarusian State University 17:50 Comments and discussion 19:00-20:30 Reception at the Riga Graduate School of Law Friday, 21 November 2008 09:15 Registration and Coffee 09:45-11:55 Panel IV: National MS interests vs. Baltic regional interest vs. European? Perspectives and parameters of cooperation between national and European levels on EU Moderator: 09:55 Latvian and European interests in the Eastern partnership initiative Dr. Toms Rostoks, University of Latvia 10:20 Is the Common House of Europe being built on democratic foundations? Vytautas Sirijos Gira, Analyst, Centre for Eastern Geopolitical Studies, Lithuania 10:45 Interests and possibilities for a Baltic cooperation in legal matters in the EU Dr. Christoph Schewe, DAAD-Lecturer, University of Tartu 11:10 Representation of national interests in the EU and organisational infrastructure for the coordination of member states'national opinion: the case of administration of the European agricultural fund’s of the rural development amount for Lithuania Živilė Šukyte, Chief Specialist, Ministry of the Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania and PhD candidate and lecturer, Vytautas Magnus University Comments and discussion 11:55-12:45 Lunch buffet Panel IV: Deliberative public sphere - a wishful thinking or an emerging reality? Role of the Baltic mass media in communicating European debate to the publics Moderator: 12:55 The role and future of professional journalism in deliberative public sphere: Baltic media perspective Dr. Halliki Harro-Loit 13:20 How does the ‘going local’ work in practice? Disclosing EU news and information management publics in Lithuania Ausra Vinciuniene 13:45 Title tba Ansis BOGUSTOVS, Journalist 14:10 Comments and discussion Closing of the workshop - Round table discussion Prof. Dr. iur. Lesley Jane Smith The workshop is free of charge but limited to registered participants. The language of the workshop is English. Translation to Latvian and Russian ensured.
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