Following the Money: European Integration Through Law – or Against?

From its inception, the Economic and Monetary Union has developed in a way that deviates sharply from the core treaty provisions, Art. 123 and 125 TFEU above all. One would also need an enormous amount of jurisprudential phantasy to see the developments in EU budgetary politics within the range of the Treaties - the overstretch of Art. 122 and 311 (2) TFEU is obvious. The current challenge to finance defence efforts and the support for Ukraine are putting the budgetary system under additional stress. Nonetheless, catastrophy did not take place - the Eurozone still exists, the EU survived COVID, and support for Ukraine continues. What can we say as EU lawyers facing this contradiction?

Speaker

Professor Matthias Ruffert, Professor Humboldt University-Berlin

Born 1966; 1987-1992 Legal Studies in Passau, Trier (both Germany) and London (King's College); 1992/1993 Stagiaire at the European Commission (DG XI – Environment); 1994-1996 Legal Traineeship; 1996 Dr. iur. in Trier, Assistant of Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schröder, 2000 Dr. iur. habil. in Trier; 2002-2016 Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris XI, Sceaux (2006), the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (2016) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2017); 2011-2014 Jean Monnet Professor, 2013-2016 Academic Co-ordinator of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; 2006-2016 Judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal of Thuringia; 2010-2015 Member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court; 2008-2016 Member of the Review Board “Jurisprudence” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German National Science Foundation (from 2010 onwards as spokesperson); since April 2016 Professor of Public Law and European Law at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin; Spokesperson of the Research Training Group "Dynamic Integration (DynamInt at Humboldt University Berlin (funded by the German Research Foundation – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

Chair - TBC

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