'The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation': CELS Seminar (audio)

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Description: Speakers: Professor Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) and Dr Markus W. Gehring, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Member of CELS.

Abstract: On 18 September 2023 the Group of 12 Experts from both France and Germany released their proposal ‘Sailing on High Seas: Reforming and Enlarging the EU for the 21st Century’. The Group make two proposals on the Rule of Law and five further proposals for institutional reform. Overall, the Group had three objectives to increase the EU’s capacity to act, to get the institutions ready for enlargement and strengthen democratic legitimacy and rule of law. This resulted in a series of proposals for inter alia treaty change. The proposals are all on a continuum but largely aim for reform rather than a recreation of the European Union. They align with other reform proposals and at times take up proposals that were made for EU reform in the past or indeed discussed during the EU Constitutional convention process in the early 2000s. The objective here was clearly reformation rather than revolution. This conversation discusses some of the individual reform proposals in the context of the practice of the Court of Justice – could these proposal mean the beginning of 'Europe’s Second Constitution'?

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https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series
 
Created: 2024-05-09 17:09
Collection: Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Seminar Series
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Daniel Bates
Language: eng (English)
Distribution: World     (downloadable)
Categories: iTunes - Law & Politics - Law
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