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The Ghent European Law Institute (GELI) and the  Centre d’études juridiques européennes (CEJE) are organising a doctoral workshop on “EU External Action in a Shifting World Order: Legal and Institutional Dynamics”. 

Monday 17 November

13:30 Welcoming and registration of participants

13:45 Welcome addres Prof. Inge Govaere

Panel 1: In Search of EU Strategic Autonomy: Legal Instruments and Mechanisms (14:00 – 16:00)

14:00 The Common Commercial Policy in the Age of Strategic Competition: Economic Statecraft and the Geopolitisation of the Internal Market Enrico Tinti

14:15 Externalising EU State Aid Rules and Internalising WTO Reform? An Analysis of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation in the Context of the EU’s Strategic Autonomy Concept Marc Oliver Heim

14:30 At the intersection of Strategic Autonomy and Economic Security: missing the target? Christos Karetsos

14:45 Bridging the Legal Gap: The Silence of CeDeFi in MiCA and Its Implications for EU Digital Sovereignty Najmeh Soltanzadeh

 15:45 Coffee break

Panel 2:  Trade in a Shifting World Order: Challenges of Digitalisation and Enforcement (16:00 – 18:00)

16:00 Risks and Relevance: Assessing the Alignment of the EU’s Enforcement of International Trade Rules with EU Treaty Objectives Julie Bowley

16:15 Are EU Bilateral Trade Committees Developing Technical Standards Autonomously from the WTO? Alexander Lejeune

16:30 The End of Comparative Advantage? The EU’s Trade Architecture in a Post-Liberal World Najib Zamani

16:45 Strategic Shift in EU Digital Trade Governance Jiyeong Go

Tuesday 18 November

Panel 3: Human Rights under Pressure (09:30 - 12:00)

09:30 Towards a coherent approach to fundamental rights claims in EU external action? A comparative analysis of the CJEU’s recent jurisprudence in the AFSJ and CFSP Lea Schubert

09:45 Reaffirming, Refining and Reinforcing: Recent Trends in the Deepening of Common Values and Fundamental Rights Protection in EU/EEA Relations Jarne De Geyter

10:00 Global Human Rights Sanctions as an Emerging Mechanism of Transnational Human Rights Enforcement: Legal and Institutional Implications for the EU’s External Action Yifan Jia

10:15 S.S. and others v. Italy: Yet Another Case of Judicial Deference towards Migration Management Externalization Margherita Branca

10:30 The European Union as a Normative Power and the Challenges of International Humanitarian Law in its External Action Alycia Durlot

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Keynote lecture Ms. Mercedes García Pérez 

Panel 4:  Common Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of War (13:30 – 15:00)

13:30 The EU Common Foreign and Security Policy in a Shifting World Order: Legal Challenges Arising from the Russian and Iranian Crises Maryam Sodayreh

13:45 Implementing the Responsibility to Prevent: The European Union and its preventive engagement in the Common Foreign and Security Policy Enrico Zannarini

14:00 Collective Defence in NATO and the EU: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Articles 5 NAT and 42.7 TEU Amid the War in Ukraine Federica Fazio

Panel 5: Revisiting the EU’s post-Lisbon framework for EU external action (15:00 - 16:00)

15:00 “EU External Action in a Shifting World Order” – Article 218(7) TFEU as an Emerging Power in External Treaty Making? Ewa Romanowska

15:15 Erosion of external sovereignty? The decline of Member States’ exclusive external competences in EU law Mateusz Mitek

16:00 Closing remarks Prof. Peter Van Elsuwege

16:30 End of the Workshop