Conference - The Lisbon Treaty - a Step Towards Integrating Welfare Functions into EU Law

At present, it is widely accepted that EU law has an impact on the provision of welfare in the Member States. However, little attention has been paid to the question of the extent to which EU law ensures the provision of core welfare functions and whether there are any observable trends. The expected adoption of the Lisbon Treaty presents an occasion to consider these questions. This conference will bring leading legal scholars from a number of European countries to consider the question of whether welfare functions can be expected to become increasingly integrated into EU law folIowing the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.

22/05/2008


The Lisbon Treaty

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a Step Towards Integrating Welfare Functions into EU Law?

Friday 29

August 2008

Copenhagen Business School Ernst & Young Lecture Hall SPs.03

Solbjerg Plads 3

2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

Programme:

Panel
I: New Aims and Values of the EU?

Chair: Professor Markus Krajewski, University of Potsdam

Speakers:

Professor Christian Joerges, University of Bremen: The Renaissanee of the European Economic Constitution

Professor Bruno de Witte, European Dniversity Institute: Welfare Values and Welfare Integration under the Lisbon Treaty

Joint discussion

Panel II: The Relationship between Prohibitions against

Discrimination and Integration of Welfare Functions into EU law

Chair: Researcher Ronald Craig, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo

Speakers:

Professor Lynn Roseberry, Copenhagen Business School:

The Relationship between Prohibitions against Oiscrimination and Integration ofWelfare Functions in to ED law: The Example ofThird­Country Nationals Professor Beate Rudolf, Freie Dniversitat Berlin: The Relationship between Prohibitions against Oiscrimination and Integration of Welfare Functions in to ED law: The Relevance of Gender Equality

Professor Aileen McColgan, King's College, London: Prohibitions against Oiscrimination and Integration ofWelfare Functions into ED law: Potential Pitfalls?

Joint discussion

Panel III: Liberalisation of Public Welfare Services

Chair: Professor Torbjorn Andersson, University of Uppsala

Speakers:

Professor Ulla Neergaard, Copenhagen Business School: Services of General (Economic) Interest: What Goals and Values Count?

Ass. Professor Vassilis Hatzopoulos, Democritus University ofThrace (Greece): Health Services of General Interest

Research Fellow Grith 0lykke, Copenhagen Business School: Legal Perspectives on low Pricebids by (previous) National Monopoly Providers participating in Public Procurement Procedures ­exemplified by Public Procurement of Railway Services in Denmark

Professor Erika Szyszczak, Leicester University: Legal Tools in the Liberalisation ofWelfare Markets

Joint discussion

Panel IV: Union Citizens and Migrant Workers

Chair: Professor Silvana Sciarra, Universita degli Studi di Firenze

Speakers:

Professor Ruth Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Migrant Workers' Access to Welfare Functions

Professor Andrzej Swiatkowski, Krakow University: European Union Citizenship and Rights of Access to Welfare Services as Compared to Welfare Rights Guaranteed by the Council of Europe as Seen from the Perspective of a New Member State

Professor Michael Dougan, Liverpool Law School: Union Citizenship and the Principle of Solidarity Within and Beyond the National Welfare States

Joint discussion

Conclusion

Cocktails and networking

Tid: 29.09 9.00 - 29.08 17.30

Sted: Copenhage Business School

Solbjerg plads 3

2000 Frederiksberg

Lokale: Ernst & Young Lecture Hall SPs.03

Sidst opdateret: Sekretariat for Ledelse og Kommunikation // 22/08/2008