Month: June 2020

On Monday, 22.6.2020, The British Embassy, Centre for European Perspective and Bled Strategic Forum hosted webinar entitled: When Brexit meets a pandemic: What’s next for the UK–EU future relationship?.

The moderator of the e-event, Katja Geršak (Executive Director of Centre for European Perspective – CEP) was joined by four distinguished speakers:

• Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe,
• HE Sophie Honey, British Ambassador to Slovenia,
• Matej Avbelj, Professor of European Law, New University,
• Ulla Hudina, Representative of the Slovene Government (TBA).

A video of the webinar can be viewed here.

You are cordially invited to the Webinar entitled: When Brexit meets a pandemic: What’s next for the UK–EU future relationship?, which will be organized by The British Embassy, Centre for European Perspective and Bled Strategic Forum.

The e-event will take place on Monday, 22 June 2020, 12:30 CET via Zoom application.

Please find more information about e-event here.

On Wednesday, 10.6.2020, New University, together with the group Diritti Comparati, hosted a webinar, featuring:

• Matej Avbelj (New University),
• Giacomo Delledonne (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa),
• Jernej Letnar Černič (New University),
• Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa),
• Paul Blokker (University of Bologna),
• Roberto Castaldi (CesUE, EURACTIV Italia),
• Armen Mazmanyan (American University of Armenia).

A video of the webinar can be viewed here.

On Thursday, 4 June 2020, New University hosted the e-academic forum dedicated to the launch of the book on »The Impact of European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Democracy: Slovenia and Beyond«.

The speakers – Wojciech Sadurski (Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, The University of Sydney Law School), Gabor Halmai (Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, European University Institute), Bojan Bugarič (Professor of Law, The University of Sheffield), Jernej Letnar Černič (Associate Professor of Human Rights, The New University) and Matej Avbelj (Professor of European Law, The New University) – took the book as its point of departure to discuss, in particular, the following questions:

• What are the differences and similarities of the crises of constitutional democracy in Central Europe, with a special focus on Hungary, Poland and Slovenia?
• What could and should be done about it on the national and supranational level?

A video of a e-academic forum can be viewed here.