Programme
Day 1, September 18, 2023
10:00 – 10:15 Workshop welcome
10:15 – 12:30 Panel: Rule of Law and Democracy
Chair: Antoinette Scherz (Stockholm University and University of Oslo – ENROL)
Attila Mráz (Stockholm University) Undemocratic Parts in a Democratic Whole? Normative Challenges of EP Elections in Backsliding EU Member States
Comment: Vlad Makszimov (University of Oslo – ENROL)
Franca Feisel (EUI) Democratic Self-Defence by a Transnational, Non-Sovereign (and Non-Democratic?) Polity? What the Concept of Militant Democracy Tells Us about the Nature of the EU and Vice Versa
Comment: Zsolt Kapelner (University of Oslo)
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 18:00: Panel: Different RoL Enforcement Tools
Chair: Christophe Hillion (University of Oslo – ENROL)
Bertjan Wolthuis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Democratic Backsliding, the Rule of European Law and Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union
Comment: Antoinette Scherz (University of Oslo)
Antoinette Scherz (University of Oslo – ENROL) How Should the EU Respond to Democratic Backsliding? A Normative Assessment of Expulsion and Suspension of Voting Rights from the Perspective of Multilateral Democracy
Comment: Hallvard Sandven (University of Oslo)
Soso Makaradze (University of Salzburg) Member States’ Differential Support for the RoL Enforcement in the Council of the EU
Comment: Jonathan Kuyper (University of Oslo)
19:00 Dinner at Smalhans
Day 2, September 19, 2023
10:00 – 12:15 Panel: Backsliding and the Way Forward
Chair: Daniel Naurin (University of Oslo – ENROL)
Tom Theuns (Leiden University) Protecting Democracy in Europe. Chapter 5: Correcting Complicity in EU Democratic Backsliding.
Comment: Alida Steigler (University of Oslo – ENROL)
Fabio Wolkenstein (University of Vienna) Democratic Regressions: Subversions of Popular Rule and Paths to Recovery
Comment: Christophe Hillion (University of Oslo – ENROL)
12:15 – 13:30: Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: ARENA Seminar