LISBON VERSUS LISBON?
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRY INTO FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS
Workshop at Tilburg University, Netherlands
30-31 August 2012
Conveners: Dr Daniel Augenstein & Prof. Bert van Roermund
Participation in the workshop is free. For further information and registration please contact
D.H.Augenstein@uvt.nl
– CONCEPT NOTE –
The Europe 2020 strategy put forward by the European Commission as a successor to the 2000 Lisbon
Strategy sets out a vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century that ‘shows how the EU can
come out stronger from the economic crisis and how it can be turned into a smart, sustainable and inclusive
economy delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion’. There is thus one ‘Lisbon’
agenda whose primary concern appears the EU’s economic performance in the internal and global market,
depicting economic growth and social inclusion as mutually conditioning. The Lisbon Treaty that entered into
force in December 2009 carries a broader ‘Lisbon’ agenda that, apart from furthering economic integration,
includes the promotion and protection of human rights, democratization, and institutional reform.
The aim of the workshop is to analyse the relationship between these two ‘Lisbon’ agendas, with particular
reference to the relationship between fundamental freedoms and fundamental rights (conflicting,
complementary, mutually conditioning etc.). While, as a first general approximation, ‘Lisbon 1’ and the
fundamental market freedoms may be associated with the economic telos of European integration, ‘Lisbon 2’
and the protection of fundamental rights speak to broader normative and social concerns of the European
polity. At the same time, both fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms stand in a complex relationship
to the political nature of the European integration process.
The workshop brings together scholars from law, philosophy, economics, and cultural sciences. The first
panel considers general institutional and normative aspects of the relationship between EU fundamental
rights and fundamental freedoms. This is followed by four subject-specific panels that focus on the areas of
religion, morality and cultural values; migration and citizenship; workers and consumers; and security.
– PROGRAMME –
30 AUGUST – Cobbenhagen Building, Room CZ 6
14.00 – 14.30
Welcome & General Introduction
14.30 – 15.30
Fundamental Rights & Fundamental Freedoms
The Role of Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Mediating Political Conflicts
in the European Legal Order (Daniel Augenstein, Tilburg University)
Enforcing the Fundamentals: Hungary and the Protection of EU Fundamental Rights (Mark
Dawson & Elise Muir, Hertie School of Governance & Maastricht University)
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30
Religion, Morality, and Cultural Values
From De Facto Secularism to De Jure Secularism: The Relationship between State and
Religion in a Diversifying Europe (Ronan McCrea, University College London)
The Embryo and its Rights: Technology and Teleology (Bert van Roermund, Tilburg
University)
Market Integration versus Cultural Diversity? (Bruno de Witte, Maastricht University)
19.00 Conference Dinner
AUGUST 31 – Cobbenhagen Building, Room CZ 9
08.30 – 09.00
Coffee
09.00 – 10.30
Migration and Citizenship
EU Citizenship in Times of Crises (Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh)
EU Citizenship: The Right to Acquire Rights? (Chiara Raucea, University of Catania)
Making Proper Citizens: What the EU’s 2020 Growth Strategy means for Romani Integration
Efforts (Roosmarijn Buijs & Morag Goodwin, Tilburg University)
10.30 – 12.00
Workers and Consumers
The Effects of European Legislation on the Social and Economic Goals of Europe 2020: a
decision theoretic approach to wage liability regimes in modern Europe (Mijke Houwerzijl &
Terry Wilkinson, Tilburg University)
Social protection and market exposure: the case of work (Emilios Christodoulidis, Glasgow
University)
The Multiple Faces of the European ‘Consumer’: EU Competition and Consumer Protection
Policies before the European Courts (Wim Dubbink & Zlatina Georgieva, Tilburg University)
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch
13.00 – 14.30
Security
Security and Fundamental Rights (Michiel Besters & Milda Macenaite, Tilburg University)
Kadi – The Old Equilibrium Upset (Matej Avbelj, Graduate School of Government and
European Studies, Kranj, Slovenia)
Labour Exploitation: Collateral Damage of EU Policy (Conny Rijken, Tilburg University)
14.30 – 15.00
Concluding Remarks