Another success of the second edition of the EUVALWEB Jean Monnet Chair was the second final conference. With H.E. Ambassador Ferdinando Nelli Feroci and Prof. Ana Nikodinovska Krstevska, the Chair Course trainees presented and talked about their work. The EUVALWEB Legal Observatory’s Young Observers also gave a presentation on their scientific and research endeavors.

To take a look at the pictures of the day: LINK 

Also, we will release the outcomes in our online Journal EUWEB Legal Essays. Global & International Perspectives (Prof. Teresa Russo as Editor-in-Chief), so stay tuned.

We would like to express our gratitude to all of you for making the first concluding conference of this EUVALWEB edition such a fruitful and stimulating scientific event.

Convened by the organizing committee of Profs. Teresa Russo, Marina Matić Bošković, Jelena Kostić, Ivana Bodrožić, and Valentina Ranaldi, the event was meant to serve as a forum for discussion and comparison of the steps taken and yet to be taken to bring the legal systems of the accession states into line with the criteria of EU membership.

We sincerely believe the event met its expectations and achieved all its goals.

On May 30, 2024, the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research of Belgrade served as a suitable venue for an intense and serious discussion about the possibility of EU enlargement into the Western Balkans.

Great outcomes resulted from the conference proceedings, which were masterfully opened by the welcome speech of H.E. Luca Gotti, the Italian Ambassador to Serbia, as well as from the speeches of the keynote and guest speakers, and young researchers from the academic and professional world, who animated the various sessions of the conference, enriched by the participation of police trainees and representatives of the public and civil society.

Some pictures of the conference day are available at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.965155238734359&type=3

We also wish to thank the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, the Institute of Comparative Law and the University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies of Belgrade for their media coverage of the event:

1) https://www.iksi.ac.rs/galerija_en.html

2) https://iup.rs/en/news/vesti-iz-2024/odrzana-zavrsna-konferencija-u-okviru-jean-monnet-programa/

3) https://www.kpu.edu.rs/cms/akademija/izdvajamo/vesti/9555-odrzana-zavrsna-medjunarodna-konferencija-jeann-monnet-projekta-euvalweb

Conclusively, a publication of the conference proceedings is slated for early 2025.

On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, starting at 9:45 a.m., in Hall 6 DSG UNISA, the 2nd Conclusive Conference of the Jean Monnet EUVALWEB Chair dedicated to “Understanding European Union’s Future through Enlargement” will take place.

After the institutional greetings of the Rector Vincenzo Loia, Prof. Francesco Fasolino (Director of DSG UNISA), Prof. Giuseppe D’Angelo (President of the Didactic Council DSG UNISA) and Prof. Angela Di Stasi (Director of the FSJ Observatory, DSG UNISA, Member of the EUVALWEB Team Chair), and the greetings of the stakeholders, Mr. Michelangelo Pipelnino (Students’ Representative, Member of the Board of Directors, UNISA) and Fiorinda Mirabile (Lawyer, President of the FIDU Committee of Salerno), the Conference will be introduced and chaired by Prof. Teresa Russo (Associate Professor of European Union Law, DSG UNISA, EUVALWEB Chair Holder) and will be animated by the speeches of H.E. Mr. Nelli Feroci (Ambassador, President of the Institute of International Affairs of Rome) and Prof. Ana Nikodinovska Krstevska (Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, Associate Professor of European Union Law, University “Goce Delčev” of Štip, North Macedonia).

This will be followed by a debate session on the different aspects of enlargement by DSG UNISA students: Ilaria Merola and Stefano Zecca (Integration), Pavel Blasone and Fabiana Ciullo (Security), Claudia Annunziata and Luisanna Savino (Values), Giorgio Cropano and Niccolò Jacopo Salerno (Democratic Participation), Giulia Sissi Sabatino (Revision of the Treaties), and the Erasmus students Marina Petropoulou and Thomas Rarris (The Greek Experience). It will then be the turn of the reports on the EUVALWEB Legal Observatory by the Young Observers: Francesco Pio Gramaglia, Camilla Tortora, Carlotta Jannone, Giuseppe Landolfi, Federica Manfredini, Rossella Esposito, Francesco Verderame, Roberta Sanges, Tullia Saturno (DSG UNISA students), followed by a session on the results of the second edition of the Jean Monnet EUVALWEB Chair and the conclusions of Prof. Massimo Panebianco (Emeritus Professor of International Law, DSG UNISA).

For further information, please refer to the attached flyer, also in higher definition: LINK