Partnership with the Zhytomyr Polytechnic (Ukraine) – 4 September 2024

We are pleased to kick off the third edition of the Jean Monnet Chair EUVALWEB with the announcement of a new partnership with the Faculty of National Security, Law and International Relationships of the  State University (Ukraine).
We find even greater significance in this collaboration in light of Ukraine’s EU accession process. As a result, we think that this collaboration will be essential to maintaining and advancing the EUVALWEB Chair goals of increasing awareness and understanding of EU law.
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EUWEB LEGAL ESSAYS. GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, NO. 2/2024 – July 2024

EUWEB Legal Essays. Global & International Perspectives, Issue 2/2024 is out (and completely free)!

The current issue, introduced by the Editorial of Jasmina Dimitrieva and closed by an Afterword of Teresa Russo features:

– essays by Ilina Cenevska, Marieta Safta, Roze Surlovska;
– a focus on judicial cooperation in criminal matters by Fulvio Baldi, Alessandro Di Vico;
– conferences speeches by Francesca Iervolino, Luigi Palmieri.

Go and check it out at the following link: https://www.euweb.org/euweb-legal-essays-2-2024/

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Special Event “Cinema and Law” at Giffoni Film Festival – 24 July 2024

With great pleasure, we are able to wrap up the second edition of the Jean Monnet Chair “Promoting Public Awareness on Enlargement, EU Values and the Western Balkans’ Accession” (EUVALWEB) with a SPECIAL EVENT, presented in association with the Postal Police and the Department of Legal Sciences, Unisa.

The socio-cultural initiative “CINEMA E DIRITTO” (CINEMA AND LAW), which is open to the public and has the support of numerous associations and civil society (Arechi Rugby, A.S.D. Dai-mi Dojo Salerno, ASL Salerno, Associazione Sportello Rosa, Coordinamento Provinciale Giovani, Fondazione Madre Teresa di Calcutta Montecorvino Rovella, Lions Club Salerno Centro, Premio Fabula, Rotaract Salerno, Rotaract Salerno Duomo, Smile Camp) and the contribution of the BCC Campania Centro Cassa Rurale Artigiana, will take place on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at the Sala Blu of the Giffoni Multimedia Valley at 7:45 p.m. as part of the program of the fifty-fourth edition of the Giffoni Film Festival 2024.

The SPECIAL EVENT’s goal is to present additional initiatives, which will be further detailed in a protocol currently being drafted, to raise awareness among young people of the proper use of social media, crime prevention, and knowledge of the law.

The documentary “A voce nuda” by Mattia Lobosco will open the event, which will be hosted by Dr. Elena Scisci of the Giffoni Film Festival’s Artistic Direction. Dr. Giancarlo Conticchio (Salerno Police Commissioner), Prof. Francesco Fasolino (Head of the Department of Legal Sciences, Unisa), Dr. Pietro Rinaldi (President of the Giffoni Film Festival), Dr. Jacopo Gubitosi (General Director of the Festival), Dr. Barbara Strappato (First Executive of the State Police), Prof. Teresa Russo (EUVALWEB Chair Holder, Department of Legal Sciences, Unisa), and Dr. Alessandro Di Vico (Delegate National Association Magistrate), will then animate the debate.

A performance by the musical group Neri per Caso will round off the event.

Please refer to the flyer that is attached for more details.

 

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Book ‘Allargamento e membership dell’Unione europea’ – July 2024

This monograph aims to provide an overview of the European Union’s enlargement policy and how it has affected its membership.

It is the product of scientific research conducted within the Jean Monnet Module ‘EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs’ (EUWEB, 2019–2022) and the Jean Monnet Chair ‘Promoting Public Awareness on Enlargement Policy, EU Values and the Western Balkans’ Accession’ (EUVALWEB, 2022–2025).

The work analyzes the systematic role of enlargement policy in the legal order of the Union (Chapter I), after which it looks at the regulatory bases and application practices that have helped to identify the conditions of membership (Chapter II). The work begins with the various accession processes, which explain the motivations behind this research (Introduction). However, the latter draws attention to a difference between pre- and post-enlargement that the Court of Justice similarly denounced, demanding adherence to Article 2 TEU as the cornerstone of the Union’s and its members’ identity (Chapter III). In conclusion, the book evaluates potential enlargement options that combine treaty reform and accession, based on suggestions made by some European institutions and Member States (Chapter IV).

Find out more at: https://www.ibs.it/allargamento-membership-dell-unione-europea-libro-teresa-russo/e/9791259769503

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EU opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova – 25 June 2024

A first intergovernmental conference at ministerial level was conducted by the EU on June 25, 2024, to begin membership negotiations with Moldova and Ukraine.
The Council approved the Negotiating Framework for the discussions with Ukraine and Moldova on June 21, 2023, in accordance with the revised enlargement methodology. This comes after the European Council decided to begin accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on December 14–15, 2023.
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Pictures of the day – 4 June 2024

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.

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Pictures of the day – 30 May 2024

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.

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2nd Conclusive Conference (II Ed.) – 4 June 2024

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 

 

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Final Conference in Serbia – 30 May 2024

We are very excited because the first concluding conference of the second Jean Monnet EUVALWEB Chair is going to take place. With the participation of distinguished speakers from the academic, diplomatic and professional worlds, as well as civil society and the public, both from Western Balkans and Italy, the conference on “Promoting Public Awareness on the Fight Against Transnational Crimes, the Role of Police and Judicial Cooperation and Respect for Fundamental Rights in the Prospect of the EU Enlargement” intends to provide a forum for the debate on the process of accession to the Union and on the main reforms implemented in the Western Balkan countries, and in the Union in general, for its future.

Link to the full flyer.

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Pictures of the day – 23, 24 & 27 May 2024

With the Workshop on May 23 concerning Enlargement and the Future of the European Union: Values, Democratic Dimensions, and European Parliament Elections and the double appointment of the Conference on May 24 (Comparing Perspectives on the Fight Against Corruption under International, European, and National Law) with Professors Svetoslav Spassov, Erjon Hitaj, and Nikola Saranovic and on March 27 (EPPO: Open Questions) with Dr. Lorenzo Salazar, Prof. Luigi Kalb, and Dr. Palmieri, the fourth Module of the EUVALWEB Chair Course is also coming to a fantastic close.

Professor Teresa Russo and Dr. Stefano Busillo and Dr. Emanuele Vannata (EUVLWEB Tutors) appreciated the broad participation, enthusiasm and high scientific quality of the speeches.

Stay tuned as we still have major plans to announce.
Make sure not to miss them!

Pictures of the workshop:  LINK 

Pictures of the conference: LINK  

Pictures of the seminar: LINK  

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