Provisional programme
Due to uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic, admission to Social Events is subject to any measure as instructed by the Dutch government, the venue and/or event organizer at the time of the XXIX FIDE Congress. Admission to Social Events may, therefore, be limited.
Wednesday 3 November 2021
14:00 – 17:00 Registration of Participants in Congress Venue (The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon (right next to train station Den Haag Centraal Station)
12.30 – 13.00 Welcome Coffee and Tea for the Steering Committee (New Babylon, The Hague)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch of the Steering Committee
14.00 – 17.00 Meeting of the FIDE Steering Committee
17.30 Transfer to the Welcome Reception by foot, meeting point: lounge Babylon Hotel
18.00 – 20.00 Welcome Reception (Hall of the Knights, the Hague)
Thursday 4 November 2021
08.30 – 09.30 Welcome Coffee and Tea and Registration of Participants (The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon)
09.30 – 10.45 Opening Ceremony – Welcome addresses
Corinna Wissels, President of FIDE 2020, State Councillor at the Council of State
Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee and Tea break
11:15 – 12:30 Plenary panel discussion – Fit for the Future: What Role for Europe at Home and in the World?
Caroline de Gruyter, Journalist, Writer and Speaker
Brigid Laffan, Professor and Director, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute
Luuk van Middelaar, Professor, Europa Institute, Leiden Law School
George Papaconstantinou, Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute
Moderator: Amy Verdun, Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science, Leiden
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Working Groups – Session (I)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and Tea Break
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel Working Groups – Session (II)
19:30 – 23:00 YEL Event (venue to be announced)
Friday 5 November 2021
08:30 – 09:30 Welcome Coffee and Tea
09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Working Groups – Session (III)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Working Groups – Session (IV)
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Parallel Working Groups – Session (V)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel Working Groups – Session (VI)
19.00 – 19:30 Transfer to the Kunstmuseum by bus (departure from Hotel New Babylon)
19.45 – 22:30 Walking Dinner Reception at the Kunstmuseum, the Hague
23:00 Transfer back to the Hotel New Babylon
Saturday 6 November 2021
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee and Tea
09:00 – 09:45 Reports by the General Rapporteurs
09:45 – 11:00 Panel Discussion: The Role of Courts in Upholding the EU’s Foundational Values in Article 2 TEU
Susanne Baer, Judge at the German Constitutional Court
Thomas von Danwitz, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Siofra O’Leary, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
David Kosar, Associate Professor, Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University Kees Sterk, Senior Judge and Professor, Maastricht University Moderator: Rick Lawson, Professor, Europa Institute, Leiden University
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea break
11:30 – 11:45 Speech by Laura Kövesi, the European Chief Prosecutor: EU criminal law cooperation and the role of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
11:45 – 12:30 Presentation of the XXX FIDE Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, and final acknowledgements
Alexander Arabadjiev, Future President of FIDE , Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU
Corinna Wissels, President of FIDE 2021, State Councillor at the Council of State
Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
13:00 Closing
