Recordings

Thursday’s Plenary

Opening Ceremony – Welcome addresses

Corinna Wissels, President of FIDE 2018 to 2021: Welcome to FIDE 2021!
Intermezzo: Poem by Hanneke van Eijken 
Dineke de Groot, President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands: Some observations about the role of courts in dispute resolution and the development of EU law
Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Constitutional Relationships between Legal Orders and Courts within the European Union
Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union: The place of the General Court in the institutional framework of the Union
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, Online video speech

Brexit: Four Legal Lessons

Speech by Paul Craig, Emeritus Professor of English law, Oxford University

Plenary Panel Discussion – Fit for the Future: What Role for Europe at Home and in the World?

Caroline de Gruyter, Journalist, Writer and Speaker
Luuk van Middelaar, Professor, Europa Institute, Leiden Law School
George Papaconstantinou, Professor of International Political Economy, European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance
Moderator: Christa Tobler, Professor of European Law, Europa Institute, Leiden University and University of Basel
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Saturday’s Plenary

Masters of Ceremony:

• Herman van Harten (Secretary General), Judge at the District Court of The Hague
• Jorrit Rijpma (Scientific Programme Officer), Jean Monnet Professor, Leiden Law School

Reports on the Working Group Sessions by the General Rapporteurs

Topic 1:  Anna Wallerman Ghavanini
Topic 2: Orla Lynskey
Topic 3: Pieter van Cleynenbreugel
Moderator: Sacha Prechal, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Panel Discussion: The Role of Courts in Upholding the EU’s Foundational Values in Article 2 TEU

David Kosar, Associate Professor, Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University
Siofra O’Leary, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Lucia Serena Rossi, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU
Kees Sterk, Senior Judge and Professor, Maastricht University
Rajko Knez, President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia
Moderator: Rick Lawson, Professor, Europa Institute, Leiden University  

EU criminal law cooperation and the role of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office

Speech by Laura Kövesi, the European Chief Prosecutor

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 European Union

Closing

Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Corinna Wissels, President of FIDE 2018 to 2021
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Parallel Working Groups

Topic 1: National Courts and the Enforcement of EU Law

Short reflection on the Young FIDE Seminar
Young rapporteur: Sim Haket, Assistant Professor of constitutional law at Utrecht University

Subtopic: Direct effect: Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights / General Principles of EU Law to Private Individuals

Moderator: Sacha Prechal, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union 
General rapporteur: Anna Wallerman 
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Subtopic: Supremacy of Union Law: CJEU and National Perspectives on the Limits of the Principle of Primacy

Moderator: Nina Póltorak, Judge at the General Court of the European Union
General rapporteur: Anna Wallerman
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Subtopic: Effective Judicial Protection: Independence of the Judiciary

Moderator: Daniel Sarmiento, Professor of EU and Administrative Law at the University Complutense of Madrid
General rapporteur: Anna Wallerman
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Subtopic: Effective Judicial Protection: Impact of Union law on National Standing Requirements

Moderator: Hanna Sevenster, State Councillor at the Dutch Council of State
General rapporteur: Anna Wallerman
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Subtopic: Preliminary References

Moderator: Nuno José Cardoso da Silva Piçarra, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
General rapporteur: Anna Wallerman
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Subtopic: The Limits of Mutual Recognition

Moderator: Tamara Capeta, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
General rapporteur: Jurian Langer
Institutional rapporteur: Michal Bobek

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Topic 2: The New EU Data Protection Regime

Short reflection on the Young FIDE Seminar
Young rapporteur: Teresa Quintel, Senior Lecturer at the Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity

Subtopic: (Impediments to) the enforcement of the GDPR

Moderator: Maria Jose Costeira, Judge at the General Court of the European Union 
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey 
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta 

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Subtopic: Beyond NSAs: the role of other actors in developing data protection

Moderator: Hielke Hijmans, Director at the Belgian Data Protection Authority
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta

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Subtopic: Data protection in the pandemic

Moderator: Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou, Professor of European Law and Reform, UCLan Cyprus
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta

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Subtopic: Public policy, public security and national security

Moderator: Irmantas Jarukaitis, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta

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Subtopic: EU data protection law in a global context

Moderator: Cecilia Alvarez, EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Facebook
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta

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Subtopic: AI, Gatekeepers and Data Altruism: situating data protection amongst new regulatory initiatives

Moderator: Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
General rapporteur: Orla Lynskey
Institutional rapporteurs: Herke Kranenborg and Anna Buchta

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Topic 3: EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy

Short reflection on the Young FIDE Seminar
Young rapporteur: Daniel Mandrescu, PhD Fellow at the Europa Institute of Leiden University 

Subtopic: Market definition and market power in digital markets

Moderator: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair in Competition and Regulation at London School of Economics and Political Science 
General rapporteurs: Nicolas Petit and Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 
Institutional rapporteur: Thomas Kramler 

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Subtopic: Vertical restraints and digitisation

Moderator: Elske Raedts, Principal Associate Antitrust, competition and trade, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
General rapporteurs: Nicolas Petit and Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Institutional rapporteur: Thomas Kramler

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Subtopic: Data and EU Competition

Moderator: Anna Gerbrandy, Professor of Competition Law, Europa Institute, Utrecht University
General rapporteur: Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Institutional rapporteur: Thomas Kramler

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Subtopic: Algorithmic decision making and EU competition law

Moderator: Alexander Kornezov, Judge at the General Court of the European Union
General rapporteur: Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Institutional rapporteur: Thomas Kramler

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Subtopic: Interplay regulation and EU competition law

Moderator: Assimakis Komninos, Partner, White & Case LLP
General rapporteur: Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Institutional rapporteur: Thomas Kramler

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Subtopic: The opportunities and challenges of mergers and acquisitions in the digital economy

(Session organized and sponsored in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy)
Moderator: Patrick van den Berghe, Legal Counsel to the Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Panel members:
Cristina Caffara, Senior consultant for Charles River Associates
Helen Gornall, Partner at De Brauw, Blackstone Westbroek
Bjorn Vroomen, Head of Unit at The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets
Kay Jebelli, Competition & Regulatory Counsel, CCIA Europe
Hans Schenk, Emeritus Professor, Utrecht University

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